2013 Excursion Reports
On the crest of improvisation...
By Redazione Published: 16/12/2013
There we are, the old spirit recovered. You put wings on your feet and start to fly... I mean yes... fly... because walking would be too banal a word to describe what you manage to…
The wings of angels
By Redazione Published: 01/11/2013
The wings of angels give shade when the sun is too strong, the wings of angels shelter you from the rain, the wings of angels are the courage of an autumn morning, the overcoat of…
Memory of a felled trunk
By Redazione Published: 27/10/2013
In the wood there is a felled trunk, I had been with that trunk, years ago... in these very places. Felled for years now, I can't even remember its face. Autumn has taken our leaves…
A million colours, a million thoughts...
By Redazione Published: 18/10/2013
When you walk you think a million thoughts; many of them will be lost for ever, others will resurface as memories, sentences thought up, cut off from any context and devoid of meaning.I took notes…
The mysteries of the full Moon
By Redazione Published: 25/08/2013
You have confused dreams at night, you sleep hot and light, you sleep with one ear pricked, waiting for something to happen... and nothing happens.You know the Moon is out there, in the garden, peeping…
The hysteric, Father Christmas and the engineer
By Redazione Published: 06/03/2013
Costa della Sentina looks utterly overhanging. It isn't.The start of the route is at the mouth of the Valle Majelama. I walked beneath this face twice in the first 2 months of 2013.Climbing up to…
Simply being there...
By Redazione Published: 03/02/2013
For months I've been listening to a Marillion album, its title is really evocative for me... “Happiness is the road” and yet something escapes me. I travel a lot of road, every single day of…
Walking in the "lands of never"
By Redazione Published: 08/01/2013
I'm fighting against the “land of never”; the kitchen clock goes tick-tock and yet the night seems motionless. One after another I see the messages from my hiking companions arriving. Nothing doing... this time the…