I've never written on this blog, though Luke, very kind, I have always invited. I did not write it to fit your business, mine are very small thing ...! Then recently I had myself a log and took away time .. already closed as well as for the question time, partly because of a few pseudo "anonymous" who amused themselves by writing insults and the like without the courage to sign. ... Patience ! Sometimes better to 'disappear' and the mountains from the truth rather than live behind a video gnawing and chasing people!
I saw that the log is a bit 'firm, and then I had the wish to "live" for a second the "slow" and tell you my resume skiing. ...
were three months that I was still, except for a short walk in ... valsesia stops because of a hip bursitis, exit after returning from high street No. 2 of the Dolomites made last August. ... And we add a little forgiving weather! From mid-September, has not done a decent weekend! We are the 13th consecutive weekend of bad weather! Negative pressure stuff!!
So after the adventures of "sick", after a ride orthopaedist who syringed the hip with cortisone and said "so we'll see in a few years back and then in 20 years to rebuild the femoral head ".... after a few days of ice and also to jag .. etc. ... we say that the desire to try to ski there. ... and how!
It looks .. It reads .... The weather is not forgiving! Saturday is saved, but not all day! At noon we already have a disturbance on the head ... we opt for expensive Germanasca valley, valley side of the Chisone valley (the valley that leads to Sestriere from Pinerolo), the top of the other times ... we have already risen. And as for now tours the "new" we do not have plans .... We run after the beautiful snow! What do we do that often, moving around Italy ... last year we were always Cuneo in ... you now have an invitation to Val Malenco, where I know only the lace stairs, climbed a few years back ... on skis. We'll see where it takes us to the snow and friends!
Saturday we are with members of the expedition in Ecuador, and Gian Matteo Dario. Starting early, at 9 Indritti we are where we are able to park a few meters from the village, where a good sign for no parking except for residents, desist from any place the car in two feet of snow to start!
The cold is understood, there is also a bit 'of wind, and we see the bottom of the valley, as well as the hat of Envie, with blizzard ...
the area to Sestriere is already covered ... we start following the trail up above the pasture, where you can then cut in sparse woods, to get higher and higher.
The intense cold (-8 ° at the start was at 9 am), but no wind, you can not sweat big time! Moroso and members should be, keeping in view. But they are slow, the quadriceps femoris hurts a lot. ... And the track straight (but who has traced caspiterina ?!!?!?!?) and smoothed by the passes does not help! I do track me, even if you draw in 40 cm of powder is not the best with my gambetta ....
Say others to go, until I go up and then I can recover ... they go down, I see them more on
I stop to eat and drink before the end of the sparse forest, I see up there in the wind-swept summit. The Gambetta from 'bother, but I can still continue! Then I see the slope on the right, what is derived by going straight down from the top .... Oh no! At least u still little 'I have to go!
The track goes straight up (?!?!?!) the woods. ... Goes off on the right track, pointing to the center of the slope and then I see the higher, with some zig zag is the slope of farinella beautiful and salt in top of turning off more ... I'll take it! It is not drawn to cool the rest of the people who are going ennemila (Gulliver effect!) Continue straight on the track ... mah! My partners do not see them for a while '... the blue sky in the morning begins to veil themselves, but for now there is no wind, except for some sporadic bursts that manages to top of the hill.
I go slowly, slowly, his breathing slightly labored ... .3 months of inactivity are felt! But the sweetest track makes at least your leg does not hurt ... and then the snow around ... beautiful, almost dusty ... uncut ... leads to rise again!
reach 200 meters from the summit .. fatigue begins to be felt, here I choose .... Or climb to the top of dressing like a penguin, jacket wind, mask, gloves, and maybe first find my partners ... or I stop, Spello, eat / drink or wait and see if I get off. I opt for the second solution: after 3 months, better to go slow at the first exit! The total would be 1100 meters of altitude ... and something for today, it's okay if I stop here! And then the nice slope in front of me ... .. gratifies me already! I do not have time to remove the backpack to remove the skins, which a good gust of wind chill leads me to put everything on me! Luckily they're still away, leave me quiet then remove everything and get dressed, drinking hot tea ... while I look up and look down is going up .. still a lot of people! Many slopes and a few rackets. Su, I get a little farther on, 2 ... From as skiing, I think the first part above is like saying .... The festival of the crust! I see others go down ... just start to feel cold ... the body is well insulated, but not very hands and feet ... well, are those who have suffered most over the years, have taken a lot of freezing cold and some principle other drink ... tea, meanwhile I close my boots .... Members still can not see! But stop there, he begins to be a torture! Hooked on skis, go down a bit here ... the snow is varied: some aspects of flour, some wind slab already hard ... I stop on a Dossetti, sheltered from the wind. ... More waiting ... see the ... other ... other two down. The minutes pass slowly ... the clock is under the jacket, I can not move the layers to see times or more ... do not even know what time it is! We left at 9:20 from the car, but I have no idea how I got in that time .... This time I went in feeling, going at the speed allowed by the legs and Wind does it again ... so cold! I put the backpack and go down a little while .... Here the snow is very nice and powdery! Skiing sank with the boot to the ankle! I will not be able, not to remember how you did that to ringed curves ... but then the body remembers, her legs bend and fold into gestures that are etched into the body and mind .... I do take my hand and I will stop only at the end of the slope, where the forest begins. ... Accidentally! It's over too quickly!
I see from the ridge, where I was a little while ago, members! I recognize them by way of skiing Dani ... front, with the "svirgolare" which on the one hand, Gian Dario further, to look for the steeper sections. ... Teo has back problems ...! I see the contract to plow and too often .... And then there's ... fourth in a few seconds I reached the fourth is a member met at the top, Claudio, who has joined. Teo had seen good .... Leg cramps due to cold!
Go down quick! They tell me that they stopped under a large boulder behind the top ... that most of the people was stopped at a smaller peak-collar ... but from there you could not catch the slopes that we remember so well .... We go down in the woods ... which unfortunately is not as good as over! Here, the steps required, have formed a lot of ruts, holes of those who went on foot (we saw people walking with skis on their shoulders?!? Mah!), Or broke through with snowshoes, or have caught an air hole formed by rhododendrons or stones ... you have to pay much attention! Just get on a water hole and ... wham! One broke his leg in a nothing! In short we are grazing just above the road. ... The last field is split over the country! Meanwhile, the sun is a white ball in the clouds that covered the sky. The machine makes you feel the cold and the wind has come .... It's only 12.50 and should be the hottest time. ... The -5 ° thermometer marks! We are one of the first down. ... Going into account 30 machines including our own ... ... you end up eating! The brazed Praly is always a nice place!
There is fatigue, pain and ice will be tonight, after a hot shower .... But the joy of being up in the midst of what for me is the most beautiful room, the snow ... so here is indescribable in words! 3 months away from the mountains, to look out the window of the house ... numbing feelings, close to the head of the desire to climb the mountains to feel like not having to come to terms with reality .... But then when you go up, when the wind is in front of clouds you, when breathing speeds up, when you start to feel warm despite the bitter cold ... when you look around and it is as if you had never been away ... here! Then everything disappears! The wall created to not feel bad if they should be ... and still the joy, satisfaction, the desire for more snow!
Elena
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