2012-02-04
Snow-shoe hiking!
This day me and some friends on the tour guide hiking-course hiked up on the slopes around Falterona, from Castagno d'Andrea up to Borbotto, trying out some exciting snow-shoes. We walked around 11 k with 600 m of altitude "climbing", under constant snow-falling, which made the landscape looking like a winters fairy tale. A link with all my GPS-data you can find here. I have downloaded a map with the plotted out route we hiked:
It was to much snow to make it all the way up to mountain top of Falterona (1600 m above sea level), but we made it all the way to Borbotta, where the river Borbotto starts. With all the snow which was fallin we wouldn't have seen so far from Falterona, so we saved that to a sunny clear day instead. Falterona is a magic place, with the beginning of river Arno, some old Etrushian settlements, and views which on a clear day takes far out on the meditaranean sea, with islands like Elba, Corsica and Sardinia in sight.
Pictures of the magic landscape and some of my fellow hiking classmates:
Photos by Alessio
To walk with these snow-shoes you to walk a little bit differently, like wearing diapers like a 1-year old... but they helped when we walked through 40-50 cm of snow. I wouldn't probably have thought of even try to walk without snowshoes in conditions like this. Whe it was really steep on the way down the snow-shoes functioned almost as mini-ski's, sliding down like a new-born skier almost.
The author in question:
Photo: Samuele
Ciao,
Leif
This day me and some friends on the tour guide hiking-course hiked up on the slopes around Falterona, from Castagno d'Andrea up to Borbotto, trying out some exciting snow-shoes. We walked around 11 k with 600 m of altitude "climbing", under constant snow-falling, which made the landscape looking like a winters fairy tale. A link with all my GPS-data you can find here. I have downloaded a map with the plotted out route we hiked:
It was to much snow to make it all the way up to mountain top of Falterona (1600 m above sea level), but we made it all the way to Borbotta, where the river Borbotto starts. With all the snow which was fallin we wouldn't have seen so far from Falterona, so we saved that to a sunny clear day instead. Falterona is a magic place, with the beginning of river Arno, some old Etrushian settlements, and views which on a clear day takes far out on the meditaranean sea, with islands like Elba, Corsica and Sardinia in sight.
Pictures of the magic landscape and some of my fellow hiking classmates:
Photos by Alessio
To walk with these snow-shoes you to walk a little bit differently, like wearing diapers like a 1-year old... but they helped when we walked through 40-50 cm of snow. I wouldn't probably have thought of even try to walk without snowshoes in conditions like this. Whe it was really steep on the way down the snow-shoes functioned almost as mini-ski's, sliding down like a new-born skier almost.
The author in question:
Photo: Samuele
Ciao,
Leif
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