What a sight the two days spent in the high cheese immediately after the last weekend (19-20 July 2010)! Together with Henry
Macciantelli, AE (Companion of Hiking) CAI Bologna, I inspected the path forward for the weekend of 18-19 September 2010 to shareholders of CAI in the vicinity of Mount Cusna called "the Giant", 2120 m (RE), second highest of the Tuscan -Emiliano (see the 2000 book, ch. 3). There are so direct drive early in the morning at a time of Ligonchio - the birthplace of This Mortal Coil, ... so to speak - and here we have trod the boot up the ridge that ascends Mount (1781 m) and then grafted on the watershed between Emilia and Tuscany, culminating in Mount Sill (1874 m, see photo).
Hence, galloping away from a riot of flowers of all kinds along the path 00, we left from time to time just to go any higher without exception on the roughness of the ridge (Mount Soraggio, The Leek, M. Ravaianda, M. Castellino), up to the Monte Prado, 2054 m (RE / LU), the third highest of the Tuscan-Emilian (see the 2000 book, ch. 3). From the Prado we went on the shore of Lake Bargetana, where it reflects the long ridge of Cusna (see photo) and after 8 hours of walking and a total of over 1400 m in altitude, we calmed the Rifugio Cesare Battisti CAI Reggio Emilia, 1761 m, in places Lama Lite.
A nice shower to take away sweat and dust off. Then a rich dinner, made with vegetable soup, ham and barley, polenta and braised, apple pie and chocolate, all washed down with good red wine (Chianti would say). To end the evening we also glory in the luxury - led by the managers - to Berci a mulled wine in the moonlight at the Passone (1845 m) saddle between the ridge of Vallestrina Cusna Alpe (1901 m) practically the ankles of the Giant ...
The next day, another exciting day in which we did not miss anything.
Baptists Since we galloped like horses Ventasso "along the 3 km and passes the crest of Cusna - almost all above 2000 m - one of the repeated and insistent ringing of the many marmots that we have not failed to photograph (see photo). Having reached the summit after climbing easily the famous "Cusna of rocks", we plunge headlong down the ridge to the north lawn of Sarah, where - in the shade of a beech secular - we ate a frugal lunch.
Then off again down in the great beech tree, which has released two spectacular mushrooms, one of which - found by myself - it weighed two ounces and a half (see photo). So we have arrived at the confluence of Canal and Ditch Lavacchiello Lama Horses and the latter going for a hundred yards little did we get in front of one of the many wonders that nature in this wilderness area exemption: The Falls Lavacchiello. Here, given the heat, I and Henry we could not resist: a look of understanding and carefully we dived into the icy waters of the pond under the waterfall, as in the advertising of bath-foam than once (see photo). The water temperature, initially paralyzing, it has become more bearable and I was even given a few strokes to style in the frog and the roar of splashing and they rush for more than twenty meters bypassing the mighty banks of sandstone-rock that extends from Cusna.
Finally, after an interminable descent down the valley and Pop (throats in dialect reggiano) Ozola, we finally returned to the car and we allowed ourselves a rich and refreshing drink for three settings of the "Fountain 'DLO Scudlìn "at the ENEL of Ligonchio. What more do you want?
Giovanni Mazzanti