Menstruation And Anor

' s a month and a half do not return in the mountains ... Snow now there will be 'bit, but I' would like to round off the season. I seem to have left it unfinished.

search of information. The site Over The Top tells me that last Sunday (June 8) is still skied on Wednesday Calderone and 'last year (June 11) you could still ski on Monte Corvo.

I call Leo. And I do not recommend. According to him I can find at most a few snow-language full of earth and stones on which I massacre ski ... to limit the Channel Source Rionne (Channel Y) will 'probably still be skiable.

So this morning, after a dramatic wake up at 5:30, I start at a time of Campo Imperatore, the destination channel Y.

When I get ahead of Prena dell'Infornace and I stop and give a peek through the binoculars at the Canal. I can not understand if and 'interrupted or not, the fact is that snow ends up much more' at the bottom of the top ... and the decision 'soon taken, I continue going to the Cauldron.
then goes by car to the top of the cable car station. From there the phone Rifugio Franchetti Luca Mazzoleni and ask if there is 'enough snow for skiing: the answer, fantastic, and' "depends on the motivation! There are two breaks but you can ski from the top of the hut." Motivation and 'a lot, so I bard



and birth, despite Campo Imperatore looks like':

and I will not be discouraged even from the south side of Big Horn:

an hour and a half are at the top, and the basin of the Cauldron and 'actually full of snow to the scree:

The snow and 'a wonderful firn. Within minutes, too few, are Franchetti:

A sandwich, a cup of coffee 'and a nap after they date back to the glacier, and from this photo you value most in' the skiing I did:

and also discover that it is not the only one ski!

URL for this can see the path I followed.

time to return to the top of Corno Grande and the time and 'now ruined: and they' raised a strong wind and thick cloud reduces visibility '. I wanted to look at the Maiella with binoculars, and of course I can not. I should have done in the morning, but the sight of snow-covered valley I had passed all other thoughts!
I take off my boots and I put his shoes comfortable for walking. I begin to fall for the Direttissima, but after a few meters back out. I'll be back up and decide to go down the West Ridge, which I did once many years ago.
Only half 'of the ridge I realize that the snowfield on the right, leading to the basin and the Invalides' sciabilissimo ... Oh well, 'patience

After a long downhill, finally arriving at the car, I bow to the house, with the mountains behind me pulled out his angry face:

In conclusion: I did 1500m climb with skis on the backpack, 1000 meters of descent ever on skis on the backpack ... skiing for all 500 meters of altitude ... and even go on! It
and 'worth it?
The only possible answer is' It depends on the motivation!

Of course, if I parked in Prati di Tivo instead of 'Campo Imperatore, and I took the chairlift to the Virgin Mary ... I reduced the ascent and descent of 900 meters to ski 400. But you put on??

Mario