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Hi there! Out with the family this Sunday for a short hike 
. Weather forecast was uncertain, but we decided to have a walk anyway bringing a change of clothes with us. Parked the car in the village (1450 m) and we took the marked trail which follows an old mule track to reach a small hamlet. We continued, parallel to the bottom of the valley, slowly climbing through meadows and then entering the woods. Finally, we exit in the high pasture lands and passed by several huts and a couple of small alpine ponds, reaching 1875 m. Leaving behind the last of hut, where we stopped for a sandwich and some rest, the trail crosses another one, which we followed for a while, taking us along a stretch of the old WWI trenches of the 3rd Italian defensive line (called Cadorna lines), which, fortunately, never saw a battle. Its interesting from an historical point of view, being a very well preserved area of 70 km of trenches, with 88 almost intact artillery positions, 25.000 square meters of bunkers (some open for visits), 300 km of excavated roads and 400 km of mule tracks. No enemy in sight and the only sentries left were the marmots, actually very effective in signalling our advancing with their characteristic whistling . A short prayer to remember the fallen and then back, weather was changing rapidly!
No camp fire for us this time but the knife with me was the Southern Grind Spider Monkey (in rotation this week). Also I carried my relatively new tarp (Foxtarp) and a poncho (Ferrino) which came out useful since we got a couple of showers (kids and wife prefer their K-WAYs, but the poncho is good for me to cover the hiking baby-carrier and the ruck-sack).
We stopped by a farm lodge (agritourism) in the valley for dinner and were lucky enough to see the cheesemaker busy in actually making cheese and we were even allowed in the aging cellar.
Just to share! Happy 4th of July to the American forumites.
. Weather forecast was uncertain, but we decided to have a walk anyway bringing a change of clothes with us. Parked the car in the village (1450 m) and we took the marked trail which follows an old mule track to reach a small hamlet. We continued, parallel to the bottom of the valley, slowly climbing through meadows and then entering the woods. Finally, we exit in the high pasture lands and passed by several huts and a couple of small alpine ponds, reaching 1875 m. Leaving behind the last of hut, where we stopped for a sandwich and some rest, the trail crosses another one, which we followed for a while, taking us along a stretch of the old WWI trenches of the 3rd Italian defensive line (called Cadorna lines), which, fortunately, never saw a battle. Its interesting from an historical point of view, being a very well preserved area of 70 km of trenches, with 88 almost intact artillery positions, 25.000 square meters of bunkers (some open for visits), 300 km of excavated roads and 400 km of mule tracks. No enemy in sight and the only sentries left were the marmots, actually very effective in signalling our advancing with their characteristic whistling . A short prayer to remember the fallen and then back, weather was changing rapidly!
No camp fire for us this time but the knife with me was the Southern Grind Spider Monkey (in rotation this week
). Also I carried my relatively new tarp (Foxtarp) and a poncho (Ferrino) which came out useful since we got a couple of showers (kids and wife prefer their K-WAYs, but the poncho is good for me to cover the hiking baby-carrier and the ruck-sack).
We stopped by a farm lodge (agritourism) in the valley for dinner and were lucky enough to see the cheesemaker busy in actually making cheese and we were even allowed in the aging cellar.
Just to share
! Happy 4th of July to the American forumites.
. Glad you like it! 
