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Towards Youla pass
Verso il Col de la Youlaz... sempre dritti... a mezzacosta!
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Herbetet pastures - Refuge Vittorio Sella
Introduction
Spectacular and classic route, perhaps the most beautiful of the group for the observation Gran Paradiso from the side of Cogne. Beauty and aerial crossing that links the pastures to the Refuge is a journey of great satisfaction and panoramic views. Not totally easy itinerary for which, in some places, you need a firm foothold and a head for heights. Some artificial features help overcome the most difficult. Despite its length, can also be considered a variant of access to Rifugio Vittorio Sella, whose "normal" access path is rather monotonous, exhausting and, especially, often clogged with too many hikers. The Vittorio Sella Refuge is often overcrowded and, worse, given the ease of access, is joined by noisy groups who make this place unbearable at times and certainly a far cry from the silence of the mountains and the environment of a National Park which is the Gran Paradiso.
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Lago d'Arpy
Una curiosità per voi che penso conosciate la zona, una curiosità vedere le modifiche in 38 anni.
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Who the hell has ordered these pylons?
One out of the many existing example of the environment breakdown and decline of the landscape in Aosta Valley
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Evening light on the Zerbion after the storm
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Mount Roisetta
Introduction
Second in height only to the Grand Tournalin between the peaks of the Ayas valley, "The Roisettaz" (as it is locally called) is, for hikers, a place of great interest. It is a very long walk but no major difficulties and those who reach its summit are rewarded with a first-class panarama. It is in the far north of the dividing long chain Ayas-Valtournenche and, in particular, dominates the long plateau of debris that looks like a huge balcony from which eastern edge and vertical rock walls dominate the Walloon Cortoz through which runs the access trail the Colle superiore delle Cime Bianche. The ascent route itself is unusual, enlivened by the passage near the beautiful Green Lake and well marked. The crossing of the great plateau debris is definitely an interesting experience also from the geomorphological point of view.
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Lake Blu of Veràz
Introduction
This walk takes place on the river left side of the Val d'Ayas. Could be called the "Way of Walser villages" because goes through picturesque typical residential groupings of the Walser culture and ends in one of the classics and very well known to people places in the Valley: the beautiful and picturesque Blue Lake, at the foot of the large moraine of what was once the Great Glacier of Veràz.
The excursion reels through a territory that was once the delight of hikers: vast forests, grasslands, small pastures, pristine valleys. Today the reality is very different. The writer remembers having traveled this route for the first time in 1967 and today would be difficult to recognize what he saw then. The horrible wounds that were inflicted in the name of the most sinister mountain touristic exploitation in favor of "winter sports" are there, obvious, and unfortunately now indelible. Even today, besides the forest roads, ski lifts, buildings of all types, poles and excavation of land to plot the slopes, a new "train" (officially a funicular) has been added, which, departing from Frachey, leads to Alpe Ciarcerioz that once was one stop of this excursion, and that in the beautiful book "Ayas", text combined with stunning photographs by Gianfranco Bini, was described for the hikers with this pattern: "Breakfast at Crest, aperitif in Resy, lunch at Saint Jacques "...
In this description I have deliberately chosen to limit the testimony of the havoc made through a couple of pictures only, leaving to others the painful task of making further comments about what was and today is not existing any longer...
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