Apuan Alps
Pania della Croce - nations left
From Saturday 14 to Sunday, May 15, 2011
PRE-REGISTRATION
In order to be able to book early Rifugio Del Freo (mt.1.180) to places in the Apuan Alps Mosceta open a Pre-registration among the members CAI.
PRE-REGISTRATION FEE €. 10.00 .=
Having already made contacts with the Manager of the Shelter and, having laid down for about 15-20 members, we committed to knowing the actual number of participants in the excursion as soon as possible because the demands are many CAI huts and beds are not many.
The reservation is made for half board (dinner - bed - breakfast) at a cost of €. .= 30.00 for members and €. .= 36.00 for non members. These costs will rise in the share of organizational €. .=. 5.00 Excludes extras (drinks, coffee and cake).
non-members who wish to participate in the excursion are required at the time of booking to pay the sum of €. .= 5.00 for each day of travel (cost per activation insurance) and communicate their personal data: Name, address and date of birth.
EQUIPMENT NECESSARY TO STAY IN SHELTER
slippers or shoes to be able to access the spare bedrooms;
sleeping bag / sheets and pillowcase for a pillow or sleeping bag and pillowcase (required);
towel;
The refuge has disposable sleeping bags at a cost of €. .= 5.00 for those unable.
We notify all those who wish to participate in the excursion that the Pre-registration fee will be deducted from the balance.
The participation fee is €. .= 35.00 for members and €. .= 51.00 for non members.
Registration will begin from Thursday 3 March 2011 at the headquarters .
The fee payable is €. 15.00 .=. The balance is due no later than Thursday May 5, 2011 at the headquarters and always will be €. .= 10.00 (€. .= 20.00 less than the sum of €. .= 10.00 Pre-registration). for non-members the fee is €. .= 30.00 (includes two days of insurance) and the balance will be €. .= 11.00 (€. .= 21.00 less than the sum of €. .= 10.00 Pre-registration), with the usual Members of the arrangements.
PROGRAM:
Meeting at the parking lot of the great railway station at 06:45 on Saturday 14 May and departure at 7:00 Autosole way to Florence. Continue on the Florence-sea to the sling of Lucca. Output of Camaiore.
INFO:
any questions members may receive it every Thursday from 21.00 hours to 23.00 hours at the headquarters. The other day the phone will be active in the Subsection with the following number:
- 342-0037898
From one hour before departure and throughout the period of the excursion will depend on the cellular Subsection.
RESERVATIONS:
The participation fee is €. .= 35.00 for Members, which includes half board at the refuge and the share of organizational €.
.= 5.00 for non-members, the fee is €. .= 51.00 and includes half board, the share number and organizing two days of insurance.
are reminded participants that in half board, excluding the extras (drinks, coffee and cake). Please also respect the demand for equipment needed to stay in the Refuge.
The balance must be made, at no later than Thursday May 5, 2011 .
PATH:
Day
Leave the car at the Passo Croce (mt.1.147), run through a beautiful path to high ground in the woods and meadows that will pass through the abandoned town of Fociomboli. We will continue therefore to Rifugio Del Freo (mt.1.180) located in a valley near the mouth of Mosceta.
300 meters difference in height. Descending 260 feet. Travel time 3.30 hours. Difficulty E
Day
from Rifugio go up to the Pania della Croce (1859 m.) where we can admire a 360 °. If we are lucky with the weather, perhaps with a light north wind, we could see a great show, from the Maritime Alps to all the islands of the Versilia and all the way to Corsica. On the other side all the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines. Descend from the Valley of Hell to Focetta the strut, and from there go down the chute of Borra. Going on a nice path to walk through the forest of abandoned villages Col di Favilla, point to the path of reunification with the first day Fociomboli.
difference in 1060 meters ascent. Descending 1080 meters: Time 7.00 am. Difficulty EE
YOU REMEMBER THE PARTICIPANTS IN THE NEED 'FOR CLOTHING APPROPRIATE FOR hiking boots and trekking mountain path, on pain of exclusion from the excursion.
To make this more interesting trekking in the Apuan Alps, to the members who participate, I will give some information that may be used to better understand the environment that surrounds us .
The Tuscan Apennine dividing the Versilia Garfagnana and Lunigiana is the magnificent Alps Apuan. The adjective takes its name from the Apuan people who lived in these places, the Ligurian Apuani.
This region is one of the most extraordinary of the world, both for the beauty of the landscape for the many ravages wrought by more than 2,000 years by the man who operates the exploitation of the veins of marble, which are among the most valuable of the entire globe.
These mountains, although lower, are to join the Alpine areas of its nature, rugged ridges, huge chasms and gullies smoothed by water erosion and wind. The many paths found in these mountains were born in the millennia to the needs of the people, either for reasons that work for family needs. Most of them were miners, and when there were no existing modes of transport, to move the tons of marble from the hills towards the valley floor, they did so on the "ways of competing, steep paths carved into the rock. The marble blocks were placed on tree trunks and governed by several ropes to be lowered only by force of arms by hundreds of men, thing were constantly wet with water, and the logs that the strings. You can imagine the danger of that work and numerous injuries and deaths that the work demanded.
The Alps have originated in the Middle Triassic, therefore birth older Apennines. There are of sedimentary origin formed in the marine environment.
In these mountains, and specifically in the Monte Corchia, is the largest of the Italian caves, about 50 km of tunnels and shafts, it is called "Cave of Corchia" paradise of the cave . We on the second day we will reach the peak of Pania della Croce, one of the most popular mountains for hikers, coming down the opposite side to the Valley of Hell, and then spun from the channel where we'll find another paradise of the cave, the "Vetricia" plateau scattered limestone of caves and chasms, at first glance seem to be a lunar landscape. You can find "the Abyss Revel" whose entrance has a width of several tens of meters to communicate with an abyss of 300 meters. The first descent into the abyss was in 1931 by the "Group Speleological Fiorentino. Among the caves for tourists is the "Wind Cave" in the area of \u200b\u200bFornovolasco and "The Cave of Corchia" in the area of \u200b\u200bLevigliani.
The Alps do not have very high peaks, no longer than 2,000 meters, the highest is Mount Pisanino which rises to 1,946 meters.
The Director of Tour
Joseph Flournoy
