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5 days ago
A friend and acquaintance needs to personally deliver some confidential electronic documents I need to work on; but he also wants to go for a walk. Given the likely beautiful day, after weeks of rain, we agree to meet on the banks of the Arno, with the help of the transponder.
Having reached the Madonna
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January 22, 2026
A journey in the footsteps of Don Milani, remembering the 1944 Padulivo massacre; with a crossing to San Martino a Scopeto.
A journey through the history of the last century, along a dirt road, sheep track, and woodland path.
The Villa Emma farm in San Martino a Scopeto is beautiful, no matter how you
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January 18, 2026
My legs are a bit stiff from the past few days. So, leaving the skins behind, it's best to take a walk to let the lactic acid flow.
There's nothing better, given the beautiful, almost spring-like day (a pleasant morning breeze of 6-10 km/h; strengthening in the afternoon and cold at 15-20 km/h), than
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January 3, 2026
A beautiful hike along paths and sheep tracks among the hills and knolls of Montebonello. This was done in the afternoon, with a few clearings, a south-westerly wind, and constant cloud cover.
The section of trail between Casa Pozzo and Avacchio requires orienteering skills, as it is often engulfed and
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December 30, 2025
A walk through the Rufina hills in the late afternoon.
Uphill on sheep tracks and paths; on the way back, on a dirt road, given the approaching darkness.
The countryside I traversed is gradually abandoned and left uncultivated. As a result, the paths, once wide and connecting the various farms, are now
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December 27, 2025
An easy hike along agroforestry and pastoral paths, through forests of holm oak, oak, ash, cypress, and various conifers, amidst constant cold gusts of north wind, mitigated by the dense forest. Signage is sparse, as many of the wooden directional signs no longer have their original lettering, having
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December 11, 2025
The idea was to retrace, to see its current state, a high-altitude trail (Ol Sentèr di Tinche), which enters the heart of Al Burlù (Burlù Valley) and descends from Botta Bassa to Endine. The trail isn't marked on maps, but I reopened it a few decades ago. It's very picturesque and spectacular in some
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December 5, 2025
A walk on the gravel paths, where half a century ago I often trained in preparation for Skyrunning races.
Today I wanted to retrace part of the trail that crosses the scree slopes of Al Burlù (Val Burlù) and Al Grömèla (Val Grumella), which, morphologically, are very different from half a century ago
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November 28, 2025
A short walk in the warmth of the sunny woods overlooking Lake Endine, observing the butcher's broom (Ruscus aculeatus) and the first blooming hellebores (Helleborus niger), once used in herbal medicine to combat mental illness and madness.
Following the forest path that leads to Ranzanico, then turning
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a day ago
I've always enjoyed walking in woods, preferably large ones; perhaps because, as a young man, I was accustomed to hunting mushrooms in the Squadra forest.
Pine, fir, and beech forests are my favorites: pine and fir forests in summer, beech forests in winter. Although I also enjoy coppices of oak, downy
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