Monte Forato Hike Part 1

Today we did the first big hike of the trip - Monte Forato in the Apuan Alps! I was so happy to be in mountains again! I love hiking up and seeing all the things! The trail was marked as hard which usually means technical so I wasn’t sure if we would actually do the whole thing, but it was fine. Not even as difficult as some trails were have done in other countries so that was good. The hike starts in this tiny town and we got what we thought was the last parking spot in the parking lot, though when we came back at noticed an upper lot as well (there had been no one parked there this morning). The town was super tiny, but very pretty with the running through it. The first part of the hike was up to a ridge, mostly in forests with occasional breaks to see the views! And lots of old abandoned buildings. It started raining while we were hiking up, but it didn’t make it to us as the trees covered us, but we could see the ridge where we were going and it looked likes blue skies so we walked until we got to the ridge before we ate lunch and the views were amazing! You could see the valleys on either side and all the mountains! And no rain! I was glad it wasn’t warmer today as the hike up was hot, but there were breezes and at the top it was perfect temp for sitting in the sun. When we started the hike the one mountain had clouds on it, but once we got up there the clouds had cleared up, but you could see rain in the distance then. After lunch we headed off along the ridge to hike over to Monte Forato!Läs mer