Monte Forato Hike Part 2

The ridge walk looked kind of crazy from afar, but wasn’t too bad when we were doing it. In the first photo you can see some red markings in the rocks in the middle - that is the trail! The walk over to Monte Forato was all exposed and we saw some little roe deer on the path! They let us get pretty close before running away so that was fun. Just below the peak there is this rock arch that people were rock climbing on that was pretty fun! Then at the top a giant cross (and there were a ton of people there when we got there!). We looked around at the views and over where we ate lunch the mountain tops were in dark clouds and it looked like it was raining! We had a break at the top and when we started walking again it stated raining on us! I thought oh no…cause I had forgotten my rain jacket and I was hoping we would get lucky with the weather…I just thought well I guess I will get wet cause there is nothing else I can do…but as we started walking the rain stopped. It went down the valley we passed so it didn’t get us! Plus it turned into a thunderstorm so I was really glad it wasn’t right where we were (and that we were going down and getting into forest again in case it did start thunderstorming over us) as you could hear loud rumbling thunder echoing in the mountains. That was kind of fun since it wasn’t coming towards us!

The first part of the climb down was through rocks and kind of steep and we took a break at one point and all the people that had been at the top were very slowly making their way down and I thought this is going to take forever waiting for everyone to go down the steep rocky parts one by one…but luckily it was just a very short section before we got to a trail junction for the trail coming up the other side of the mountain and everyone went down there. There were very few people that went up/down the way we did. We only really started seeing people around Monte Forato! I was glad we took the way we did as it was not busy! And the rest of walk back down was through the forest and a gentle path along the river (which had a lot more water than this morning! It was so loud!).

All in all this was a great day! We got super lucky we didn’t get rained on, the temp was perfect for hiking, and we got incredible views! Tomorrow is another town day so we shall see what we see, but I loved being up in the mountains today!Baca lagi