This year the summer season doesn’t want to leave. It’s warm (rather it’s hot), sunny and no rain or snow.
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Honey mushrooms, Costiera dei Cech.
I’m honest: mushrooms, chestnuts and nuts there were also this year, just harvest them up!
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Mountain Qualido, that is the El Captain of Mello’s Valley.
Refuges closed and desert trails. Autumn is the best period to hiking.
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Herbivores follow herbivores!
These goats of Mello’s Valley were really interested in us. Empathy? Feeling?
Perhaps, the herbivores recognize the other herbivores?
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Hiking on Costiera dei Cech, Summit G.A.M.
That’s true, here the day seemed definitely autumnal.
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Drying nuts.
I rarely felt in competition with animals, but this year I competed with squirrels, dormice and other rodents to get first to harvest the nuts. Sorry my rodent friends, I know, you needed more than me!
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Valle dell’Oro.
Only the yellow grass and long shadows meant that it was autumn.
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The snake.
I no longer have any doubts: on the Costiera dei Cech there are truly amazing places!
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Hotel Qualido.
Why settle for a five-star hotel when you can sleep under a thousand star sky!
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Bath or just a little bit of thirst?
The meadows near the St. Bernardo Church, on the Costiera dei Cech, in a hot October day.
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Valle dell’Oro, Pizzo dell’Oro and golden grass.
…up to 2700 m. at the end of October in short-sleeved t-shirt!
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