This season’s heavy snowfall on the mountains around Barga was probably one of the reasons behind a new project put forward this month by the Rifugio Alpino Giovanni Santi up at Renaio in Loc. La Vetricia. The recently renovated rifugio (article here), which has beds for 15 people, is well frequented during the summer and the wild mushroom – porcini season but it is generally closed during the winter as the roads around it are blocked by the snow. Using the concept of making medicine from poison – the very fact that the roads are blocked with snow is now the central point for this new project. The idea is simple – using those roads for ski di fondo – cross-country skiing
A series ski routes joining up to San Pellegrino and beyond. In fact a whole new infrastructure during the winter months for outdoor leisure pursuits using the Rifugio Alpino Giovanni Santi as a base. Click on the link below to listen to a brief interview with Dario Pierantoni, the President of ASBUC who explains in greater detail (in Italiano) the project using the 5 kms of road from Renaio to Vetricia and the 20 kms of road further on past the refugio as skiing routes.
Maria Angela e Michele can be contacted at the Refugio 392 5662462
Dario Pierantoni, the President of ASBUC can be contacted at 346 8566096
– Good bye to the council water man … Dario Pierantoni, the geometra in the Uff.Technico in the Comune who has been looking after the water for Barga for the last 35 years has finally this morning handed in his sponge and taken up a well deserved retirement. Here he is standing outside Aristo’s bar and just after being presented with a signed print by Tullio Bonuccelli
Click on the link below to hear this interview (in Italiano)
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