Bell's Palsy Causes Cold Exposure

shadow of the bearded vulture in the Vallone del Roc ...

Today the weather was not the best, for which we expected at least a cloudy day but ...
From the A5 towards Aosta we leave the motorway at Ivrea and follow the signs for the first Castellamonte e poi per Ceresole Reale arriviamo a Noasca, superato il paese risaliamo i ripidi tornanti della strada, al secondo spiazzo sulla destra dopo il torrente parcheggiamo l'auto. Dalla palina segnavia iniziamo a salire sull'ampia mulattiera, passiamo sotto a una grossa roccia e costeggiati dei ruderi, attraversiamo un tratto erboso per poi sbucare sulla strada asfaltata nei pressi di Balmarossa di Sopra. Percorriamo un breve tratto di strada asfaltata in salita per poi abbandonarla all'altezza di un cartello di divieto di caccia, seguiamo il sentiero a destra, passiamo accanto ad una cappella arrivando ad un piccolo parcheggio dove termina anche la strada, volendo si può lasciare l'auto anche qui. Dalla palina segnavia iniziamo a percorrere la bella mulattiera paved slowly goes up the valley of the Roc, on the way up you pass through some villages from the typical mountain architecture that inspired the valley, besides the features stone houses, with attached "crutin" to keep milk and cheese, is interesting for the washing of Fragno 1441 m and 1585 m Chapel, the frescoes on the houses of 1525 m Varda, the oven stone me Mola 1600 1591 m Maison school, now closed, but still retains the classroom with wooden benches and old blackboard, with a bit of fantasy through the window you can also see the students intention to follow the lesson ...
After a short descent we reach 1567 m Potes, skip the next bridge over the river and continuing Roc to come up to the beautiful waterfall of Roc, which during the winter is completely frozen, we decided to go back to the bridge to the village of Borgo Vecchio 1598 m, with the characteristic church, where we stop to eat. To retrace the same route back to the township Fragno 1441 m, after the pole trail we leave the trail and bring us close to an old ruined house leaning against the cliff of the mountain, the trail is not marked but it is still detectable after a short climb to cross the river passing over a concrete barrier, carefully go down the other side helped by an iron ladder. After a stretch in falsopiano we continue to climb coming to cross the trail that goes to shelter Noaschetta, this section of trail is not particularly easy on the way we met some specimens of deer that we were running around, but the biggest surprise was when Daniel spotted a bearded vulture or commonly known as the bearded vulture, we flew over a couple of times a few hundred feet from our heads, is the third time that I'm lucky to see it in its natural habitat and fails to move me every time ... The trail loses altitude with a few long switchbacks, arrived at a crossroads continue on the path to the right signposted for Balmarossa, we go into the woods following the red paint marks on trees, arrivati al torrente lo attraversiamo su alcune passerelle in legno e con una breve salita rieccoci di nuovo al parcheggio di Balmarossa, da qui ripercorriamo il medesimo itinerario fatto alla mattina.
In questa parte del Parco Nazionale Gran Paradiso ho passato molte delle mie vacanze estive, luoghi unici, dove è la natura è l'attore principale, mentre l'uomo può solo fare da comparsa...

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