Our plan on Saturday was to head to the northwest corner of Italy (almost to the Swiss border) to check out a hike and see some dam goats. No, I am not swearing, they are literally goats that climb along the side of a dam near Antrona Lake. Well, wouldn't you know that we got 3/4 of the way there and the retaining wall next to the road fell down onto the road so the only road going there was closed (the road is a one lane road each way on the side of a mountain). Well we weren't going to just sit there and wait so we took action and looked for other hiking opportunities. We just started driving up the mountain a ways and came across an interesting trail in the town on Montescheno (I am pretty sure the population was a maximum of 15) and it was probably one of the best hikes I have done. It started out not very technical as we headed from Montescheno to another town on the side of the mountain called Zonca (population 2?), but after Zonca, it was a bit of a mountain climb:
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| Matt and Sasha heading out to the trail |
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| Matt on the trail from Montescheno to Zonca |
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| These signs are all over Italy and indicate the trail direction |
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| Church as we headed up the trail to Zonca |
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| The town of Zonca |
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| A little picnic lunch |
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| A cabin in the middle of the woods! |
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| Sasha and me | | | | |
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After we hiked, we decided to see if the road to Antrona Lake was open (and it was) so we headed there for a quick peek for our next visit. We hear this one is quite a long hike with spectacular views. We didn't stay long, because it started snowing, but we snapped a few pictures and we will be back to see those dam goats!!
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| of course Matt threw snowballs at me! |
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| If you look in the background you can see the dam |
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