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Incontrai il giovane Zlatko mentre ero intento alla preparazione della gita sul Sabotino.
Ricordo che in quella occasione si era innescata una travolgente reazione a catena. Un amico di Gorizia mi aveva portato sul suo monte prediletto, io stupito dalla sua aspra bellezza ne ero rimasto perdutamente ammaliato e poi, parlandone in giro, avevo involontariamente trasmesso l'infatuazione a parecchi amici della Trenta Ottobre. A quel punto, il ricavarne una gita sociale era diventata una scelta quasi obbligata. Numerosi Subsequent visits were all very beautiful and rewarding, also extended to the scenic meadows of Corada. I needed to finish the journey well, a good end-gita where hikers could find a comfortable place to eat.
Thus, some cases and for some theoretical calculations, one day I reached the secluded village of Plava d'Isonzo and his restaurant across the bridge. I entered the room gingerly, trying that particular set of fear and attraction that I often feel when m'avventuro on those paths, especially humans, who do not know yet where I conduranno. A "ena kava," I ask to start but then I introduce myself and explain, the entire famiglia già convenuta, sul perchè avrei bisogno da loro di qualche buon consiglio.
Dopo mezz'ora la situazione è di molto cambiata: mi ritrovo che, salutati affettuosamente dalla madre, sto salendo sulla jepp condotta dal padre, assieme al figlio che, in stentato italiano già mi confida, fotografie alla mano, di quali monti si è finora più innamorato. Abbiamo a lungo cercato un vecchio sentiero ormai sopraffatto nell'uso dalla strada asfaltata che volevo cercare d'evitare. E fu così che, mentre scendevamo insieme lottando con istintiva intesa contro il bosco abbandonato e inselvatichito, ho potuto conoscere il giovane Zlatko e tutto il suo buon carattere. Non è stato facile for us to get out of that tangled jungle new path that did not have any more useful for my trip. In the end, as he proudly showed me the church frescoes of his country, we were both scratched, wet and losers but in the end but also happy because we had found an easy way out to become good friends.
One month after the trip on Sabotino, the best among those I have so far held, it was concluded successfully in the "restaurant near the bridge on the Isonzo. Among the same people snaked my initial amazement and admiration for the great beauty of the route that had already accomplished and talked of going back with family and friends. In the usual confusion of departure just managed to say goodbye to my dear parents, his friend Zlatko instead, to thank him for everything, I gave her a nice card dolomite, which can do that then I could fantasize and dream. He returned my gift making me an unexpected proposal: "Shall we go together on the most beautiful hill near my house?"
forget it, other projects, other mountains, the daily city life with its commitments I was distracted. And instead, one morning the phone rings and resent the sweet mother's voice inviting me on his behalf, to go with him on no less than Black Mountain, above Kobarid. Easy guess what was my answer.
Two days later, driven by enthusiasm for a great trip that probably did not anticipate more, I find myself at four in front of the restaurant Plava, a place that has become familiar to me. So the happy meeting with Zlatko and his contemporary country, the magical form of a strange trio a little crazily, late at night, goes off. My car Dresenza to leave it and then you go in Jepp Lepena Valley and from there to the first light of dawn, our excursion in the mountains can begin.
It 'just that we go into the woods and are already in trouble, yet the path is not harder than many times, perhaps it is because of the intense dialogue between us, made fun of verbs in the infinitive and research to make sense, caused by their continuous curious questions. Almost suddenly we come to the large, modern sanctuary. The sun has not yet risen over the high mountains, but is there already a lot of movement. I feel again the charm derived from place, language and unknown people but no fear because I know to be considerate with two companions. We were only given a short rest and then off, to reach the nearby glacial lake, which I think is even more enchanting as I had imagined. The three usual photo, made in pairs alternate, I do understand that the agreement between the three of us is becoming more consolidated. Arrivati ad un vasto pianoro, il monte Nero, illuminato dal sole nascente, mi appare molto alto e lontano e ci sollecita a riprendere il cammino.
Ora s'inizia a salire sul serio: il sentiero non è difficile, ma in costante, discreta pendenza. Ad un bivio ci concediamo una piccola pausa, scambiandoci la rispettiva merenda. Loro, forse sorpresi di vedermi arrancare ancora bene mi propongono, insinuanti, se voglio fare un'altro monte in supplemento; io, disinvolto nell'apparenza ma incerto nel mio interno, spregiudicato assecondo l'idea. E' da un bel pò che si va sempre su, ora fra noi si parla molto meno. Il nostro è proprio uno strano trio: loro due, che sommando gli anni non arrivano at my age, rise with the handbrake on, deer-like agility, I, I engaged the low, slow down a bit but doggedly continued to sweat and go up. When you finally reach the top, from large boulders shocked by a senseless war of mine, I sense that we arrived at Red Mountain. In fact, the Black Mountain, surrounded by a beautiful scenery of mountains, I still seems far away, beyond a deep saddle. Rusty barbed wire, a plaque with a dedication, a lot of steps carved into the rock remind me, in practice, seen in old photos of a recent book After the war we still have to suffer the saddle for the last climb uphill, which I think you never have to end.
But fatigue disappears when you finally reach them there, atop Mount Black: pleased with the successful company, we shake hands with joy. From here the view is really beautiful: I can hardly even recognize the known profiles of my great mountains, which seem to be reduced to many small bumps that move a huge circular el scenario you were having a beautiful lake in two hours ago, now seems just a tiny spot blue. And to me, 'a moment of ill-concealed, intense emotion, they understand that it is entirely genuine and are, in turn, happy.
The ascent to Mount Black has just finished and already the concern begins to descend. Just below the summit there is another retreat: despite the odds, is large and welcoming. There is a lot of people coming from other directions, there are the inevitable Trieste that I can speak my dialect, is the fraternal joy that comes from the common love for the mountains. But there is also the green valley, the low and away, with no way out that we now reach.
to descend along the trail of war is marked and easy, it only takes lots of patience. We are walking the company immersed in a magnificent mountain setting, happily chatting about many things. Suddenly, however, ask me, apologetically, to be able to remove a bit: I am disappointed when I see them disappear, double speed, more and more down headlong. Soon after, however, rebuke, while they are contemplating and studying, all serious and focused, a hard wall that sooner or later would face. "Do not tell my mother, or cares," he implores Zlatko: I, knowing wise, reassure him that was enough and I see these few hours together to get involved in such fraternal complicity mountain. Here, we finally arrived at the bottom, to Dresenza. I am a little tired, but no matter, to conclude this long trip just hours using the car and gasoline.
Now I'm back in front of the restaurant Plava: I arrived after dark, with the darkness I will go away. A beautiful day in the mountains is ending and now is the time of dismissal. The strange trio is separated EXPECTING some other trip, his mother, noting that his son no longer speaks Italian with the verbs in the infinitive, smiling thanks me, dad invited me inside for one last toast. I accept with pleasure and I feel good that it made me not get into the restaurant, but in the family kitchen.
returned to Trieste, the usual life goes on: home, work, other fine outings, but the Black remains on the mountain for me the special.
A colleague who appreciates only the sea often tells me, as a joke, do not understand why I love going to the mountains and exhorts me, given the age, to leave. Of course if I think of how many times, scouring the woods, I scratched, wet, lost, or the panoramic summit, which has long dreamed that after hours of effort fell just when I reach the fog, and ticks with which the karst is returning my love, I can not Darge wrong. But then my mind goes back to the great silence of the forest that soothes me when I'm alone with myself, or the sandwich when I taste than happy with a few friends that we have reached the goal, or when the cheerful confusion that reigned in Thirty percent of us went for a walk on the Carso. It 'hard to explain to others their subtle but intense emotions and the colleague I can not give a clear answer.
Another year has passed and the same thing happened with the Sabotino was repeated with Mount Black The Thirty October has scheduled a trip to my favorite mountain, I, with the excuse of having to visit are back to retrace the journey with my closest friends Trieste, soon there will be our official tour. Zlatko I contacted and convinced to take the best ones at the top along a bold climbing. When we meet again up there on top of our hill and fraternally happy we'll hold my hand again, I will invite him to come with us to my next trip, in val Montanaia. Vista la mia età e la bravura dovrò aspettarlo alla base, ma sarò egualmente soddisfatto quando lo sentirò suonare da lassù la campana del campanile più bello del mondo. Spero che lui accetti, spero che le due gite riescano bene e tutti ne siano contenti, spero che questo mio discorso, fatto di magica intesa con la gente che incontro, non debba mai esaurirsi. Mi basta che tutto questo continui ancora così, in modo sempre uguale e sempre nuovo, finchè mi resterà la voglia e la forza.
Forse ho trovato la risposta che potrei dare al collega: amo andare in montagna perchè essa è ancora così forte da riuscire ad innescare intorno e in me , An overwhelming chain reaction.
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