Unusual Peaks

I love unusual peaks. The ones that are difficult to reach where you have to search for the path, use your intuition and unearth tracks obliterated by the vegetation or by landslides. Sometimes they can be confused with the faint tracks wild animals make to reach their drinking and resting places. .

Mount Gola, in Collina di Forni di Sopra is one of these. On the long ridge that goes from Forcella Plumbs to the peak, the collapse of the war stations of the First World War has created hidden dangers under rhododendrons and young alders. The peak is not marked by the usual cross but by a rudimentary pole, a thin trunk of conifer still with its bark, and from the top flies a fluo orange drape instead of a flag. There are also three trunks cut in half to make benches from which to admire the view. If it is a clear day, in the west you can see the Dolomites. Antelao, Pelmo, Tre Cime of Lavaredo, looking north, beyond the Passo Volaia, your gaze reaches Austria and in the distance, you can see the snow-capped peaks of the Tauri. .

We are alone up here, we eat our sandwich and sip our beer looking down at the human ants that crowd the paths towards the shelters. And we remain in silence observing as the wild animals do. And the two of us are just a little like them.

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Antonella Astori

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I have lived in Padua since 2001 but I grew up in Tolmezzo and Collina di Forni. I have always climbed mountains, in my boots, on skis, on snowshoes or on a mountain bike. I graduated in Geology and I have been a nature/environmental guide at the Botanical Garden in Padua since 2012.