cookieless, no-ads, no threats canyon exploring with Michele Angileri Fosso della Madonnella
At the end of Salto valley, a few kilometers from town of Rieti, there is an unusual canyoning place. It features pudding-rock in huge compact layers, giving landscape peculiar shapes and colors. Pudding is also tender for water, so every little stream is able to dig a canyon. That's why we find a very high concentration of canyons here! Nice few-engaged canyon, to be descended in a rainy period. Rock is less compact than other canyons in Balzi area, and vegetation draws an unusual primeval environment.
  I remember ...We started at the crest, to descend from left branch, called Fosso Cognolo. There was a little flow though that
winter had been very very dry. Cognolo was an open, steep valley in the forest, with a few waterfalls. Sometimes we
rappelled, sometimes we bypassed the waterfalls, according to what seemed more time-saving.
The second time, 4 years later, it was much better. We had a rainy winter (meadows were plains of mud). We descended from the right branch. There was water flowing down the waterfalls, through the whole canyon, and the day was splendid. Copyright © 2002- Michele Angileri. All rights reserved. |
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