The last few days in Colletta have been the hottest in the last 10 years. The temperature has reached 37 degrees each day which drains the energy from you. Despite this a number of us went on a 3 hour mountain walk last Monday. The first part was an easy stroll along the river valley to a “laghetto” near Nasino. Actually the laghetto is just a wide slow-moving area of the river which you have to cross to climb up the other side. Here the cool water was great to cool off before we climbed up from the valley to the Nasino path for the return walk to Colletta. This climb sapped our energy because by then the temperature was rising fast. Once up to the Nasino path it was still a good hour’s walk back because the path hugs the contours of the hills and passes round several streams which have carved gulleys out of the rocks. By this time the group had spread out a long way and probably we should have taken better precautions in case someone got heat stroke on the way. The cool beer in the piazza was well earned before going straight to the pool to cool off.
