PUNTA VELENO

Scritto il 31-01-2012

Yesterday was a cold day, a humid morning. There wasn’t the fog, but the cold that comes from the humid air slid into the bones. I moved from home to Lake Garda. I often do it in this period: I wake up half an hour earlier, I prepare a little rucksack with some clothes to change and I park my car immediately near the lake. There’s a microclimate that makes me gain some °C and makes me work better. Unfortunately, little changes with this temperatures. Usually my start is from Torbole on Lake Garda. A little town of Trentino on the northern top of the biggest lake of Italy. I adore it, I like it so much that I’ll live there. I think it’s the most Rock town of the lake.

But yesterday I had the occasion to find friends and journalists to make a little inspection of one of the famous climb of next tour of Trentino: the Punta Veleno. It’s a climb that will host the third of four stages. It’s a climb that starts from Brenzone. It’s an extremely hard roughness, absolutely the most steep ascent I have never seen, so much that I couldn’t imagine such a thing existed. I pedaled only 2 of the 10km, but they were enough for me. 17% for the first 5km, then 10% and 15%. For sure they’re not my course. I was using a 39x28, but a 34x29 will be necessary for those who will make the ranking.

If I should compare it to a singer, I would say “it’s a hellish climb worthy of Marilyn Manson”.

It will be a real show and a great test-bed.

To take comfort I laid into Sushi. 

And I visited my friends of  Vertigo.

And do you know who is there in Torbole?  The Mecki. Soon the new season  F&P