RECOMMENDATIONS AND SAFETY 25 years have now passed since I first started visiting the Lepini mountains and even now I am amazed at so much beauty but above all I am amazed how, still to this day, these mountains are still wild. I find that these mountains, apart from glaciers and large rock faces, have nothing to envy the more famous mountain groups in Italy, on the contrary, here you also have the sea!!! Not only, if we compare the paths of the Lepini mountains and the ones of Circeo to the majority of normal alpine paths, it is possible to notice how the latter are a lot more “tamed” compared to the former. For this reason one must never underestimate these mountains since they may offer unpleas-
ant surprises, due to the unexpected length of the trails, to the almost absent tracks, to faded or rare sign posting, to the surprising vegetation and the underestimation of the itinerary to be tackled. But for this same reason, it is possible to discover stellar sensations thanks to uncontaminated nature, walking in silence on these faint tracks becomes a real and proper dynamic meditation. In any case, roaming these areas means heading into wild and solitary corners of nature where a few dangers are hidden and are unknown to many. One above all is the massive concentration of underground cavities which for the majority of the times have a well like A break at Colle Trevi (© Funaro)
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