Last day in Livigno today,
unfortunately. The weather has been a lot better than was predicted
and expected.
We woke up and had breakfast a bit
later than the day before as we had no time problems today. We left
at some point and set of down through Livigno. The town is rather
long, going from one end of the valley to the other and not really
wide, as there are a bunch of high mountains around it. After some
discussion about what way to go on a wooden bridge which was actually
forbidden for bikes we carried on and turned left up another valley
at the end of Livigno and on the shoreline of the Lago di Livigno,
the massive artificial lake at the bottom end of the town. Biked
uphill and I managed to take a bit of a more comfortable route. I was
at the back and found a way around a forest where the rest pushed
through, it was only about 200 metres, thought.
We reached the top after crossing the
road and found a closed Alpe, so no last coffee there. What we found
was a kitten and it got a few strokes from our group. We carried on
downhill along a nice trail and did stop at one hut on the way for
our coffee. Turned out to be the hut where Group 2 had stopped the
day before. After that we carried on downhill along a step and stony
path, but we all got down in one piece. My brakes where completely
used at that point, so it was metal on metal with my disc breaks.
We reached the hotel after biking back
up through Livigno and after cleaning and packing up our bikes, had a
shower and then some lunch before the long journey back home came.
Another super weekend spent in the
heart of the Alps and loads of fun with the bike group in our end of
the year bike tour.
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