The night was incredible warm. So warm, that I even crawled out of my sleeping bag. But later on, I put it over me again. And it rained at night. I was already worried, cause it wasn't supposed to rain before the afternoon and I wanted to get some hiking in before the rain. But it stopped and was dry all day!!! The weatherforcast for the next week was really bad, starting with rain on Sunday, REALLY wet on Monday and cold and rainy until the end if the week. I had thought about rushing it a bit, so I could be in town on Sunday and find a place to hide. But then there was no hint of any trail when I wanted to take a short cut I had seen on maps.me. At the end I walked the SI, which was over 10 km longer and involved about 600 m more of elevation gain. So my plan didn't work out...
But the day was beautiful warm and sunny. Most of the paths were small paths, they were marked very well and I had some nice views. But cows seem to be everywhere in Italys National Parks!Now I am camping in a wonderful yellow beech forest. It just sucks, that I don't have internet. Because my hip belt snapped today. It isn't too bad, carrying the pack with only the half part of the hip belt (the hip belt makes an Y and only one part broke) but I had decided to stop the hike, once it breaks. Putting tape on this morning wasn't enough... Since I will be in a bigish town tomorrow or on Monday (or later if I have to hide in my tent from all the predicted rain!), it could have been a worse time that my backpack broke. But without internet I can't make any further plans.
So my Italy hike will end very soon in Castrovillari, as well as my blog for now!
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