Another peak: Serra Round!

19-12-2007. Strange to say, but a small peak as the Round Serra, a stone's throw from home, missing in our movers. The summit reaches altitudes rather modest, but certainly did not deserve our inexcusable indifference toward its ascent, which is quite challenging because of its excursion Altitude and the significant slopes addressed. We start at 8.20 by Lauria and parcheggiamo the car near the Rione Murgi, about 800 meters. The snow fall last weekend is already present in these shares and makes even more exciting our ascent. The mountain rises before our eyes quite impressive, with its steep slope that dominates the country, down before our eyes. It begins to rise immediately, with the pace high and demanding slopes immediately, passing for young specimens of Pino Loricato that persist on the west side of the mountain. We recognize immediately the harshness of the company, so that in a few meters we already share rose significantly. Wonderful is the view behind us, we can see that Lauria between Pini Loricati that we just passed. The time of a photo and rise again, while giving support, and in just 58 minutes the first Domenico (or blond) is already on top, while the others achieved an eaten minutes later. The company is not negligible, we covered a distance of 1.2 km with roughly 500 meters in altitude, for an average gradient of well - 38.2%. On the summit, after a rejuvenating the warm, as our rite wants, we sbizzarriti in the photos: Our backgrounds are the favorites massive Sirino and Alps mountain shrouded by clouds. Although it is well below the other peaks of the valley, the view is the best and offers the opportunity to expand with the view to 360 ° not pass unnoticed here by the exit of North Lauria, Walnut Valley, area Galdo, Serra Spina, Lake Cogliandrino and Lake Sirino, Monte Alpi and Monte Sirino, Coccovello and the Tyrrhenian Sea. The steep descent differs from the others for the landscape in front and that changes as you go down, and that makes this part of walk less monotonous than usual.