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Finalmente Alaska!

L’ultima frontiera, la chiamano. E hanno ragione. Selvaggia, tremendamente grande, stupenda, magica Alaska.

Ospite di Fabrizio Lovati, mio amico Musher di Courmayeur, ho avuto la fortuna di partecipare agli allenamenti dei suoi splendidi cani da slitta. Nel video quello che gli addetti ai lavori chiamano “to run the dogs”.

Purtroppo la mancanza di neve, che non mi ha tra l’altro permesso di fare snowboard in Alaska, a dicembre (!!!!!), ha costretto Fabrizio e il suo team ad allenarsi in montagna, ed anche li con quad o motoslitte, perchè con la slitta da sleddog sarebbe troppo pericoloso. Incredibile ma vero.

The Snow Must Go On anyway…

L’allenamento prosegue, il primo marzo parte l’Iditarod Race, l’ultima vera gara, e Fabrizio sarà tra i partenti anche quest’anno.
E’ appena arrivato terzo alla Tustumena, questo è il link:

http://www.tustumena200.com/results.htm#LittleT

Forza Fabrizio!

English

It’s known as the last frontier. They’re right. It’s wild, unforgiving, damn huge, beautiful, magic.

I was hosted by Fabrizio Lovati, a friend of mine from Courmayeur, that’s been mushing since the 80’s. He took me in the woods with his dogs as promised. That’s what you can see on the video, a training, that is in their lingo, running the dogs.

Unfortunately, since there was lack of snow, and by the way, I couldn’t snowboard in december in Alaska (!!!!), they had to go up on a mountain pass, and ride with quads or snow machines, as the sledge would’ve been too dangerous.

The training continues though and just recently Fabrizio finished the Tustumena on the third place, here is the link:

http://www.tustumena200.com/results.htm#LittleT

Forza Fabrizio, the Iditarod will start on march first, rock on, mush on!

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