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Fosso dei Caprini

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At the border between Lazio and Abruzzo rise Laga Mounts. They are made of a stack of layers of sandstone more than 1000 meters thick, placed on marl layers. All layers immerse at east, so the western part of Laga (in Lazio) is much steeper and rocky than the rest. All mountaintops rise above 2000 meters (the highest is about 2500 meters). Winter climate is very cold and snowy in Laga mounts.

Laga mounts are rich in water, because it rains enough, but also because sandstone doesn't allow water to go undergroud. There are a lot of streams, and a lot of magnificent waterfalls. In winter they are suitable for ice-climbing (in fact this is the southest place in Italy where doing ice-climbing). In summer the hardest streams are an ideal canyoning terrain with unusual features, long accessess, low water temperature (due to the height above sea level) and the presence of snow fields and tunnels till the beginning of summer.

The landscape in Laga mounts is really great!

Streams which are born in the area between the magnificent pyramid of Pizzo di Sevo and the square Cima Lepri join together to give birth to Fosso del Molinaro. All of them are interesting to canyoneers, but Fosso dei Caprini is the least one, because it consists in a valley in the beeches forest and it is almost always dry (except in its last part, due to a perennial spring).
However it owns enough elements to spend a day of sport in a beautiful environment.

Name	Fosso dei Caprini
Area	Lazio, Monti della Laga
Nearest village	Amatrice
Entrance altitude (above sea level)	1820 m
Exit altitude (above sea level)	1350 m
Length	1,5 km
Longest rappel	40 m
Rock	Sandstone
Rating	3
Shuttle	Indispensable
Explored by	Michele Angileri, Andrea Pucci; october 12 2008.

I remember ...

Andrea and I didn't believe that Fosso dei Caprini could be an interesting canyon, and so we had not much intention in exploring it. Curiosity about Caprini, however, came occasionally to us ... would it be worth? ... there is enough difference in height ... how many dry cascades ... map doesn't show exactly where it passes ...

A lot of hypoteses came and went to our head ... till curiosity had its victory, as always with us!

Photos and video by Michele Angileri and Andrea Pucci

Photographs in this website show ultralight ropes (6 mm ropes made of high tenacity fibers). Read multimedia book Ultralight ropes canyoning technique to learn how to use them.