Field Winter 2007 
At seven and fifteen minutes the phone rings. Beppe is already located on the gate of the house of Flavio, ready for the final preparations.
At seven forty there are Richard and Toni and then finally arrives at eight o'clock punctual Silvano.
Ottavio There is, unfortunately for the weak influence that still has not completely abandoned. Silvano had planned to postpone all but the combination of the first day of the year when everyone can have time available has led us to also leave. We would not know when there would be again for this opportunity a winter camp.
Beppe complaining that he had been told to be ready at eight o'clock departure. Flavio will complain about Beppe pulled him out of bed earlier than expected.
All sit down in front of a steaming coffee with some cookies and there are endless complaints.
Silvano has brought some big sheets of styrofoam that will be used to temporarily cover the tepee and therefore need a car that starts with your luggage. We take the opportunity to send a pick and saw. Toni and Beppe lends him company.
decide curtains that are not needed because the weather is nice and there is no rain. Should we always get cold cover tepee.
The car moves away, and Flavio, Richard Silvano and start walking.
The forest is quiet, even the animals that usually live there seem to have disappeared.
The bottom is full of dry leaves, soaked by water and not snow there now for too long. Retrace the same route last year. We joke about the difficulty that there had been some steps in the snow, we stop in the same places and do some photography.
when she came to the hut of Estevan (it is not his, but now the name is attached) we find the car of Toni already empty. Some things are left on the street, on the table in Estevan and above the other, located on the small plane. In the meantime, however, have downloaded the towels, backpacks and other accessories that we brought.
reaching the tepee first appear the flag of Italy and the Group and we prepare for the flag hoisting. The rope that was tied to the antenna is gone, perhaps worn down by time, perhaps removed, and this prevents us from having little time to arrange as usual, unable to disassemble the entire portal to lower the antenna and replace the cord.
A flag-raising ceremony of luck to our aid: a horse of a branch you throw a chocolate rope tied to the flagpole and you're lucky.
decided to have made a snack.
Silvano works to pick and digging up the bottles of wine left on Friday.
appear salami and cheese bread. All have brought their glass lily. It is certainly not needed to remember before you leave.
a snack and then stick the job.
Flavio decides that the bottom of the tepee to be filled, but to prevent being forced to drop a dig too deep on the other side decides that we should put some logs and ground cover.
Beppe is responsible the work of the saw. Flavio pick work, Riccardo ago laborer, Toni Silvano nailed to a perch and drapes to cover the top of the tepee. That low was already covered a few days earlier, on a proposal by Silvano. with Flavio and Giancarlo had gone on site and had bogged down the tepee with sheets of styrofoam and then the blacks had it all wrapped up with DOMOPACK.
course so the tepee has a strange effect: where is the translucent DOMOPACK which replaced the tatters of cloth that had come on, black elsewhere, with the poles that hold up the leaning outside towels blacks.
The hard work goes more than expected and despite the mid-morning snack of the hunger strikes.
Meanwhile the fire was lit inside the tepee and the heat is soon evident. Going out there is the significant change in temperature.
Evidently the bandage with DOMOPACK is an excellent insulator.
Silvano, as always, is dedicated to the kitchen and cooks a great pasta with mozzarella. Single course not to weigh more.
We take the opportunity for a few phone calls in order to feel at home and all is well. As usual, there is difficulty in locating the field and we have to move here and there until the phone is able to predict the communication.
is repeated and credible than it was thought the inside of the tepee turns slowly and takes on a completely flat course. At this point would seem to have ended, but imagination is not lacking. Beppe here that goes back to work with the saw and quickly creates two wooden benches standing on logs properly excavated to accommodate the horizontal beam.
the evening comes early, we are in early January and the days are short.
no choice but to burrow in the tepee where Silvano again bustling with stoves.
Since the interior is now taken up one of the benches outside and transfers it inside where, covered by sheets of blacks, will serve as a kitchen table.
This time he is preparing ravioli in broth, true capon broth. He took Beppe and Silvano has cooked at home to avoid too much time that would then be necessary.
but the fire still remains a good hour. Bowl ravioli, excellent, cuts the capon with all eyes fixed on him in no doubt that it manages to fall to the ground.
is of such dimensions that despite having plenty to eat we could not finish it.
Flavio removed from his pocket and began to sing the lyric songs of our scouts. Maybe not everyone, but we've sung a lot.
In the end, we have not looked at the time, but we decide that the day was quite intense and it's time to go to sleep.
We bring out the benches, spreading mats of polystyrene, black as the sheets that we have made around the tepee, but thicker, and prepare all their own couch. It is thought that the night would take us cold, just like last year, but we are lucky a surprisingly mild climate that is with us until the morning.
As always when comes the dawn the air is cooled and then also begins to blow a wind is not too pleasant.
Beppe stretches, wants to get up. Richard sees him and gets up with him, while the "windows" of light comes DOMOPACK. You bring up the little fills that there is before we get to see tepees and in that moment the sun, still hidden for them, illuminates the peaks around the lake, up to Orobie that are covered with snow. The show would be wonderful if there was a thick mist that covers everything below. Its surface becomes red for the sun, under gray, impenetrable.
few minutes later while they are coming back to the tepee among the trees here that came the first ray. The day promises to be beautiful, with clear skies and warm sun.
At the moment, a breeze blows annoying.
They get everyone comfortable with, so there is no hurry.
flags lowered reappear in the evening for the new flag-raising ceremony accompanied innate Italy.
Immediately after Silvano is dedicated to coffee, then we open the cake that brought. Coffee cake. What can you want?
There is no water and you can not wash, but the shaggy hair may well provide. Flavio weapon is patience and nails and build a comb a little dangerous, but working.
emptied the bags from the teepee sleeping, from backpacks, the towels, we refer the benches created the day before.
By the way we decide it's time to toast and a bottle of Franciacorta that should accompany the cake instead of coffee is opened around the fire and toast with joy to ourselves.
is only a moment's pause to decide what still needs to do.
to return calls to find out if he and Giancarlo Franco come to visit.
Call Ottavio that wants news and that tells us that he still wearing the after-effects of influenza and so there will not even for lunch, which we had hoped instead.
It resumes work, but not inside the tepee, there remains only to remove the portion of land where the fire burns and then dig a hole to contain it and decide to postpone to the next exit. This will allow us to gain considerable space, since to contain the fire needs more and make him the bank with the earth and are nice extra inches to qualify to move freely inside the tepee.
saw Nails and allow you to create a shelf, sitting recess of three plants, to be eligible for filing various objects, especially the kitchen.
conservatively that the pole was placed at the intermediate support is created for draining their glasses.
At the end of all the work lacks only the closet for clothes.
pass some people, those who love walking in the mountains. A stop to chat a little and find that it was he who put the tarp on the table.
When he learns that it was us who realize the tepee, and we intend to restore it immediately provides to bring the tarp to spread around the cloth that will take us to better protect it. Then you look around and think that you could build two or three tepee. In short, an entire village. Do not comment on his idea, but we acknowledge that it intends to willingly participate in the reconstruction and certainly we will call it having regard to its availability and because he has repeatedly brought the children to play in the teepee, he kept it clean and tidy.
is approaching the lunch hour and two sturdy sticks it shall prepare the twist. Like a good chef Silvano teases him, to avoid swelling on the outside and remain raw inside, with the comb after duly disinfected blowing on it. This time the twist is less strained and cooked really well inside.
shell half past eleven and come here and Giancarlo Franco who join the company.
on fire cooking kebabs, lamb chops, bacon. It provides a sumptuous lunch and as always far too abundant.
To whet your appetite a few slices of salami and cheese and then the mustard that was not finished with the capon.
It is hard to finish everything, but it is not right that you can throw away all that good food.
We arrive at the end of the meal, a proper cup of coffee (for some reason on these occasions always check the bottle) and then begin to think of the return.
Beppe builds "sgarnera," a broom made of branches and cleans the side of the field that needs it.
What can not be thrown on the fire is collected and given to Franco and Giancarlo who share before us. Other luggage we will upload them on their shoulders as always, together with the backpacks.
were two days short, but intense, we worked to prepare the ground for renewed tepee and then happy with our work we take the path of the return just before sunset.
