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LONGALAGO 2007: ORGANIZATION

After the wonderful adventure of rowing VIACOLMARMO! with the spectacular arrival in Milan, we have immediately pick up the thread of LONGALAGO 2007, whose departure from Verbania Suna was scheduled for June 23.
Compared to 2006 we have greatly simplified the assistance of the boats, cut to the bone, both for budget reasons, but also because in reality it was because they were never raised real issues of risk.
I got away well with a couple of boats and, in the early stages in which the greater the danger to the presence of numerous vessels, even with the assistance of the spear of our friends rowing in Verbania who had rowed with us.
Regarding organizational matters, we have traced all the steps already taken to the edition of last year, some already started and is nearing box: permissions, sponsorship, involvement of local communities, communication with friends, the request for assistance, etc. ...
And all respond to our letters and emails with courtesy and sympathy of course, the success of the first and now one of VIACOLMARMO! waving in front of everyone to accelerate the answers they gave us a new credibility. Perhaps all
Troubetzkoy and consider myself still a bit 'crazy, but also efficient (and lucky).
It was a great success.

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The Stage 1 to 23 June 2007: Verbania Suna-FERIOLI km. 5.40

's stage Saturday, June 23 is one of the longest LONGALAGO faced by swimmers, is the first year, no one has yet trained, but luckily begins with a sunrise beautiful, clear air and no wind damage to hope that in conditions of perfect lake.
In this first stage of assistance, as well as our friends from the State Police, consists of two rubber dinghies, rowing a boat with rowers who were enthusiastic about rowing down with us to Milan and a kayak with a fun crew: a friend of ours swimming trainer (a little 'overweight) with his doberman puppy!
The appointment is at the port of Verbania Suna and our athletes arrive in ones and twos a little 'excited to start again after one year adventure to swim the country Feriolo the horizon, far, and it seems impossible to get up there to swim.

We get ready and we leave, we are in 9 and 2 of us, two lovely ladies, and participate without changes even though the water temperature is now reasonable, around 21 °, however, is a brave choice to stay in water 3 hours and more without protection, with only a little 'grease smeared on the skin at the start.
The route from Suna to the building that housed the old Osteria San Carlo at the beginning of the reed does not have much history, the water is quite cloudy for the many storms of the past days and it is difficult to discern any significant fish sinking to the bottom slowly quite monotonous, strewn with pebbles and practically devoid of vegetation underwater until the end of the Three Bridges, where outcrops of shale rock formations and a bit 'of natural vegetation manages to get to the water.
The fish are left wanting and apart from some nice chub and largemouth bass in the marina at the start of Suna, we find only a few roach and alborellina. Finally we arrive at the reed
Fondotoce and someone enjoys to approach the dense tangle of canes that sprout from the sandy bottom, we do not know the truth if we are allowed to swim near the reed bed or whether we should keep away to the distance of the row of yellow buoys that indicate the nature reserve, at the end of a beach full reed bathers from a camping brings us back to a moment in a colorful world and populated.
In a moment we arrived at the mouth of the Toce and there is the only moment of tension because the river water is the color of the ice and formed whole islets of floating debris, on which they alight gulls in search of fish while the temperature drops suddenly probably around 7 °.
is a time of difficulties to be overcome by a decision to quit reacting as quickly as possible from the current cold and back in the warmer waters of the lake, especially for our two companions who swim without a wetsuit and which path will end all six km swimming with enviable determination to frog! From the mouth of the Toce
Feriolo until the water is always dirtier to the time of the last days and the surface is literally covered in large areas by floating debris left by the buzz, as it is called traditionally in the rivers.
Swimming is stricken against some trunk, and it is hard to keep the leadership in the water more turbid, and the country is still far Feriolo and bell tower, the ideal goal, and extended himself very slowly, perhaps because the fatigue is beginning to be hear.
The last part is the path to swim between the boats anchored in front of the campsites and then disembark Feriolo tired of the country, the new beach made in the country where the encounter with the mountain.

A nice lady councilor of Baveno, graciously welcomes us with a delicious and refreshing struggling a little to wait for the arrival of our sports breaststroke, but in the end prevail and education to its arrival nobody touches the pizza and chips!
We are all happy, we passed a significant distance to comfort us for the next steps, this adventure resumed a year later confirms fun and satisfying, and so we salute you for giving us an appointment the next morning.

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The Stage 4 to 1 July 2007: LESA-Mein km. 6.20

Sunday, July 1 begins with a sky full of clouds and a few drops of rain we get wet as we bring the boat to Pallanza to Lesa and commented that it will certainly be a problem for us but for those who swim there accompanies the boat.
Moored floating Lesa already waiting for us all swimmers and friends discover the satisfaction now we're back in 9.
The stage is scheduled non-stop until Meina and is probably the longest of all those that we have come so far, although you can shorten it a bit 'cutting along the Gulf of grooves.

when to leave and gray but the rain stopped and we dive in front of you knowing a lot of 'miles, and a lot of strokes to be done.
begin to make progress swimming around very long scree Erno of the stream, passing some magnificent gardens at the beginning, even in the perfectly manicured hedges and railings overlooking the lake, behind which one can see magnificent villas backward. Then we come
towards the mouth of the river, where a lot of boats are still to fish with rod and I would want to know what they are undermining, even if the banks start to see some 'of alborelline.
It's funny to go through the form below finning fishermen and would almost want to show them that where they have dropped the line and there is nothing that they should move back to 100 m, where swarms of little fish, but the mutual embarrassment is palpable No one asks us where we come from and where we go, even though they probably have never seen a dozen yellow balloons parade along the coast and disappeared from their sight within minutes.
front of the estuary bottom is sandy or gravel lot small and, where sinks, it still reads pretty well defined the line of the classical ring of algae that once lined the lake wherever this is not going down too quickly.
In fact, at least from what we've seen so far, the worst condition of the aquatic vegetation is located within the Borromeo Gulf, and from Ghiffa or better Oggebbio Lesa north and south are still a bit 'aquatic plants, however, almost exclusively family miriophillum and this could possibly coincide with the fact that the worst pollution from heavy salts, they settle on the bottom and then to poison him, there were historically because of the industries from the Ossola Toce and Cusio.
If so, and we talk about a process probably started at least 25 years ago, aquatic plants, for example, Pallanza, have died, may be to reintroduce it, without waiting for time immemorial, you can simply replant groped and I remember that every branch seaweed lying on the bottom soon chased by the plant roots dating back strongly towards the surface and the sun and I refuse to believe that the situation today is so serious that this does not happen again as it has always been.
I intend to try when I have time, even planting elodea dense that I finally found abundant during VIACOLMARMO! dell'Incile abandoned in the basins of the Panperduto Villoresi. A
word should be spent on flowering of anabena, single-celled algae that are invading the last few years many pre-alpine lakes including surprisingly Lake Garda and Lake Maggiore, as they are surprisingly Oligotrophic lakes.
I do not want to dwell on complex scientific issues, but the daily running ARPA monitoring progress of the bloom of this alga, which is considered potentially toxic to the liver and the respiratory muscles.
We will go through these stages to swim in large expanses with a strong odor while the swimmers in all the coastal dive safely in this mass unpleasant looking and we hope that does not prove long-term hazards.
Sometimes the visibility is difficult and sometimes not for the presence dell'anabena, but surprisingly for the enormous number of young fish that swim in front of our diving mask, secure them with thousands of pinholes for eyes and I still wonder why some features of coastline is devoid of life teeming with fish and some other, perhaps if we had the answers we could create breeding areas and facilitated reincrementare fish populations.

across the Gulf of Solcio cutting through the buoys anchored boat and face the suddenly quite naturally preserved in front of the poor Villa Cavallini, home to an Agricultural Institute, which is in increasingly dire conditions.
Many trees are immersed in the water, I see a nice largemouth bass in the little bay and swimming for the next several hundred meters in a dense cloud of alborelline, cured overnight by giant chub which evidently follow the swarm they eat.
Then again some beautiful villas on the lake and we approach Meina through a long bay with sailboats and motorboats anchored.
Passes Lido trying to orient myself with our memories by the highway but I struggle to find the reference points known and I am quickly in front of the mouth of a river entering the lake is completely channeled between the walls of two gardens of old houses today restructuring (villa Castiglioni?) and here I find a sandy beach diving all white shaped wave as the sea and on the bottom, a little 1 meter deep, cold water of the river that runs beneath the surface layers of the lake.
We are almost there but just a few meters before the sad mass of cement of the Hotel Milano, we have the unpleasant surprise of seeing a major artifact that low 2 m below the surface of a flow of gray water, sewage, detergents and charged with the usual chub swarm swarming always in the presence of organic material poured into water!
Then after landing a couple of yards of buildings under renovation and is still surprised to see with regret that in the lake has been spilled everything from profiles of iron the pieces of aluminum to concrete blocks, and this even in recent times, as evidenced by the fact that the metal shines and is not covered with moss and algae.
I intend to report these findings to the City of Meina because the right measures are taken and then added to the steps of granite that forms a kind of town beach, where I note with regret that the water is very dirty with the usual algae and cyanobacteria a lot of material that floats.
We will see in the next few days if it gathers the bottom of the lake because of the prevailing winds from the north, and anything that floats on water conditions found swimming to Ticino.
Today our walk is over and not water hide all be proud of our strength and above all our friend Erica who is undeterred by Lesa arrived in Meina breaststroke!

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The Stage 3 to 30 June 2007: Stresa-BELGIRATE km. 6.00

Saturday, June 30 begins with a beautiful clear skies and sunshine.
arrived for the meeting in Stresa we consult all first on the situation of the various stages of scratches left behind by last week, especially on the neck and toes and we console during the week that we were able to cure ourselves as best physical problems. There is already waiting for the boat
Carabinieri escort us to the third stage, which should not present major technical complexities because the stretch of coast that we will face the traffic of vessels is generally very low.

We counted and there are only 6, but also enthusiastic in front of the stage long before us, because the distance is 6 km of new theoretical, and therefore in reality more. The usual starting
unleashed shelling us immediately along the coast and I harbor as usual just below the bank to make my observations of the bottom, fish and algae, also because I could not even wanting to swim off the coast is still swimming in deep water because I always create a degree of apprehension, because it is much more difficult swim straight without some visual reference. Then
because otherwise I get bored.
seems strange, but in a dip that can last 3 hours if there are significant differences, which for me are usually represented by meetings with some interesting fish, the movement becomes mechanical, and if before my eyes there is only the green deep dark water, the mind has time to sweep up all the thoughts that a door behind you, from the most beautiful in the most obsessive.
But I realize that men are continually cues or situations that catch my attention em'incuriosiscono could swim indefinitely and the time passes without that I never get bored in this liquid world that, as even only just a little below the water surface, is a completely different world, a parallel planet.
Returning to our stage, the first long stretch after Stresa not reserve any surprise, the collection consists of a very gently sloping expanse of pebbles, no fish except a few small goby or any dog \u200b\u200bthat moves from stone to stone.
In this long desert moon occasionally appear groups of rocks, sometimes they are large blocks of granite certainly dragged away by glacial erosion, are sometimes rather large residual structures of the shale cliffs making up the entire side and I remember well you could see in the paintings of Carcano Gignous and set on the coast of Stresa.
At one point I also see a pile of granite blocks piled up, worked perfectly, probably evidence of an ancient shipwreck of a boat.
turning point after the south coast begins to deepen and coming close to the site Vidoli begin to see a bit 'of fish, some chub, roach and perch sun on the beach front restaurant in San Giovanni 2 m depth of a water snake hunting under rocks with his head stuck in it and most of the body.
I would like to time his sleep apnea but I doubt that will last maybe a half hour or more and I can not wait that long, or when I get to Belgirate my friends have eaten all the pizza.
Some old dock with the rusty gate open toward the lake I try and intimidate me with fear of the dark because the sun is always coming from the ancestral.
I still swim with a rapid pace along sometimes discontinuous short stretches of reeds and discovered with surprise that grow easily from the base consisting of pebbles, while I thought that their habitat was only the soft sandy bottom.
finally passed the dock of the Villa Dal Pozzo d'Hanno and then coming in sight of the first buildings of Belgirate.

There is repeated the surprise that I had before Baveno, because the works carried out on the lake to build the marina and the arches in front of Villa Carlotta, based on granite boulders sunk in bulk are a wonderful refuge for many fish, dart frantic when I arrived fleeing from their burrows.
It seems to be at sea and you'd imagine to see in the ravines grouper, sea bream, bream, but also with our beautiful lake fish.
A bank were planted willow trees that have caught on very well and their aquatic roots, thick and red, sprout from the bottom among the Saxons, moving with the waves as if they were sea anemones. Check-in lakefront
until Belgirate aquatic plants here and in long rows that rise from the bottom drops steeply to a sandy stretch, it is likely that the fact of having made the enlargement of the lake in front of the country over large piles of cement blocks, without creating a continuous wall, spared the bottom part of the same characteristics as the original crown and vegetation before.

We go out of the water and the mayor received us with the Assessor Conelli Professor Hill with a friendly acceptance based of delicious pizza, pies, chips, etc.. that we are welcomed with gratitude the kind retailers and restaurateurs in the country which all contribute to this reception for us athletes.
Today we are not so many but so hungry that even with the help of the police team also coming up to escort the supplies end up including all the cakes for 3 of us who have birthdays today. Today the same tasks simultaneously
fact the years both my wife and I, we were born the same day of the same year!, And the new friend of Intra, Clare Carey, a teacher at Cobianchi, constrained to a wheelchair by a progressive disease, but undaunted and enthusiastic, which brought us in the boat near Belgirate became boldly deploying and pull with a buoy to the finish.
Another stage is over, we salute you for the next day, those who jump in the car, some in small boat, probably all ready to go for a well deserved afternoon siesta!

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The Stage 2 to 24 June 2007: FERIOLI STRESA-km. 5.40

Sunday, June 24 begins with a cloudy sky, but it does not rain, and especially not windy. We get to
Feriolo for the meeting with a good delay because the day of the first stage has already gone so well that technically we are all relaxing.
We count and we are again at 9, then we prepare carefully assist each other for those small steps necessary to avoid cuts and scrapes, very easy to swim the length of waiting for us.
the floating dock the boat waiting for us in the Provincial Police, commanded by Manoni, recent protagonist, as we discover with great emotion, a climb of Everest.

Later comes the boat with our friends the police and we have the pleasant surprise that today we also expect the boat Carabinieri escort us also in this second stage, which can present more complex because before arriving in Stresa and Baveno traffic of passenger boats , taxi boats, pleasure boats, etc.. is very intense and, as we will discover getting, that creates a very significant wave.
The stage was scheduled to arrive in Baveno first intermediate of the wharf, the group re-consolidation, transportation by boat for about 250 but overcoming the obstacles to the resumption of Baveno and Stresa to swim to prison, but the administration of Stresa us asked to proceed to Lido Blue to welcome in the center of Stresa, stretching, however, so the stage is already covered in nearly 6 km, 1 km further abundant.
A little 'this additional unexpected sudden we appalled because the number of strokes to do gets bigger and bigger. All, however, decide to
equal parts Feriolo and swim starts, cheerful as always, with the fastest trigger that literally as if they were swimming for a few swimming pools.

It's fun to see how each participant chooses a simplest way and how they are formed small groups that gin cotton according to the speed and the competition that never fails even as a dip this, openly and clearly not competitive.
I now harbor the coast hoping to meet some nice fish come out from the bottom of pebbles now several blocks of granite boulders that seem more process waste water from the nearby quarries finished incidentally falling from barges, because if I actually see far more numerous than usual.
Sometimes the rocky terrain, characterized by periods not in any way come to the surface rows and rows of bubbles that have no explanation why there is no mud on the bottom and is not decaying organic material buried.
When I was little, I always wondered how the bottom of a lake could hold water and basically the answer I do not know even today that are great and it makes me smile to think that these bubbles mean that the lake loses!
However, advancing from Feriolo arrived at the bridge exit ramp on the highway and there is all the shore strewn with large granite boulders under the water, sunk a barrier to the construction of the building and road, forming almost a cliff natural.
The appearance of this landslide long resting on the bottom is very natural even if it never arrives at a depth greater than 2 m 2 m and a half, and here's a surprise: from the dens between the Saxons dart out chub and roach amid clouds of fry, completely undisturbed by traffic noise of the nearby main road instead scares me when a motorcycle roars fast very close above my head and I can not understand what this awful noise that seems to pounce on him.
I had not seen even a perch, and with joy I see two beautiful sun perch and then suddenly a meeting that stops me from emotion: a pair of giant carp rooting on the bottom and seeing that go away to get more for annoyance not out of fear.
I estimate that each eye of these two beasts can weigh around 10 kg carp are normal, mirrors, and I am amazed because I had never encountered underwater, indeed I had never even seen from above the water, so that initially while I see the corner of tench and I think they are only a moment later I realize that tench are not, because the size is huge.
Soon after I counted slowly at least 10 big pike and then two more giant carp, all on a path probably no more than km of coastline.
That tract is characterized not only by the artificial reef, by a lot of willows grown in the water's edge or even into the water, so that the bottom is littered with dead trunks, enormous sunk roots and branches that come into water and perhaps this creates an environment of contact between the vegetation very interesting land and water for fish.
immersed in the fantastic, I do not even realize he had already swam for over an hour and I am aware of having arrived in Baveno, just because the dock again against the wall of which risk is to beat villa with Fedora the public beach. At the beach of Hotel Rigoli
we gather all we received from the kind owner with a reception much appreciated.

We are already late and we move with the boats after the lake to prevent the landing of Baveno and motorboats, and when we riimmergiamo to swim almost immediately caught sight of a fifth carp, with a little 'scales mirrors, and proceed more carefully looking again hoping to meet others.
But then, almost at Villa Aminta, so we all tossed by the waves created by boats, and increased it by bouncing between the coast and islands that we decide to go back on the boat and carry us until after the Lido di Carcano, because, addition to the problems created by boats, it seems that the Lido has been declared unsuitable for bathing by the ASL. Restless
to swim immediately after Carciano and marched one after another along several villas, including the poor Villa Castelli is now in ruins, and hotels along the lakeside of Stresa to perform in a final rush before the public beach of Lido Blue

There we expect the Mayor and Councillor Di Milia Aguzzi presented with a welcome refreshment from Red Cross volunteers and after the usual photos back to our boats bade farewell to the stage of the June 30, Stresa-Belgirate, km. 6.
now distances do not scare us more and apart from the weak of our suits and fins, we feel very boldly.
The end of the lake begins to approach and Novella and I begin to think about where to swim next year!