17-10-15 Garand Picture of the Day

[Mark in Rochester]

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[ed skeels]

They look frozen!
Where at?

Thanks

[browningautorifle]

Very nice...looks like Ovidio when he was younger and a bit more active...his guys anyway...

[Ovidio]

You're baiting me, isn't it?

Here a few more pictures.
We even made some strange meetings during our marching days in winter
The summertime picture is at the end (almost) of a long patrol. Some friends from my platoon.
An early snow in September '94 and me (grey sweater and sunglasses) last Sunday after competing in an Alpini Association Garand shooting contest (got 10th out of 200, not bad).

[browningautorifle]

me (grey sweater and sunglasses)

Good to see you Ovidio...

[CINDERS]

You still look fit enough to me Ovidio to do a 10 mile route march.

I've just hopped off my Blackbird after a 260 klm bike ride in 28 C heat fully kitted in Dryrider gear and man I feel the need for some Gentleman Jacks.......................Ice & Coke (The fizzy kind guys)

[Ovidio]

Hi Cinders, luckily enough I’m still able to go up and down mountains easily. Though I played 25 years American football, I never injured myself in the legs, so I’m fairly fit and still “movable”. It’s the neurons though.......

[Ovidio]

I found a few pictures today.
Gran Paradiso, Val D'Aosta, mid-May 1995.
Here we were at 4000 meters, just under the top of the mountain, but we had to go back because we could not see the crevasses in the glacier anymore. Even the Alpieri (guides) said that it was way too dangerous.
What a pity.
We climbed form the Rifugio Vittorio Emanuele (2700 meters) up to there in less than 2 hours with a real snow storm going on. What a time!
No Gore-Tex for us then. We had the heavy cotton jackets (we called Cacca-Tex, or ****-Tex) and a lot of wool on ourselves.
There was also a company of French Chasseurs des Alpes with us, but I can't remember how they were equipped.
I was accompanying two Swedish officers from the Norbottensbrigaden who were on an organised exchange with our Brigade. They had good equipment!
We just had the "attributes", and that has always been enough for the Alpini!

[Ovidio]

From the valley floor (Pont) to the Rifugio, the day before, we had fabulous weather.
Then we got the storm.
We went up the route with the continuous red line (the right one) and stopped right under the last rocks before the top.
On the way back, the day after, we crossed path with a flock of steinboks (or rock goats). Fantastic moments!