Combine the (very) useful with the (very) pleasant and leave the adventure with your soul washed in one of the most endangered biomes in the country, the Atlantic Forest. This is the proposal of an action that is being organized by two experienced mountaineers, Rodrigo Rodriguez and Torricelli Ferreira for the 1st and 2nd of July next: the First Beneficent Crossing Lar dos Velhinhos de Pouso Alto.
The idea of the two mountaineers, who together have already demarcated the Transpapagaio crossing, in the Serra do Papagaio State Park, one of the most important and least explored sanctuaries of the Atlantic Forest, in Minas Gerais, is to establish a new alternative trail in the area, named Travessia Pedra Preta to Capitinga, in a total route of 30 kilometers and difficulty level 6.
In the universe of trails, level 6 is the one that provides stretches of up to 30 kilometers, with long climbs and technical walking (that is, being able to encounter different types of obstacles), intended for people in good physical condition.
“We want to open an unprecedented trail, very beautiful, and take with us a maximum of eight people, which is the limit that we consider safe of four for each guide”, explains Rodriguez. “And all the money collected from registrations will be destined to the Lar dos Velhinhos de Pouso Alto”, he guarantees.
Torricelli adds that the trail to be followed, in fact, will take up an old route by which his grandparents, owners of the farm whose upper part is already inside the park, transported wood taken from the region. “Today the area is completely preserved and we decided to recover the path to open up to more people the possibility of getting to know this part not yet explored by those who travel through the park”, he says, who has been traveling through the mountains of the area for more than 15 years and who dedicates part of her spare time to promote charity events for various charitable organizations.
Entries for the crossing cost R$800 per head, an amount well in line with what is charged by traditional trail guides in the region, and the deposit must be made directly into the account of the beneficiary institution, without intermediaries.
Entries must arrive on Friday (July 30) by 11 pm in Santana do Capivari or by 7:30 am on the 1st in Pouso Alto. The overnight stay for those arriving the day before can be done at Torricelli’s farm, with the right to a typical Minas Gerais breakfast. There will be two route options, a shorter one for those who want to stay halfway, and another that will follow until the end of the projected route. The overnight stay will be in a mountain camp, returning on Sunday for a barbecue on the site itself, with the closing scheduled for 7 pm on the 2nd.
The registration fee includes monitoring by a doctor with AWLS certification (Advanced Wilderness Life Support, specializing in perrengues of nature), individual insurance for the participant and transfer between the meeting points and the beginning and end of the trail, as well as tracking insurance every 10 minutes via Garmin in Reach, an application that allows tracking of the entire route, in addition, of course, to the barbecue at the end of the event.
So, in addition to helping an institution that deserves all the support, participants will be able to include in their curriculum that they participated in the creation of a pioneering route in one of the most beautiful landscapes of Minas Gerais. The train will be too good, just!
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