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Enrica littleflower
January 24, 2022
Hiking
An old stone staircase leading to pools of water has its own charm, but it never seems to end. Break your knees.
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A. 🐺
June 29, 2025
Hiking
Old stone staircase that flanks the penstock of the Ferrazza hydroelectric plant: it was (is?) probably the service and maintenance access to the plant.
It is very long, steep and uneven, besieged by the woods: very particular and suggestive, but I think it is on private property (I ended up there by chance!).
A penstock is a pipe that conveys water from the upstream loading basin (like a tank or a dam) to the hydraulic turbine downstream: the force of the high pressure due to the slope is transformed into kinetic energy and then, via the generator, into electrical energy.
It is very long, steep and uneven, besieged by the woods: very particular and suggestive, but I think it is on private property (I ended up there by chance!).
A penstock is a pipe that conveys water from the upstream loading basin (like a tank or a dam) to the hydraulic turbine downstream: the force of the high pressure due to the slope is transformed into kinetic energy and then, via the generator, into electrical energy.
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1,170m
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Hard hike. Very good fitness required. Sure-footedness, sturdy shoes and alpine experience required.
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