Are you perhaps wondering why, at this time of year, snow races are held at 15° C and mountain races at 5° C? Perhaps because, as Alessandro Morandotti said in his *Minime*, “the economy and the weather both have a habit of defying predictions”? Be that as it may, the fact remains that during this early spring—marked by enormous, almost desert-like temperature swings—there will bemany mountain races to participate in on Saturday and Sunday, February 25 and 26, 2017, and above all, they’ll be fantastic!
On Saturday, February 25, at 6:00 p.m., the first edition of the Cortina CAI Snow Rundi Cortina d’Ampezzo, Belluno, will begin—a mountain race on snow along a 20k course with a total elevation gain of 1,380 meters.The Monte Prealba Up&Down, a mountain running endurance race taking place in Bione, Brescia, will begin on Saturday, February 25, and conclude on Sunday, February 26: the race will be 24 hours, 12 hours, or 6 hours, and will follow an 8.37-kilometer course with 687 meters of elevation gain per lap.

On Sunday, February 26, in Arenzano, in the province of Genoa, the third edition of the Three for Team Trail Race will take place—a 21-kilometer semi-self-supported trail race with 1,100 meters of elevation gain along the trails leading from the sea to the Apennine mountains of the UNESCO Beigua Natural Geopark.

In the Verbania Pallanza area, also on Sunday, the 26th, “La Traccia Bianca” will take place—a non-competitive snowshoe hike along an 8k route with an elevation gain of 250 meters: The event will start at 10:30 a.m. from the plaza in front of the Albergo Cervandoneon Alpe Devero.

In the Canove di Roana area,on the Asiago Plateau, the second Vaca Mora Winter Edition will take place on Sunday—
, a 10k run along the old Piovene-Rocchette railway line – Asiago, starting in Canove di Roana and finishing in Tresché. Meanwhile, in the Moroccan desert of Merzouga, an exciting week of Desert Training will beginin the company of Marco Olmo.