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Gran Sasso? Is that the mountain of the rescue of Mussolini by germans paratroopers?

Basically, yes. The parking lot were most of the hiking trails start -at the end of the paved road- is just in front of the hotel were Mussolini was detained after the armistice.

The hotel is the red building in this picture, at an elevation of 2.130mt (roughly 7.000feet). The white one on the left is the cableway station that goes up from the valley (1.010 meters, or 3.320 feet below), the one in the back is an astronomical observatory, while the smaller one on the right is a ski-lift for winter skiing. The paved road (not visible in the picture) comes up with a few switchbacks from the right after crossing the entire plateau.
The road did not exist during WWII so the cableway was effectively the only way to go up (the skii area did not exist either in WWII, and I'm not too sure that the observatory was there as well).

The mountain in the background is Corno Grande, the highest peak of the Gran Sasso range and the highest of the entire Appennine chain, standing 2.912 meters tall (a bit over 9.560 feet).

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Sources and documentations are the most welcome.

-Koko Kyouwakoku (Republic of Koko)
-Koko's carrier-based aircrafts of WWII
-Koko Kaiun Yuso Kaisha - KoKaYu Line (Koko AU spinoff)
-Koko - Civil Aviation

I get my haircut maybe every couple months...depends on how long it is. Can't go too long or else it'll look shaggy and that's not a good thing when your CSM shows up at Drill. I go to the local Cosmetology Academy...they have free haircuts every Wednesday and there are a lot of cute girls there.

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MS State Guard - 08 March 2014 - 28 January 2023

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At the firing range yesterday shooting a SCAR 17. Personally I prefer the AK-47.

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MS State Guard - 08 March 2014 - 28 January 2023

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Never before post a photo of myself in this forum, but its time to do it.

Here I am, in front of the Scania Chimera. It was in a Truck Show in Greece on September 2017.

odysseus1980

Yesterday I had the official news that I am graduated at Maritime Institute! No journey is too long for the men from the North!
I have been 13 months away from home, which whom 11 on sea! Sailed nearly 53.500 nautical miles on 5 of the world seas!
Passed 17 countries, by sea, by river, by walk and some by plane! Now I can say I am officially Merchant Officer Engineering!
Pictures of me during my stay in Helsinki with the ship.

Congratulations Alex!
Looks like you've earned all that ice cream!

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English Electric Canberra FD
Interwar RN Capital Ships
Super-Darings
Never-Were British Aircraft

Congratulations for your graduation!

Congratulations Alva, you are now the pirate of the seven seas