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The Bikers and the Mountain Lodge

The last leg of Pia's journey sees her hitch a ride through the mountains of the Val Canale with some bikers.

On the last leg of her journey, Pia climbs the mountains of the Val Canale, heading into the Alps with a local biker gang she befriends at a village music festival. After miles on the bikes, then two hours on foot, they finally reach their goal - a remote lodge in the snow, which the bikers took four years to build. The whole gang celebrates into the night in traditional local fashion.