In the afternoon we left to get to the posts on the Pas Del Cornà, where we got after a short but intense climb through a rocky ridge which made it harder on us, since we were carrying our back packs and our heavy equipment. At the top we found still visible evidence of the Special’s posts structures. Digging around the heap of stones, we found a few rusty souvenirs to bring back home. After taking our ritual pictures, we started off toward our camp, through a heavy heap of stones which put to the test our boots and ankles. After we arrived at base camp, we were informed on what was expected of us for the evening: on the program was scheduled that at night time, three groups each made of seven/eight men, had to leave for patrolling, each group leaving fifteen minutes apart. Before the briefing we were asked to blacken our faces and hands, as they used to do back then. During the instructions for the patrolling were established both the leaders of the three groups and the objective to reach. Our patrol leader was Marco, since he is ranked as a Sergeant, and our objective was to get to the “Fontana del Lupo” (= Wolf’s Fountain) in Italian territory. To help us orienting, we were issued a map. We left at 21:00 and our group was the second in the order. After getting on the top of the mountain, we received instructions about the approximate direction to walk to and we had our start signal for the patrolling. Of course, during our patrol, we kept absolute silence and didn’t use any kind of light. After few minutes the eyes got used to the darkness and I was able to see the path we needed to follow while getting into the woods. We tried to perceive any movement around us, and once we got near the area of our objective, we proceeded with more caution. Since we know the boys from the patrol group before us very well, we believed they were ready to make us an ambush; now we were proceeding very slowly, trying to avoid walking on the pebbles, but only on dirt so that the noise of our boots could be absorbed. About every ten meters we were coming to a complete stop, crouched and hoped to hear any noise that could show us the others’ position. Right after this, we realized that it was impossible to avoid the ambush: we got caught by the boys of the other group, who were waiting for us; anyway they complimented us because we were moving in a tactical way. Obviously, now there were two patrol groups waiting for the last one, so we got in position to make our ambush. After a little while we heard them coming, since they were very noisy, and once they arrived closer they were practically surrounded by us and could only surrender to the evidence to have failed their mission. We went back through the same path all together, towards the start point, where there were the vehicles that brought us there. Back at the camp, it was about 23:30, we started a fire and we prepared something warm to eat before going to sleep.