Almost every Sunday, except when he is traveling, we can find Xavier Marcet on the mountain of Sant Llorenç del Munt and the L'Obac mountain range. It is where the driving force behind the humanist management movement and vice-president of the Marlex group has always gone for walks, first with his grandparents, then with his father, also with his children, and even with his grandchildren. Cala, his dog, always accompanies him now, and when he can, he shares the walk with his friend, Ramon: “It’s the place I miss the most when I’m away, I go there practically every week. It’s a natural park not so big that you can’t find a new route each time you go, but big enough to have a small festival each time I discover a new path,” he explains, satisfied. For Marcet, it is much more than a beautiful landscape: it is a very emotional landscape full of family memories. He assures that it is perfect when he needs solace or to find himself, he has lived many hours of serenity and contemplation of beauty there, with views of Montseny, the Pyrenees and the sea. When he arrives tired from traveling, he goes there because it is a space that welcomes and heals him, where he regenerates better: “Happiness is returning to familiar places. A part of my happiness is returning to Sant Llorenç, which is part of my life; this is where we end up going for walks to celebrate good things.” His passion for the mountains has become the perfect excuse to give him gifts: “I could put on a fashion show, nothing to do with Grandpa's espadrilles and velvet trousers.” His favorite place in Catalonia is this landscape with a geological typology similar to Montserrat, with a lot of human intervention – there are charcoal pits and forestry work has been done – where episodes of the Carlist wars also took place and there were refugees after the Civil War. He has magnificent memories of walking with his father and grandfather, who told him stories of bandits and the war: “These stories, which are the ones that remain, are a way of humanizing the mountain and making it our own. I would like to pass on this emotional legacy,” he acknowledges. Walks in the natural park are also associated with the family dogs, who have been very present in the way of living with the mountains. He explains that walking is going there with the dog: “Now with Cala, but before with Xica, Linda or Xispa. It’s very hard for me to go if he’s not well, I feel sorry. I experience it as a betrayal”. Normally, they go on three or four-hour excursions, and they always try to avoid the main routes. On weekends there are thousands of people, but on their routes they only encounter six or seven; this way they can experience the mountain in a context of silence. They only like it to be broken by the sound of birds or an animal. Even when talking, they try to maintain this silence, "it's a way of respecting it, of taking care of it".