Highlights and tour details
From Molini di Calasca you cross the Anza stream and climb up along an asphalt road to the Patei bridge. Cross the bridge and enter Val Segnara along the left side of the stream as far as Balm da dlà (Balma di là ). From here the mule track begins to climb with a few hairpin bends in a chestnut grove and then continues along the stream with an up and down stretch as far as the crossroads to Val Rosin (741 m). Keep left for Alpe Lago continuing uphill through a beautiful beech wood and passing first through Alpe Pozzetto (1136 m) and then Alpe Camino (1438 m). From here on, the vegetation thins out and the head of Valle Segnara opens up. Going along a last stretch on the hillside you reach the Alpe Lago basin where the Amedeo Pirozzini Bivouac (1545 m) is located. From here you shortly reach the hill above and descend on the opposite side of Valle Arsa reaching Alpe Pian Lago (1743 m) and the bivouac that is always open in the municipality of Pieve Vergonte.
Other information
Itinerary code: GPN
Provinces crossed: Distretto dei Laghi
Departure, arrival and municipalities crossed
Stages
- Grande Traversata delle Alpi - GTA: Tratto Nord Piemonte (476,00 km)
- GTA: Stage 1 Cannobio - Falmenta (13,20 km)
- GTA: Stage 2 Falmenta - Malesco (16,90 km)
- GTA Variant of Alta Valle dell'Isorno: Stage 3B Alpe Cortevecchio - Alpe Lago (6,60 km)
- GTA: Stage 3 Malesco - Fondomonfracchio (16,40 km)
- GTA Variant of Alta Valle dell'Isorno: Stage 3c Alpe Lago - Campo Valle Maggia (15,20 km)
- GTA Variant of Alta Valle dell'Isorno: Stage 3A Malesco - Alpe Cortevecchio (0,00 km)
- GTA: Stage 4 Fondomonfracchio - Capanna Alpe Arena (13,50 km)
- GTA: Stage 5 Capanna Alpe Arena - Campo Valle Maggia (12,60 km)
- GTA: Stage 6 Campo Valle Maggia - Bosco Gurin (11,60 km)
- GTA: Stage 7 Bosco Gurin - Formazza Loc. Ponte (13,00 km)
- GTA: Stage 8A Canza - Lago Vannino (6,50 km)
- GTA: Stage 8B Riale - Alpe Cruina (12,90 km)
- GTA: Stage 8 Ponte - Riale (6,30 km)
- GTA: Stage 8C Riale - Nufenenpass (11,50 km)
- GTA: Stage 9 Riale - Alpe Vannino (7,80 km)
- GTA: Stage 10 Alpe Vannino - Alpe Devero (14,50 km)
- GTA: Stage 11 Alpe Devero - Alpe Veglia (13,40 km)
- GTA: Stage 12 Alpe Veglia - Alpe Solcio (12,60 km)
- GTA: Stage 12A Alpe Veglia - Varzo (19,00 km)
- GTA: Stage 13 Alpe Solcio - Varzo (5,40 km)
- GTA: Stage 14 Varzo - Alpe Arza (0,00 km)
- GTA: Stage 15 Alpe Arza - Alpe Laghetto (0,00 km)
- GTA: Upper Anzasca and Antrona Valleys Stage 15A Rifugio Alpe Laghetto - Rifugio Andolla (via Passo Pontimia) (6,80 km)
- GTA Variant of Alte Valli Anzasca and Antrona: Stage 16A Rifugio Alpe Laghetto - Rifugio Andolla (12,30 km)
- GTA Variant of Alti Valli Anzasca and Antrona: Stage 16B Rifugio Andolla - Cingino Bivouac (11,20 km)
- GTA Variant of the High Valleys of Anzasca and Antrona: Stage 16D Oberto Refuge - Macugnaga (6,90 km)
- GTA Variant of Alti Valli Anzasca and Antrona: Stage 16C Cingino bivouac - Rifugio Oberto (11,20 km)
- GTA: Stage 16 Alpe Laghetto - Cheggio (11,50 km)
- GTA Variant of the Upper Anzasca and Antrona Valleys: Stage 16E Macugnaga - Rifugio Buon Pastore (20,90 km)
- GTA Variant of Alti Valli Anzasca and Antrona: Stage 16F Buon Pastore Refuge - Sant'Antonio of Val Vogna (3,90 km)
- GTA: Stage 17 Antrona, hamlet of Cheggio - Della Colma Refuge (13,70 km)
- GTA: Stage 18 Rifugio della Colma - Molini di Calasca (7,30 km)
- GTA Stage 19 Molini di Calasca - Alpe Pian Lago (10,80 km)
- GTA Stage 20: Alpe Pian Lago - Campello Monti (5,90 km)
- GTA Stage 21: Campello Monti - Rimella (8,60 km)
- GTA Tappa 22: Rimella - Alpe Baranca (10,80 km)
- GTA Stage 23 Alpe Baranca - Carcoforo (8,70 km)
- GTA Stage 24 Carcoforo - Rima (8,20 km)
- GTA: Stage 25 Rima - Sant'Antonio di Val Vogna (15,80 km)
- GTA: Stage 26 Sant'Antonio di Val Vogna - Rivetti Refuge (15,10 km)