Descrizione
Open all year around, it is accessible at best between April and November. Managed by Alta Valle Brembana subsection of the Italian Alpine Club (CAI) and recently renovated, Alberto Zamboni bivouac is located in the Azzaredo-Casù forest, which consists mainly of wide pastures and extends over 114 hectars in the municipality of Mezzoldo, along the Bergamo slopes of the Orobic watershed.
The morphology of the slope - in the wooded part - is uniform: white and red firs predominate, with sporadic presence of beech, minor broad-leaved plants and pioneer flora, mostly in the colonization phase of the pasture.
The regional building was used in the productive activity production of the alpine pasture (“alpe”): (local "Bitto" PDO cheese is produced), which is also added - in recent years - to a tourist valorization, thanks to path n° 101 (Sentiero delle Orobie Centro-occidentali / Central-eastern Orobie Trail) which crosses the whole upper part of the pasture.
Equipment: the bivouac has: 4 sleeps, a table, a fireplace, electricity generated with solar panel, water, a gas cooker and a small amount of equipment for emergency work.
Accesses and travel times. From Fraccia (a hamlet of Mezzoldo) by path n° 124A: anout 2 hours; from Rifugio Madonna delle Nevi Hut, by path n° 124: 2 hours.
The hut sleeps 4 and has a table, a fireplace, electricity generated with solar panel, water and a gas stove.
Access and travel times: from Fraccia Mezzoldo path 124A about 2 hours; from Refuge Madonna delle Nevi of Mezzoldo path 124, in 2 hours.