Descrizione
The path is recommended for wide panoramas, the environment and its sun exposure that keeps it viable even in winter season. You find wild rocky areas, fascinating mountain pine’s bushes and high altitude meadows. The rocks you can watch are the best samples of Lombard Verrucano (red siliceous rocks); the cliffs emerging from the vegetation (firs, larches, mountain pines, birches, rowans) give you a feeling of high altitude on an easy path. Along the way between 1800 and 1900 m of altitude, the numerous bird hunting huts, (in the past used as bird trapping facilities), are valuable works of popular architecture, examples of buildings perfectly integrated into the environment. They are the remains of an alpine culture that, in this area, has reached its maximum quantitative and qualitative development in the nineteenth century. Important to the local economy of old times, these buildings are now in a quite different reality and are going to disappear. It is right and desirable to keep their memory in iconography and literature. The path begins in Baresi village, Bonetti neighborhood, and climbs to the ENEL water basin and then to Roccolo del Giüstì (Justin Hunting hut- under restoration) at Cima Baresi (30 min). On an easy path or following the ridge, you get Roccolo di Tonète (Tony hunting hut- ruin). Following the ridge, with a fast detour of 5 min (signaled crossroad) you can reach the nearby “Porta delle Cornacchie” (“Door of Crows” (mysterious megalithic boulders and spectacular panorama). Return at the crossroad and go downhill to the restored seventeenth-century Roccolo Piacezzi (hunting hut owned by Piacezzi family and then by Paladini Orgneri family), Latin marble tablet of 1848 (20 min). The path reaches the Madonna del Vendulo, at the pass of the same name, and then the beautiful Fraggio hamlet - in this stretch there are some ancient huts (20 mins). Shortly before Cornelli hut turn left and climb steeply at Füslì – (1508 m), ruins of a hut and beautiful view over Cornelli hut and Capovalle village. The path follows on easy rocks, passes near a small spring and climbs northward along a big rock on the left and then reaches a pass (1736 m, beautiful view on Roncobello and Baresi villages). From here get Roccolo del Corno (Horn hut 1814 m - 1.30 h) on the watershed between Valsecca and Fondra valleys. Now head east to Roccolo della Fontana (Fountain hut 1866 m) still in use, drinkable water available. Going ahead you get “Roccolo del Meschino” or “dei Larici”(1899 m) also still in use. Following eastward you find the detour to Cima Mencucca and then the sign to Tre Pizzi bivouac. Finally, on the slope of Tre Pizzi, you you get “Roccolo del Veroppio” then the "Pozza"(pond) and the Campo hut (1879 m) in the beautiful meadow overlooking on the Mezzeno basin, with a wide sight on Arera peak and on Menna Mount (1.30 h). Just downhill the hut there is Roccolo di Campo (Campo hunting hut 1817 m), still in activity. Heading on eastwards, at the end of the meadow, go beyond Roccolo del Tino (hunting hut) and downhill you cross the 215 path to Gemelli Lakes, finally you reach the parking area of Mezzeno huts (1593 m).