GTA: Stage 66A Trinità di Entracque - Vallone degli Alberghi

Highlights and tour details

From Trinità di Entracque, go along the Bousset valley along the carriage road that passes Tetti Porcera and ends at the homonymous bridge at 1078 metres. A long dirt road (signpost M5) begins from here that passes the Suffiet Bridge, brushes Gias Ischietto (about 1350 m) and ends at Gias Valera Sottano (1517 m). The mule track that follows leads to a fork at an altitude of 1583 m where the branch-off to the Passo della Mena (route M24) went off to the left. Because of landslides it is necessary to keep on the orographic left as far as Gias dell'Adreit where a crossing allows you to go over the stream on a footbridge and go up up to meet the M24 route. Follow it to the right along a small traverse up to an altitude of about 1707 metres. From this point, the route leaves the valley and gradually climbs directly up the slope that on the left leads to a hillock at an altitude of 2058 m, along the ridge that will lead shortly afterwards to Passo della Mena (2201 m), a connecting pass with Vallone degli Alberghi. From the Pass you go down a long and steep traverse towards north-east heading to the basin below where there is the lower Lago del Frisson (2054 m). You pass the emissary of the lake and continue to descend on a steep path among grass and rocks that passes upstream of the tiny Lago Vilazzo until you reach the grassy ridge on which stands the recently restored Gias Vilazzo (1823 m). A last traverse among pines, pastures and rhododendrons leads almost to the bottom of the valley at the crossroads with the path to Lago degli Alberghi (1730 m).