Highlights and tour details
From the village of Mombasiglio you go up the ridge through the Bric del Pilone and the Bric delle Forche (750 m asl) on a dirt road and a path, to arrive at the municipality of Scagnello after about a 5 km walk, bypassing it through the Cascina Cappelli and descending the riverbed of the Mongia River (500 m above sea level). From here you go up through the Rocca di Frefino to reach the 750 m above sea level border between the municipalities of Scagnelo and Lisio (loca Bric del Groppo). From here you reach the locality of S. Stefano along a ridge path and the stage arrival point in the municipality of Lisio.
Other information
Source: Unione Montana Alta Val Tanaro
Itinerary code: STA
Classification: Medium and low mountain provincial
Provinces crossed: Cuneo
Departure, arrival and municipalities crossed
Stages
- Sentiero Tanaro (STA) (236,00 km)
- Sentiero Tanaro: Stage 1 Dogliani (Historic town centre) - Clavesana (Loc. S. Giuseppe) (12,00 km)
- Sentiero Tanaro: Stage 1A Castellino Tanaro - Mombasiglio (14,70 km)
- Sentiero Tanaro: Stage 2A Mombasiglio - Lisio (11,50 km)
- Sentiero Tanaro: Stage 2 Clavesana (Loc. S. Giuseppe) - Castellino Tanaro (14,80 km)
- Sentiero Tanaro: Stage 3A Lisio - Viola St Gree (7,80 km)
- Sentiero Tanaro: Stage 3 Castellino Tanaro - Sale S. Giovanni (25,10 km)
- Sentiero Tanaro: Stage 4 Sale S. Giovanni - Priero (5,60 km)
- Sentiero Tanaro: Stage 4A: Viola St Gree - Pamparato (Borgo di Valcasotto) (13,20 km)
- Sentiero Tanaro: Stage 5A Pamparato (village of Valcasotto) - Frabosa Soprana (hamlet of Fontane) (15,00 km)
- Sentiero Tanaro: Stage 5 Priero - Nucetto (15,00 km)
- Sentiero Tanaro: Stage 6 Nucetto - Priola (Borgata Casario) (16,50 km)
- Sentiero Tanaro: Stage 6A Frabosa Soprana (Fraz.Fontane) - Ormea (Rifugio Valcaira) (14,80 km)
- Sentiero Tanaro: Stage 7 Priola (Fraz.Casario) - Garessio (Borg. Pian Bernardo, Fraz. di Trappa) (15,30 km)
- Sentiero Tanaro: Stage 7A Ormea (Rifugio Valcaira) - Chionea, Fraz. di Ormea (4,30 km)
- Sentiero Tanaro: Stage 8 Garessio (Borgata Pian Bernardo, Fraz. di Trappa) - Ormea (11,20 km)
- Sentiero Tanaro: Stage 9 Ormea - Quarzina (14,50 km)
- Sentiero Tanaro: Stage 10 Quarzina - Rifugio Mongioie (13,70 km)
- Sentiero Tanaro: Stage 11 Rifugio Mongioie - Rifugio Don Barbera (11,30 km)