Highlights and tour details
From Talosio you reach the hamlet of Posio and continue following the GTA signs. You will pass through the Arzola Alps and then, making a wide curve towards the north, you reach a flat ridge which you follow in a north-west direction. You pass near Punta Arzola (2158 m) and continue along the path to Sella d'Oregge (2175 m). After you start to descend on the opposite side and, after crossing a marked watershed, you reach Alpe Giassetto. Continue along the hillside going slightly downhill at first and then with a steeper slope you reach the plateau near the dike of the Lake Eugio reservoir at an altitude of 1875 metres. You then go up some steps on the left to reach a square below the dam guard’s house and continue to the left following a small road (cutting a hairpin bend with a short cut to a rocky slab) until you reach the junction at an altitude of 1828 m. Here you take the path on the right that begins to climb towards Alpe la Colla. After the Alpe you reach the pass behind the huts and the PNGP hut, continue along the traverse with some ascents and descents that, passing a couple of canals, allows you to reach the huts of Alpe Praghetta Superiore (2160 m). Then you start the descent following the trail through the meadow, passing the alpine pastures of Praghetta Inferiore and La Cà and then the much more marked trail in the woods until reaching the hamlet of San Lorenzo.
Other information
Itinerary code: GPC
Provinces crossed: Torino
Departure, arrival and municipalities crossed
Stages
- Grande Traversata delle Alpi - GTA: Central Piedmont Section (221,00 km)
- GTA: Tappa 27 Rifugio Rivetti - Santuario di San Giovanni d'Andorno (14,70 km)
- GTA: Tappa 28 Santuario di San Giovanni d'Andorno - Santuario di Oropa (8,10 km)
- GTA: Tappa 29 Santuario di Oropa - Rifugio Coda (9,70 km)
- GTA: Tappa 30 Rifugio Coda - Alpe Maletto (10,00 km)
- GTA: Stage 31 Frazione Maletto - Fraz. Capanne (Quincinetto) (12,30 km)
- GTA: Stage 32 Le Capanne di Quincinetto - Frazione Fondo di Traversella (13,00 km)
- GTA: Stage 33 Frazione Fondo di Traversella - Frazione Piamprato di Valprato Soana (12,00 km)
- GTA: Stage 34 Piamprato - Ronco Canavese (18,90 km)
- GTA: Stage 35 Ronco Canavese - Talosio (10,50 km)
- GTA: Stage 36 Frazione Talosio di Ribordone - Frazione San Lorenzo di Locana (13,80 km)
- GTA: Stage 37 Frazione San Lorenzo di Locana - Noasca (16,00 km)
- GTA: Stage 38 Noasca - Borgata Brengi di Ceresole Reale (10,50 km)
- GTA: Stage 39 Borgata Brengi di Ceresole Reale - Frazione Pialpetta di Groscavallo (14,20 km)
- GTA: Stage 40 Frazione Pialpetta di Groscavallo - Balme (16,00 km)
- GTA: Stage 41 Balme - Frazione Villaretto di Usseglio (13,60 km)
- GTA: Stage 42 Frazione Villaretto di Usseglio - Località Malciaussia di Usseglio (7,60 km)
- GTA: Stage 43 Località Malciaussia di Usseglio - Borgata Trucco di Mompantero (14,90 km)
- GTA: Stage 44 Borgata Trucco di Mompantero - Susa (6,70 km)
- GTA: Stage 44A Susa station - Alpe Toglie (Mattie) (11,60 km)
- GTA: Stage 44B Alpe Toglie (Mattie) - Usseaux (16,10 km)
- GTA: Stage 45 Susa railway station - Rifugio Arlaud (23,50 km)
- GTA: Stage 46 Rifugio Arlaud - Usseaux (15,40 km)
- GTA: Stage 47 Usseaux - Massello (23,10 km)
- GTA: Stage 48 Massello - Ghigo di Prali (12,90 km)
- GTA: Stage 49 Ghigo di Prali - Villanova Pellice (18,00 km)
- GTA: Stage 50 Villanova Pellice - Rifugio Barbara Lowrie (14,60 km)