Highlights and tour details
From Pradleves you retrace your steps of the previous day and then leave the asphalt road and head towards the Santuario della Madonna degli Angeli. After a short stretch along the path the track returns to the forest track again and continues through the villages of Cugn and Gerbido. From Gerbido you have to find the path (signs) that goes uphill to the forest track that connects the Gerbido Pass and the Gerbido Cross. Once you have reached the forest track, follow it, always on the north side, until it ends and you return to the path again. Then you go up the ridge that goes up to Punta del Mezzogiorno to reach Monte Chialmo (where there is a characteristic compass rose). From the summit you descend to Colle della Margherita. You continue to descend in the direction of Grange Saria where a new forest track finally reaches the Borgata Valliera where the refuge is located.
Other information
Itinerary code: CUA
Classification: Medium and low mountain provincial
Provinces crossed: Cuneo
Departure, arrival and municipalities crossed
Stages
- Curnis Auta (119,49 km)
- Curnis Auta: Stage 1 Caraglio - Rifugio La Scola (11,03 km)
- Curnis Auta: Stage 2 Rifugio La Scola - Pradleves (14,65 km)
- Curnis Auta: Stage 3 Pradleves - Rifugio La Valliera (13,08 km)
- Curnis Auta: Stage 4 Rifugio La Valliera - Santuario di San Magno (14,17 km)
- Curnis Auta: Stage 5A Santuario di San Magno - Colle di Viribianc (11,98 km)
- Curnis Auta: Stage 5B Località Langra - Frazione Chiappi (1,90 km)
- Curnis Auta: Stage 5C Grange Gustin - Passo Viridio (1,98 km)
- Curnis Auta: Stage 5 Santuario di San Magno - Bivacco Rousset (14,24 km)
- Curnis Auta: Stage 6 Bivacco Rousset - Rifugio Paraloup (10,43 km)
- Curnis Auta: Stage 6B Frazione Damiani - Rocca Stella (3,21 km)
- Curnis Auta: Stage 6A Frazione S. Lucia di Tetti Bosco - Bivacco Rousset (6,12 km)
- Curnis Auta: Stage 7 Rifugio Paraloup - Prato Gaudino (11,71 km)
- Curnis Auta: Stage 7A Hiking refuge San Matteo - Chiot Rosa (2,17 km)
- Curnis Auta: Stage 8 Prato Gaudino - Vignolo (2,82 km)