HIKING IN THE ALTOPIANO – Trail 102

102. Croce di Salven m.1109 – Giovetto di Paline – Malga Creisa – Roccolo del Gati’ – Passo Costone m. 1937 1937

Route characteristics

Itinerary that takes place within the “Boschi del Giovetto” Nature Reserve. At first it is a wide mule track, then a path through woods and pastures. Vast panoramas over the Valle Camonica in the province of Brescia and the Val di Scalve in the province of Bergamo.

Description

Trail 102 begins about four hundred meters after Croce di Salven, reachable by car from Borno. Take a dirt track on the right (see arrow) and cross a bridge over a stream, Val dei Frasen, on whose bank there is a rest area with benches. The route continues flat, crosses the Val Marsa stream and passes alongside a spring embellished by a larch wood carved fountain. A short climb leads into a magnificent coniferous forest. You reach a grassy clearing (“Crus del pelat”), where another picnic area is located, a few hundred meters away from the Giovetto m. 1275. 1275. Once you reach the pass, turn right onto the mule track that climbs to cross a flat lane which you follow to the right up to a large clearing near a bulletin board. Opposite is the Roccolo del Giovetto m. 1309. 1309. Following the lane, that climbs to the right of the notice board, you reach the pasture and Malga Creisa m. 1459 (1 hr), from where you can admire Presolana and Ferrante. Go up the meadow behind the fountain, following the tracks of an old forest road. Once you reach the wood, turn left, cross it diagonally up to a ridge, which you climb up on a steep slope up to Roccolo del Gatì m. 1707 (1:30 hrs). Continuing along the path, now less steep, which offers ever vaster panoramas, you arrive at a pond m. 1763. 1763. Keeping to the ridge that acts as a watershed between Val Camonica and Val di Scalve, go up two hillocks and reach the Costone pass m. 1937 (2 hrs). At the pass, trail 83 intersects: on the right it leads to the San Fermo refuge and on the left to Passo di Corna Busa.