Trekking Alta Via dell’Adamello – Sentiero numero 1

Trekking from Bazena through Rifugio Tita Secchi and Rifugio Maria e Franco to Passo di Campo – 24-26 June 2016

On the way from Bazena

Passo della Vacca – The cow rock (with horns!) Although it’s actually a ‘mucca’

Rigufio Tita Secchi at Lago della Vacca (2367m). There is a small hydroelectric plant here

Lago della Vacca

“Watermelon snow”

Early in the season and I also had to cross this snowy slope

Passo di Blumone – 2633m

Hello World

Via Ferrata section on the way to Passo Brescia

Passo Brescia – 2713m

Now find your way to the Rifugio! Can you tell where it is..?

Final approach – and the hardest of all, a very steep slope of snow, downhill…

Finaly, at Passo Dernel

Good afternoon and view to Val Pagheria

Rifugio Maria e Franco – 2574m

This is the slope I descended from the pass

High altitude grazing

and the view only gets better

Home away from home

and the view gets even better

colors are changing

and changing

Evening view. In the year 2001, this pass was covered with 14(!) meters of deep snow

Bomb casings from World War One

Hello World II Suricata

Just opening the season

Loyal hut keepers – 25 years on the mountain

The icy lake beneath

Icy formations

Melting landscape

Melting landscape II

Interplay

Passo del Gatto – 2396m

View to M.te Re di Castello – 2866m

World War One tunnel

World War One Barracks

View to Pozza d’Arno (1897m) and Lago d’Arno (1810m), before heading down to Valle Camonica