weekend hiking in the Apuan Alps Park for groups and individuals period from May to October Program Friday afternoon - Arrival and accommodation at the hotel. Welcome Dinner - (for groups meeting with the guide for submission of park land and hiking possible.) Saturday - After breakfast, excursion to the Hermitage of San Campocatino and Viano. From the hotel, following the signs of the Garfagnana Trekking and go up the country Screeners di Sopra, for example to visit the Church of San Lorenzo, then continue on until CAI 177/GT pasturing of Campocatino beautifully nestled at the foot of the rocky wall Roccandagia. One of the typical box of the small village, houses the visitor center of the oasis LIPU. From here we start to follow a circular route, the "nature trail" that runs along the edges of the large glacier valley until you reach the junction for the steep mule track that reaches the hermitage of San Viano, mystical place, where wild nature and religion coexist in total harmony. Return to the hotel late afternoon for dinner and overnight. Average walking time starting from the hotel hours 5.30/6.00 flights directly from Campocatino (reachable by car) 3 hours Difference S / D 550 m. Sunday - After breakfast, hike along the Via Vandelli Pass Tambura and refuge in Conti. (NB. For groups with their bus after the route is also possible to propose to cross to the village of Resceto, (MS) to return to your destination from the highways of the Tyrrhenian coast. From the trail Garfagnana Trekking Screeners di Sopra, then signs for Valley Arnetola. From here the trail begins CAI 35 which traces the eighteenth-century Via Vandelli, built by Duke Francesco III d'Este to join Modena Massa. Incomparable view from the Pass Tambura and windows Vandelli, from where, in short, to Rifugio Nello Conti CAI. Average walking time: 7.30 am crossed with return on Screeners 6.30 |