Versasio - Bivacco Magnodeno

General Notes:

Altitude Difference: 650 m

Time: 2 h

Altitude Difference: Normal

Difficulty: E

Description:

Leaving the car at the car park of the cable car to piani d'erna, we walk along path number 1 to the Resegone.

We descend for a few meters, after passing the cable car station, up to a paved road where we will turn right.

We will follow it until the end when the road will be blocked by a wooden gate of a farm,the path goes up to the left of this farm.

We follow the path to the resort of Costa, in this stretch that lasts about 20', the climb is not complicated and quite flat.

Once in Costa, we will reach a junction where we will have to keep to the right,avoiding path number 1 but taking the signs for path 1A..

After as soon as 300 m we will find another indication,where we should always keep to the right,following the signs for the educational path,however after another 200 m we will have to turn left following a path that goes up in the middle of the birch and beech forest,avoiding following the path with the sign of the educational path.

We climb slightly along the path until we meet a wooden bridge on the river Bione,after which after not even 30 m of climb,we arrive in a beautiful meadow where there is a small cabin.

After which we return again to the beech and birch forest, we find ourselves again at a crossroads where we will keep to the left following this time the sign indicating "Magnodeno".

We make a short climb and descend that will make us cross a second stream, and then resume climbing with slight slopes up to an aqueduct,a fountain where we can stop to rest.

We walk a short stretch between woods and meadows leading us to the intersection with the path that goes up from Campo dei Boi,we are again inside the beech and birch forest,very clean in this stretch,with large piles of wood and a lot of fascina.

After this stretch, the real climb begins, the path comes out of the woods and the slopes become higher.

The route goes up very quickly, with hairpin bends that allow us to breathe,the view is beautiful, we can admire the Resegone, the Crest of the mare and the view towards Lecco and its lake.

These paths are the last 300 m of difference in altitude, just before reaching the ridge of the Magnodeno, the path flattens entering albeit briefly,about 40 m, in a beautiful hardwood forest.

Coming out of which we reach the ridge of Magnodeno, the bivouac is not very far about 5 ' walk, and in this stretch we meet various paths that rejoin ours such as the one that goes up from Germanedo and the one from the mountaineers Hut Monzesi.

In the last meters that lead us to the Bivouac there is a chain that helps us in our ascent, even if it is superfluous, except downhill where the less experienced and insecure can use it without fear.