Mount Sangiatto

Description

From the car park, take the short asphalt road that starts out from a metal barrier and goes into the beautiful huts of the village; continuing along the road that has become unpaved, you immediately come to a fork where you take another road on the right that rises through the coniferous forest, alternating between unpaved and paved stretches. We thus arrive, still on a comfortable mule track, at the small valley where the characteristic village of Crampiolo (1771m) is located. We do not cross it but, as soon as we cross the bridge over the stream, we turn right and take the evident path that rises at the edge of the wood on the left of the huts. Leave the path on the right (1792m, markers) that is immediately above the houses and, just beyond, leave another path on the right (1808m, markers) to rise to the left in the woods with a few hairpin bends and then make a traverse to the right passing next to a peat bog; go up some grassy/rocky bastions and cross a dirt track (1977m) that you follow for a few dozen metres and pass just above the first of the Sangiatto lakes (1993m). Continuing along the dirt track, you soon reach the Sangiatto alp, dominated from afar by the imposing mass of Monte Corbernas; Go past it on the right and, having gone round a low grassy ridge, you come to a post (2058m) that is not far from the other Sangiatto lake and continue to the left, where the slope soon increases, and climb up a grassy little valley that then widens out to reach the wide inlet of Bocchetta di Scarpìa (2250m). From the pass, ascend to the right trying to find a faint track that winds its way between the first grassy rises and follows the right side of the mountain's edge that descends steeply into the valley below, pointing to a col (2328m). Now the track climbs more steeply up a short section of the ridge and then makes a traverse to the right that contours the flank below the summit, coming out onto a wide grassy ridge from which the summit is soon reached, surmounted by an iron pole bent into an arch.