Alpe Cova, Alpe Coa in Lecco dialect, is a locality and alp on Grignone at 1300 meters high, in the municipality of Pasturo in Valsassina.
Alpe Cova lies in a flat position where are located a number of mountain huts, most vintage, and a mountain lake, so small as to be a pond. From the alp, an oasis of peace and beauty, one can enjoy the wonderful view of the two Grigne, Grignetta and Grignone, or Southern Grigna and Northern Grigna, just in front of the Buco di Grigna (Hole of Grigna), which separates the two mountains.
The resort is easily accessible from Road Pasturo - Alpe Cova and many paths that cross, and it's passage for numerous hikers, that leave from Pasturo or Colle di Balisio, to Pialeral and higher, up to Rifugio Luigi Brioschi atop Grignone, or cyclist.
On the Internet
Alpe Cova is on many pages on the Internet,
Mountain huts
Arriving at the alp by Road Pasturo - Alpe Cova, at a road sign of cows danger, the look falls on the part of the mountain facing Pasturo, the big lawn of Costa Reor, 1,336 meters high, which divides the slope of Pasturo from the Valley of Grassi Lunghi. Hay is harvested and there are small crops, mainly raspberries.
Shortly afterwards, at a half-carved road on the dirt road towards the Grigne, one can see an inner space closed at the bottom by a chain, at the entrance there is a bulletin board for hanging sheets.
A road on the left comes off going up the mountain side, and there are other huts or houses.
To the right, higher and side of the pond, over a dry wall and three fir trees, a white house, bigger than the others, and other trees.
The small lake or pond
At Alpe Cova, however, attention and amazement are all for the small lake overlooking the Grigne, no longer than fifty meters wide and ten, and one should say puddle or pond. In fact, it is a natural depression on impermeable soil that collects water, used by shepherds to water cattle,
In the background of the pond landscape stands a long stone bath,
A strip of lawn bounded by a wooden fence surrounds the pond,
In the alpine pond reflect Grigne,
Two panels of Regional Park of the Northern Grigna
Close to a trace of trail and a few meters from the tub there are two educational panels of Regional Park of the Northern Grigna and Valsassina, Valvarrone, Val d'Esino and Riviera Mountain Community.
One is Geological and paleontological path of Pialeral.
The other one is Alpe Cova, the first of these 14 stations.
Roads, routes and trails
Alpe Cova is a crossing of roads, routes and trails:
- Agro-forestry-pastoral Road Pasturo - Alpe Cova,
[^] which can only be traveled by authorized vehicles - Private Road Alpe Cova - Pialeral,
[^] closed by a bar two hundred meters over the Alp - a dirt road that goes to Baita Amalia
- Sentiero Pasturo - Pialeral, which passes through Cornisella and Acquafredda, and arrive in about an hour and a half at the Alp on easy trail, joining to Road Pasturo - Alpe Cova. The trail continues for Pialeral, and by Sentiero Pialeral - Vetta arrives at Rifugio Brioschi, with two possible paths, summer trail and winter trail
- Sentiero Colle Balisio - Pialeral, which goes through Valle dei Grassi Lunghi. It is a much frequented trail, the quickest path to Pialeral and therefore preferred to Sentiero Pasturo - Pialeral as the first stretch from who goes to Rifugio Brioschi
- Sentiero Traversata Bassa Piani dei Resinelli - Torrente Pioverna - Pialeral. Traversata Bassa at Pialeral continues to the church of San Calimero
- Route Pedaling in Park 1, that comes from Traversata Bassa and arrives at Pialeral
Trails that pass by Alpe Cova are marked with signs and trail tables.
Signs and trail tables
The cemented road Alpe Cova - Pialeral is the common route to the above mentioned three trails to Pialeral. They cross, just above the pond fountain, on a metal pole there are the directions. Next to it, it is one of the many new panels Between Geology and Landscape installed on Grigna by Comunità Montana Valsassina, Valvarrone, Val d'Esino e Riviera, Parco regionale della Grigna Settentrionale, Sistema Parchi Lombardia e Natura 2000, this one faces karstism.
Returning to directions:
- a large wooden sign arrow-shaped, well carved, tip for the uphill road: Rifugio "Antonietta" Pialeral 10 minutes
- a wooden arrow to uphill: Rifugio Brioschi m. 2410 h. 2.30; a strip of metal with lock hides Open or Closed, leaving the other option visible
- a yellow trail table of CAI, towards mountain: Pialeral Northern Grigna Rifugio Brioschi. There was, until some time ago, another downhill: Grassi Lunghi Colle di Balisio
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Looking better, after a few meters along the uphill to Pialeral, on a pointed stone there are two horizontal tracks of CAI, 31 and 33,
On the road to Pasturo, a trail marker 33 is on a rock on the left, faded and almost erased, one on the right scarcely readable
Walking down a few meters a path, and at the same altitude of the pond, one is at the 'official' trails signage of Grigna by Comunità Montana Valsassina, Valvarrone, Val d'Esino e Riviera, which is the first for those who climb from Colle di Balisio.
On a metal pole are so many arrows, it is not the best visual effect, looks like a totem.
- looking downstream:
- trail table, upstream, on three lines: Traversata Bassa (uppercase), Rifugio Antonietta Pialeral 0.15 (minutes), San Calimero 1.10
- trail table, flat to the right, on three lines: Traversata Bassa (uppercase), Torrente Pioverna 0.30, Piani Resinelli 2.10
- location table, on three lines, Alpe Cova m1301 turning 180° and so looking upstream:
- table with a slightly tilted white bike on a red background, means you are on an itinerary Pedalling in the Park
- trail table, for the ascent, in the same direction of the first table in this list: Pialeràl - 1 and to the right a red circle
- trail table, towards the little lake e next to educational panels, and therefore to Strada Pasturo - Alpe Cova: Pasturo
The amazing thing is that the most popular trail, Colle di Balisio - Alpe Cova, is not marked by any signpost or arrow.
Feast of Alpe Coa
The next to last Sunday of July is held the Feast of Alpe Coa,
The eventful day of Pasturo begins, in recent years, with two non-competitive races, a mountain running race and a mountain bike one.
Towards midday, around the pond, a Mass is celebrated,
Alpe Cova for me
Alpe Cova for me is a traditional and dear place, summer and sometimes winter, and can be either a destination or a passage.
If Alpe Coa, the Coa, is arrival, the length of the path is the right one to keep me trained, I run slowly. So, I enjoy the day lying on the bench,
When Alpe Cova is a passage to other trails or a place to reach, there is time to drink at the fountain and enjoy a few moments of the beauty of the place, often contemplating the two Grigne. From the top, before the melancholy to leave those places, a quick glance is enough,
The biggest emotion is the arrival at Alpe Cova from Pasturo's road. After the semicurve and the mountain huts, the hiker from the meadows above Pasturo is catapulted to a remarkable alpine scenery, or prealpine: the view of the small lake and the two Grigne, which at each meter become larger.
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