Sentiero Pasturo - Pialeral (from Cornisella to Alpe Cova)

Sentiero Pasturo - Pialeral (from Cornisella to Alpe Cova) is a part of Sentiero Pasturo - Pialeral on Grignone in Pasturo, between 1,050 meters and 1,350 meters, it takes about forty minutes.

Walked the first part of Sentiero Pasturo - Pialeral from Pasturo to Cornisella arriving at the Church of the Alpini at Cornisella, at the crossroads a CAI's yellow trail table shows Pialeral Northern Grigna Rifugio Brioschi for the Road Pasturo - Alpe Cova, the old horizontal signage 33 is on a small wall next to the little church. The road goes up with a gentle slope, a nice yellow house is on the right; a short sinuous stretch leads to Acquafredda, another trail table confirms the direction of the road, leaving another to the right. It goes down to Cold Water Bridge on Torrente Cornisella, after which an arrow indicates right "Rifugio Antonietta" Pialeral No Car Only Pedestrians min. 0.45, under another Vehicles left on the road Pasturo - Alpe Cova, near the bridge a fountain with a tank, engraved a date 24-05-1933.

The climb starts very steep, is a mule track cemented with slight incisions inclined a few degrees to the horizontal to improve adherence in a forest of ashes and then firs, where from above you see the Cold Water Bridge and the Road Pasturo - Alpe Cova to Cornisella. After a hundred meters of sheer fatigue, turn right where the trail becomes cobbled and appears Baita La Riva, m. 1125, beside the trail its name on a wooden sign, a tap and a small tub as a wash, and above a small window a tablet with a small drawing showing a summary description of the path Pasturo - Pialeral - Rifugio Brioschi and written we are here.

Now a straight one hundred meters long in slight slope, in the shadow of fir trees with on the left a wooden fence, leads to a hairpin bend to the right where there is a fountain, on the left a dirt road that we ignore.
The fountain, ideal to drink again, has a long stone bath and a wooden roof supported by two trunks leaning on a stone wall, above the tube from which the water comes out 20-08-2012. It turns the tight hairpin, continuing in the woods now of birches, beech and firs trees with wooden fence on right, then with steeper slope where the trail returns to concrete and others hairpins up at the sight of a lawn.
Two signs of the Province of Lecco say: Should be noted that less than 50 meters from this table is active a hunting fixed stakeout Governing Law, in fact it is just there in the meadow, a small green building sheet just hidden by shrubs; the big piaster of Grignone now appears closer, and another sign of the Province of Lecco equal to the other twos for who descend.
Reached a crossroads, a large sign with two white writings on blue Pialeral Rifugio Brioschi, two arrows on the left. In some detailed maps I read that we are in Canta Curtone.

Proceed almost flat on the pebbles of the trail, an old farmhouse is above the lawn, then a dirt road you leave down, to continue for a short stretch of moderate slope with a small beech forest to the right, facing north and shade.
The view opens up wonderfully on Altopiano Valsassina, its countries and Piani di Bobbio, below at about one thousand meters high places of Grignone Cornisella, Spinarolo and Brunino, we are about 200 meters in altitude above. Two houses are looming, down a big house looking recently, Annovi home, and just above the trail, a white vintage mountain hut with yellow shutters well maintained, then you follow the road along the lawn.
You get to the last ramp of this section where there is a fountain with a bathtub from which falls always water and a road that goes right, a wooden sign with two voices say Rifugio "Antonietta" and Pialeral left, an horizontal 33 marker appears on a stone. The bottom is concrete to allow the descent of vehicles headed to the huts.

You cross the agro forestry pastoral road Pasturo - Alpe Cova where there is a bend to the left and a group of huts, on a pole a wooden arrow Pasturo from where you climbed.
You proceed along the road with to the right the steep meadows of the coast of Pialeral and in five minutes with some slight bend you come to the 1300 meters of Alpe Cova preceded by a road sign on the right danger cows.

The path of Sentiero Pasturo - Pialeral, Sentiero 33 of CAI, from Cornisella to Alpe Cova is really beautiful, you leave the first section from Pasturo to Cornisella closer to valley to enter into the mountain, Grignone, or Northern Grigna as you call it, which appears in all its beauty. The air is thinner and the temperature gradually drops, the vegetation becomes of firs and beeches. You feel the bond between the man and his mountain, the huts scattered in nature, fields cultivated on slopes, the distant ringing of cattle on the grassy pastures, sometimes goats and sheeps, with the view of Valsassina opening and you enjoy the arrival to Alpe Cova and the rest. In the opposite direction the descent is really nice, easy and fast.