Sentiero Pasturo - Pialeral (descent)

I run Sentiero Pasturo - Pialeral descent for most of the time repeating the same trail from where I went up. Sometimes I go down from higher Rifugio Brioschi, Comolli, other from Pialeral, Rifugio Antonietta al Pialeral, or go through only a part from Alpe Cova, Cornisella.

I go down from the plan of Pialeral at 1430 meters paying attention to the steep slippery descent of small stones, gravel and horizontal trunks, and more quickly going along Costa through Rifugio Antonietta, the yellow restored mountain hut, the shaft that prevents the car passage up to the concrete downhill, the little lake is already there.
I slow down the pace along the dirt road, if I'm thirsty I drink, now in plan I look at Cascina Cova to 1300 meters, I know that in short will be a memory.

I run along the Road Pasturo - Alpe Cova in part shade, in winter sometimes snow ends here as the cool on the summer hot days, after the wooden hut I leave the road at the hairpin for the short but steep section of the trail, on concrete I read 1980.
I go on in level overcoming the two huts, arriving shortly at the junction that right after the hunting fixed stakeout lead to the woods and the steep descent. A look at the fountain at the hairpin, if I'm thirsty I drink again, then straight in the shadow and the best part is over but there is still Cornisella. After Baita La Riva the steep descent to the compression of Cold Water Bridge and the small ascent at Acquafredda for Cornisella along the road that sometimes you feel in legs and breath.

I'm at Cornisella 1050 meters, after 20, 25 minutes from Pialeral, I stop at the small Church of the Alpini Maria Regina Pacis for a sip at the fountain and down goodbye.
Here the hut in stone of Cornisella low, and move! down into the woods, watch out to bumpy trail up to the bend of Monteno, down left for the huts and in short I'm on the two bridges on Torrente Cariola, the Our Lady of the Rosary still sees me go.
Here in the summer the heat is felt, now you just have the trail by large cobbles, a little attention and I arrive at the small gate of villa Pozzi and to the houses of Via Cantellone in Pasturo, forty-five minutes after departure if I hurry otherwise an hour.

Grignone a farewell hoping is good bye.

Sentiero Pasturo - Pialeral

Sentiero Pasturo - Pialeral is a trail of Grignone, ie Grigna Settentrionale, or in another way on the Mounts of Pasturo, between 650 meters of Pasturo and 1430 meters at Pialeral passing through Cornisella and Alpe Cova. The itinerary has no difficulty, is in fact largely a wide track, often in the shade, the trail time is one hour and a half walking. It's popular in every season, trek in part or entirely.

Sentiero Pasturo - Pialeral has been marked in the past by Club Alpino Italiano, with number 33 that is Sentiero 33 Pasturo - Pialeral, first part, almost half, of the path leading from Pasturo to Rifugio Brioschi and the top of the mountain is just above the refuge at 2409 meters, the highest point of Grigne. From Pialeral the path continues as Sentiero Pialeral - Rifugio Brioschi. Many walkers fit into the trail at Alpe Cova by Sentiero Colle di Balisio - Pialeral, number 31 of CAI, shortest way to reach Pialeral and for someone continue to Rifugio Brioschi.
The path Pasturo - Pialeral despite being one of the main of the mountain is not marked by Valsassina, Valvarrone, Val d'Esino and Riviera Mountain Community running Regional Park of the Northern Grigna. There are anyway many signs while not homogeneous among them, the old yellow trail tables by CAI as vertical signage, and those horizontal red and yellow paint now faded and in the middle 33, many wooden signs recent that always say Pialeral, Pedalling in the Park tables, you can not truly miss.

At Pasturo in Via Alessandro Manzoni taking Via Cantellone you start the trail where, near the corner at the top on a stone wall under the street sign, two big brown arrow signs say Northern Grigna and Pialeral, and the horizontal marker 33 is on a wall. Past the last houses and coasting the garden wall of the house Pozzi, you take the cobbled trail uphill along Torrente Cariola with white railings, it leaves the stream immediately turning right along a villa.
You can also start along Torrente Cariola for a dirt path avoiding Via Cantellone there is a wooden arrow Pialeral Brioschi, from Via San Calimero a hundred meters ahead in the direction of the town center with indications such as in Via Cantellone, from Via Grigna without sign; Via San Calimero joins to Via Grigna and the last one with a mule track crosses that of Via Cantellone.
After the intersection of two paths, on the right the house in Via Grigna 30, in a shady stretch a sign of falling rocks and with a sharp and steep bend to the left with over a hut with a sloping roof it is in sight of Chapel of Our Lady of the Rosary at 739 meters high, a path to the right to Baiedo. After the chapel another mountain hut and a fountain where it crosses Torrente Cariola.
It exceeds the stream and a little valley with moderate slope westward reaching the houses of Monteno, a group on the left inside and right a yellow cabin oldest. Here a steep cemented section leads to intersection with the Road Pasturo - Alpe Cova accessible only by authorized vehicles. Passed the bend of the road the path turns right, it says Monteno 850 meters on a Pedalando nel Parco table and two entries Pialeral Brioschi on a wood arrow, also a large sign ban on driving for motorcycles.

The cemented mule rises very steep with some serpentine to pave at view of a meadow on the left topped with a white hut and a baitello (small hut) a little lower on the right where you see the sunny side of Grignone. You enter into a dense forest to get out ten minutes later to a big stone hut overlooking on the left meadows and high-tension wires. Following the row of small trees at left of the trail you arrive soon at the intersection with Strada Pasturo - Alpe Cova where there is the Church of the Alpini Maria Regina Pacis and a fountain with its precious water. It has traveled Sentiero Pasturo - Pialeral in its first stretch from Pasturo to Cornisella.

At the crossroads many signs and a trail marker by CAI indicates Pialeral Northern Grigna Rifugio Brioschi to the road, the location table by Valsassina, Valvarrone, Val d'Esino and Riviera Mountain Comunity says Cornisella 1050 meters, while an horizontal trail marker 33 appears faded on a wall next to the small church. You continue for about 500 meters along the agro-forestry-pastoral road Pasturo - Alpe Cova going down to Acquafredda and Cold Water Bridge over Torrente Cornisella, a fountain has good water. You start to breathe the air of Grignone, fatigue and sweat give way to happiness and the joy of heart for this second part of Sentiero Pasturo - Pialeral from Cornisella to Alpe Cova, to the dear places of Alpe Cova and Pialeral.

After the bridge it bends sharply to the right following a sign Rifugio "Antonietta" Pialeral No Car Pedestrians Only 45 minutes. Soon a steep climb in concrete and some serpentine, after a bend to the right, the bottom now of pebbles, it goes along La Riva cabin m. 1125 and going up with more gently sloping in the shade of pine trees you reach a fountain at a right-bend. You climb now in a forest of beech and fir on a concrete bottom to arrive at a fixed hunting stakeout and meadows with views of Grignone.
A blue sign indicates Brioschi Pialeral left, I'm at 1200 meters altitude, the climb is almost finished by now you will go up more gently to the west and I can enjoy the view of Altopiano Valsassina and its mountains. The view of the Alpe Cova and Costa Reor opens where there are two cabins, a recent under the path that I'm walking, and an older well-maintained just above. After a stone fountain, and finally on a rock 33, with a steeper stretch you out on the Road Pasturo - Alpe Cova.

In the short stretch that precedes the arrival at Alpe Cova I have time to think about myself, about what pushes to come up here and more in general to the man and the mountain, to the destination that soon will open, and the thoughts of all days seem so far away, that in the small delirium appears Alpe Cova preceded by its sign of danger cows: the first house in stone, the small center downhill with the huts, the wooden structure of the old Agriturismo Aliber and the little lake with the Grignetta.
Returned to me, I taste the water at the long stone trough, sometimes I stop in the shade to 1300 meters at Alpe Cova or I climb along the Coast leading to Pialeral. I watch Grignone, often meeting with other hikers who prefer Sentiero Colle di Balisio - Pialeral faster, or some few, from Traversata Bassa Piani dei Resinelli - Pialeral, someone go up, others down. At the crosstrails I give a quick glance at the long wooden sign Rifugio "Antonietta" Pialeral mt 1400 10 minutes, to the smaller one Rifugio Brioschi and at the two yellow trail tables, on a pointed stone two horizontal trail markers 31 and 33.
I go up the track of concrete, I overcome the barrier of the road and I dream again at the yellow hut recently renovated before the 1400 meters of Rifugio Antonietta al (at) Pialeral and of the other huts.

The last climb on slippery bottom helped by horizontal trunks leads to the plan of Pialeral, or Pialeràl, where signs mark upward the Summer route and Winter route to Rifugio Brioschi 2.30, on the right Traversata Bassa San Calimero 1 hour Rifugio Riva 2 hours.
But I go left, drinking my last water in a watering hole by pressing the button and I stop in one of the five wooden picnic tables in the large meadow at the bottom of Foppa del Ger where there was Rifugio Mario Tedeschi al Pialeral m. 1428.
A short rest and return.

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.

Acquafredda

Italiano

Acquafredda (in English Coldwater), or in full Località Acquafredda, is a place on Grigna Settentrionale along the agro-forestry-pastoral Road Pasturo - Alpe Cova and Sentiero Pasturo - Pialeral.[^] It is located about a hundred meters after Cornisella that follows without discontinuity; at 1066 meters high Cold Water Bridge (in Italian Ponte dell'Acqua Fredda) crosses Torrente Cornisella.[^][^]

Descprition

The road at Cornisella above Pasturo goes up to a small hill, then goes down with a slight slope for about 200 meters, with a curve at S-shape,[^] having on an edge a green painted iron protection and on the other some rocks;[^] as reference we are in Sentiero Pasturo - Pialeral's stretch from Cornisella to Alpe Cova. A dirt road branches off to the right of the main one, slightly uphill, where a few meters further there are some signs, which in truth should be moved to the fork of the two roads:[^]

• a yellow CAI's signpost table, an old signage, says to left on the main road in the direction to Alpe Cova with four written: Pialeral Rifugio Pialeral Northern Grigna Rifugio Brioschi
• another CAI trail table, that points to the dirt road: Church San Calimero Rifugio Riva
• a trail table of Valsassina, Valvarrone, Val d'Esino and Riviera Mountain Community: Risciol - 2 in the first line and Cant - 2 in the third, both for the dirt road

Going down form the main road, in front, it looms a lawn with a house in stone 50 meters far,[^] in the summer frequently open,[^] and then, suddenly, a beautiful glimpse of the Grignone appears.[^] Once getting closer, a bend is to the left, where, right, it is a sign now faded who knows how long ago of Mountain Community No. 16. On multiple lines, uppercase, one reads: Valsassina - Valvarrone Val d'Esino e Riviera Introbio Comune di Pasturo, big Strada di Servizio (Service Road), bigger and red It is forbidden the transit with the image of the road sign, in smaller black of motorized vehicles, with the exception of authorized service vehicles - Ex. Art. 26 L. R. 5-4-1976 N. 8. Below, in two sentences, other prohibition of transit and the article of contraventions.[^]

After the bend, one is at Cold Water Bridge, on Torrente Cornisella, with green railings,[^] preceded by a road sign of ban on driving over 6.00 t.[^]

Passed the small bridge, to right a little inside, a fountain with a stone bath from which it flows a really cold water, with engraved in the rock 24.05.1933 and R. 2010.[^]
Along the road, on a pole, there are two arrows on white table, the first one, "Rifugio Antonietta" Pialeral No Car Only Pedestrians min. 0,45, indicates uphill to a cemented trail, the second one, below, Vehicles,[^] to the road that continues slightly to the left, where are other huts.

Acquafredda for me

Acquafredda for me, uphill is the view of the mountain, the hut and the refreshment at the fountain. Descending from Grignone, in the small incline leading to Cornisella,[^] while I greet the mountain asking myself if I will come back again, from how badly my legs and back hurt me and how much strength has remained I understand my physical condition and my state of health.

References

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Sentiero Pasturo - Pialeral (from Pasturo to Cornisella)

Italiano

Sentiero Pasturo - Pialeral (from Pasturo to Cornisella) is a mule track that can be covered on foot in about 45 minutes from Pasturo to Cornisella with a difference in height of 400 meters, from 650 meters in the village of Valsassina to 1050 meters, on the Northern Grigna.[^][^] Cornisella is located approximately in the middle of the overall route, on the agricultural-forestry-pastoral road Pasturo - Alpe Cova and crossing of several paths. From Pialeral, the path continues to Brioschi Refuge, on the top of the mountain.

From Pasturo to Monteno

Leave Pasturo by taking in Via Alessandro Manzoni one of the following streets, Via Cantellone, Via Grigna, Via San Calimero or along the Cariola stream, the paths join a little further up. I go up to Via Cantellone, where at the intersection with Via Manzoni there are two arrow road signs on a brown background, Grigna Settentrionale (Northern Gigna) and Pialeral, and on a wall a horizontal sign 33, up to Cornisella there is no other sign 33. The numbering dates back to several years ago, when the paths of the Grigne were managed by the CAI.
Walking on the asphalt of Via Cantellone, on the right there are the last houses of the town and on the left you go along the wall of Villa Pozzi. After a few meters, at a half-bend to the left with a villa on the right, I see the white railing of a bridge over the Cariola stream and my heart begins to beat faster. Here is also a gate of the villa of the poet Antonia Pozzi, from which you can glimpse her garden, which can be seen as you descend. I take the cobbled mule track,[^] and I feel a strong emotion because I am going to Grigna. The stream is on the left, generally water flows. After less than a hundred meters, at a half-curve, there is a hut with two green shutters and on the right a large rather recent villa. The mule track joins that of Via Grigna and there is a wooden Pialeral sign towards the climb, you can't really go wrong.
First you meet on the left, a little hidden, a white three-storey house, Via Grigna 21, and on the right another, Via Grigna 30. A road sign indicates danger of falling rocks for no reason; it dates back to 1991, manufactured by i.s.o.v. road signs, acronym for Impresa Segnaletica Orizzontale Verticale. A sharp steep bend to the left, with a view of a hut with a sloping roof, leads to the Chapel of Our Lady of the Rosary at 739 meters; on two wooden signs, Pasturo down, Baiedo right.

You pass under the roof of the chapel, I turn my gaze in search of Mary and once again I wonder who the two saints frescoed alongside are; behind it, there's a well-kept and inhabited cabin. You still cross a bridge over the Cariola stream, where there is a fountain with a concrete basin and a pipe that drains the water into the stream. On the stone we read a date, IX VIII XIII which could be 1913, and E F. I quench my thirst at the fountain, both uphill and downhill, for short distances I don't bring water even in summer, just I find it as far as Alpe Cova. You enter a stretch of slight slope, shaded and cool; you cross a small valley with a bridge, as the first has railings. At a hairpin bend, the water drops where there is a small abandoned farmhouse, continue along a stretch with dry stone wall only on the right up to the Monteno huts. On the left a group of houses and a dirt road that goes inside, on the right a yellow hut that will be perhaps a hundred years old, it belongs to the Invernizzi family. The mule track of the Sentiero Pasturo - Pialeral climbs steeply with a concrete bottom until it crosses the agro-forestry-pastoral road Pasturo - Alpe Cova, which has a bend to the left. A Pasturo wooden sign indicates where you just got on.

From Monteno to Cornisella

At the bend of the agro-forestry-pastoral road to Alpe Cova, in Monteno there is a large and worn road sign of the Comunità Montana n° 16 Strada di Servizio, and a no parking sign, on both sides, instead the cars park. After the hairpin bend, on the right, a wooden sign Pialeral Brioschi points in the direction of a mule track with a concrete floor, but the motorbikes no as a road sign says, which dates back to 1985. The mule track is now cemented, as unfortunately happens too often on mountain trails, to make it easier for motorcycles or cars. The locality table Pedalando nel Parco (Pedalling in the Park) says that we are in Monteno 850 meters, the Cornisella 3 signpost for bicycles is in the direction of the road that continues straight, the same direction indicated by a flashy yellow sign Agriturismo Brunino. Next to it, there is one of the panels of the Mountain Community Between Geology and Landscape placed on the mountain not many years ago, entitled Geological aspects of the territory.[^]

Take the fork to the right, now go up decisively with a series of hairpin bends in a wood, the road is wide. At the end of the short steep section, the view opens to the left on a meadow, which has a white hut at the top, on the right a worked trunk to sit and under a hut with the view of the sunniest part of the Grignone. Continue among black hornbeams, chestnuts, ash trees, encountering on the left a ruin and a meadow with a cottage at the top, the bottom is made of larger stones. Without realizing it, because there is no indication that delimits it, you are entering the Northern Grigna Regional Park. Continue more uphill, in a S-shaped you are helped by horizontal trunks, then the last steep section. You come across a recent wooden sign that indicates Agriturismo Oneda upwards to the left, then another structure Between Geology and Landscape, whose topic is The forest where, why and how. The trees thin out, to the right, cows graze in the summer. Exit and left at a large stone hut with a basin, in low Cornisella.[^]

Continue with a moderate slope passing under the high voltage wires admiring the beautiful view of the Cornisella meadows where the Spinarolo's electricity pylon stands out in the background. Here the path is a dirt road, bordered on the left by a row of fruit trees, where I saw donkeys eating grass and sheltering from the sun. Traveled the last half curve on a slope, protected by a bollard pylon to prevent cars from getting off, we come to the Church of the Alpini Maria Regina Pacis at Cornisella and along Strada Pasturo - Alpe Cova. I drink at the fountain and whoever wants to can rest for a moment on the concrete seats of the church, as I see hikers doing. Sentiero Pasturo - Pialeral follows the road that from Pasturo climbs to Alpe Cova for a few hundred meters, up to Acquafredda and Ponte dell'Acqua Fredda, before going up a mule track, part of the path I describe in from Cornisella to Alpe Cova.
At the intersection of the church, or the 'Alpini', the signage of the trails is heterogeneous and full of directions: path to Balisio (Sentiero Colle di Balisio - Cornisella), Pedaling in the Park of 3 for Brunino, which I describe in Sentiero Cornisella - Brunino, both pass through Spinarolo. For the Valle dei Grassi Lunghi along the Valle dell'Acqua Fredda, the path is marked Pedaling in the Park 2 but in the opposite direction, a link towards Traversata Bassa.

Conclusion

Going up to Grigna from Pasturo means taking Sentiero Pasturo - Pialeral, the first stretch from Pasturo to Cornisella is almost always in the shade and also has the function of connecting to other directions.From Cornisella, on the flat, you can reach Brunino or walk the Valle dell'Acqua Fredda for the Traversata Bassa, which continues up to Piani dei Resinelli, and downhill the Church of the Sacred Heart, which is located on the road to Balisio.

Despite its importance, the hiking trail is poorly managed or even abandoned by the institutions. In fact, the signs for the Pialeral are made up of improvised signs, the bottom without maintenance, the only works carried out are those that should not be done, that is to cement a mule track to favor the passage of one motorcycle. The presence of the Mountain Community of Valsassina is distinguished by bike paths and some didactic panels.
I no longer count the times I have walked the Sentiero Pasturo - Pialeral up to Cornisella.[^] In recent years, I start from Barzio and stay at a low altitude, stopping at the Alpe Cova lake or turning for Brunino.

References

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4. Mauro Vezzoli (28 October 2021). "Signs at the Monteno crossroads and panel Between geology and landscape. The pretty yellow table marked the CAI for the Pialeral and the Northern Grigna that was there years ago has become a lot of stuff. Pedaling in the Park marks a path for bikes along the road that climbs towards Cornisella, the same direction as Agriturismo Brunino complete with a mobile phone. For the Pialeral there is a wooden sign worn by the years, placed by some private individual, which indicates the direction that the hiker who goes to Grigna must follow, which certainly does not comply with the regulations of mountain signs. Next to it is one of the panels Between geology and landscape of the Mountain Community, bulky and not aesthetic.". In Autunno, Escursioni in montagna, Escursioni in Valsassina, Escursioni sul Grignone, Escursioni sulle Grigne, Itinerario Pedalando nel Parco 3 Bike tour della dorsale, Monteno, Segnaletica dei sentieri del Grignone, Sentiero Pasturo - Pialeral, Sentiero Pasturo - Pialeral (da Pasturo a Cornisella). [Google Photos photo]. Retrieved 28 October 2021.
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