Congratulation Speach

Val Rezzalo

In Alta Valtellina , just beyond Sondalo on the way to Bormio, a road climbs through the hairpin bends to the village of Fumero (1464 m).
Leave the car before the tiny village (immediately after a tunnel), you can walk for a good stretch on the road, then take a cart that goes in Val Rezzalo.

This is a small, beautiful valley that winds among fir trees, grasslands and wetlands all around the creek Rezzalasco.
A romance for the senses and mind, a true paradise, a small chest of natural beauty ... and relaxation.

Orography (source: google maps - amended)

After the entrance of the dirt road to Fontanasca , apart from a long distance (13 Km) in 5 hours to Rifugio Berni (2591 m), crossing the Passo Alpe and arriving in the Valley of the Gavia. The path-
that on this occasion we have come not entirely for lack of time-advantage of a track drawn during the First World War for defensive purposes.

Our walk has as its goal the Alpine huts, where we have reserved the greedy pizzoccheri and where there is a gracious hospitality.

The look flies over the beautiful landscape where the grays of the rocks are a counterpoint to the green fields, and where the alternate yellow and purple flowers, white lapping against the white snow plain of the river, to the blue of the cloudless sky when the sun roars at full strength.
The air is fresh, due to the altitude (1866 m).

The seventeenth-century church of San Bernardo (1851 m) peeps out there in the middle of the wetland, where the silver ribbon and turbulent stream of fresh paint Rezzalasco sinuosity in the greening of the plain.



The day was magnificent, with a large sun makes us forget for a moment in the continuous weeks of cold and rain that marked the spring (June 24 ... and would even now!) .

The walk is easy (even If the first part follows various bends rather steep) for a good stretch in the woods of spruce and almost always happy with the roar of the stream that runs close to and accompanies our stony steps.
Groups roofed huts dotting the dark shale here and there the green meadows. Some date from 800.

The duration ... well, more than two hours, but the time taken for naturalists, botanists, who stop in every pie 'pushed to admire, take pictures, make observations and comment peppering the speeches of juicy anecdotes ...

Soon available photos on my flickr space .

Panorama by Fumero

tongues of ice creeping up on the edge Abetina

The church dedicated to St. Bernard of Clairvaux, founder of the Cistercian

The This map to the shelter La Baita (click to enlarge)

The beauty of the place not deceive ...
This beautiful green is all wetlands, where
able to walk without a swim off the boot program is really an enterprise!

Glimpses

north-east.