Snowshoeing Il Pizzetto
Difficulty
Medium
Period
Winter

The Anzasca Valley is a real environmental and cultural treasure trove: the east face of Monte Rosa, one of the breath-taking natural sights of the Ossola Valley, the Walser buildings, the small museums, the traditional cuisine and gold minesMacugnaga, located right at the foot of the vast face of Monte Rosa, boasts as an important mountaineering history as the stage of adventurous and sometimes tragic stories.
Valle Anzasca can be reached by taking the A26 Genova-Gravellona Toce motorway, following signs for the national border. Take the Piedimulera exit and continue on Valle Anzasca’s trunk road 549 until you reach Macugnaga.

Here are the route created with the invaluable collaboration of Paolo Barcellini, a CAI Valle Anzasca hiking guide.

Description

Leave your car around 200 m after the hamlet of Riscillone: keep in mind that there are only a limited number of parking spaces. Follow the dirt road that leads to Alpe Balmo, from which you can freely head towards the Alpe Provaccio (1130 m), where you will come across the arrival point of a disused chairlift. Continue, following the ski slopes up to the Alpe Loro; walk along the Pizzetto ridge until you encounter and pass first Alpe Rausa di Bannio then Rausa di San Carlo (1486 m) and Villa Samonini (1630 m). Cross the flat Campo Aostano to circumvent the northern slope of the Pizzetto, thus reaching the south-west ridge of the summit, which can be accessed from the foresummit via a short up and down section.
There is a splendid view from the summit that allows you to admire the east face of Monte Rosa in all its majesty.

Useful info

Starting point

Bannio Anzino, hamlet of Riscillone

Access

Trunk road 549 in Valle Anzasca (towards Macugnaga, take the turn for Bannio Anzino in Ponte Grande)

Difficulty

E

Ascent

892 m

Total duration

3 hrs

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