Highlights and tour details
From Alpe Devero, take the little road that goes to the left at the locality of Ai Ponti near the little church; at the first bridge it is better to pass on the opposite side of the stream and follow the dirt road that leads to the houses of Piedimonte, where there are several signs. After crossing the small cluster of houses, take the marked path that goes up into the woods to the right of the stream (orographic left) and reaches the huts of the lower Alpe Buscagna (1941 m). Then continue on the plateau along the wide path and reach the hut of Alpe Buscagna, (1967 m). Leave the path on the right that leads to the Combi-Lanza Bivouac and Passo di Cornera and continue on the flat and then slightly uphill. Cross a scree following cairns and signs (not a very visible path), then continue on a more visible track with a more decisive ascent between rhododendrons and sparse larch trees up to a second grassy plateau at about 2200 metres in altitude. Cross the whole plateau towards the south and then start climbing again on grassy and then detrital ground up to the pass of the Scatta d'Orogna (2461 m). From the Scatta d'Orogna, the path first makes a short traverse on steep ground, then it descends more easily to a nice ledge with a small lake (2352 m) and then descends again towards Valle Bondolero. It then crosses a small rocky spur at the base (a slightly exposed passage, equipped with a chain) to go up under the looming walls of Pizzo Moro until it reaches Passo di Valtendra (2431 m). Descend eastwards from the pass, first skirting a small nival lake and then descending a steep grassy and detrital slope along an excellently marked path. You will then reach Pian Sass Mor and skirt it to the left until you reach a beautiful fountain (about 2070 m) where there is a marked fork: go down to the right and reach Pian du Scricc at a large renovated hut. The path goes past the hut and continues on the opposite side of the plateau (orographic right), then enters a beautiful beech wood. Proceed along the Rio Frua on your left until reaching the large plateau of Alpe Veglia and the houses of Cornù; before arriving there, there is a diversion on the left that leads directly to Rifugio Città di Arona (1760 m).
Tappe
- Grande Traversata delle Alpi - GTA: Tratto Nord Piemonte (476,00 km)
- GTA: Stage 1 Cannobio - Falmenta (13,20 km)
- GTA: Stage 2 Falmenta - Malesco (16,90 km)
- GTA Variant of Alta Valle dell'Isorno: Stage 3B Alpe Cortevecchio - Alpe Lago (6,60 km)
- GTA: Stage 3 Malesco - Fondomonfracchio (16,40 km)
- GTA Variant of Alta Valle dell'Isorno: Stage 3c Alpe Lago - Campo Valle Maggia (15,20 km)
- GTA Variant of Alta Valle dell'Isorno: Stage 3A Malesco - Alpe Cortevecchio (0,00 km)
- GTA: Stage 4 Fondomonfracchio - Capanna Alpe Arena (13,50 km)
- GTA: Tappa 5 Capanna Alpe Arena - Campo Valle Maggia (12,60 km)
- GTA: Stage 6 Campo Valle Maggia - Bosco Gurin (11,60 km)
- GTA: Stage 7 Bosco Gurin - Formazza Loc. Ponte (13,00 km)
- GTA: Stage 8A Canza - Lago Vannino (6,50 km)
- GTA: Stage 8B Riale - Alpe Cruina (12,90 km)
- GTA: Stage 8 Ponte - Riale (6,30 km)
- GTA: Stage 8C Riale - Nufenenpass (11,50 km)
- GTA: Stage 9 Riale - Alpe Vannino (7,80 km)
- GTA: Stage 10 Alpe Vannino - Alpe Devero (14,50 km)
- GTA: Stage 11 Alpe Devero - Alpe Veglia (13,40 km)
- GTA: Stage 12 Alpe Veglia - Alpe Solcio (12,60 km)
- GTA: Stage 12A Alpe Veglia - Varzo (19,00 km)
- GTA: Stage 13 Alpe Solcio - Varzo (5,40 km)
- GTA: Stage 14 Varzo - Alpe Arza (0,00 km)
- GTA: Stage 15 Alpe Arza - Alpe Laghetto (0,00 km)
- GTA: Upper Anzasca and Antrona Valleys Stage 15A Rifugio Alpe Laghetto - Rifugio Andolla (via Passo Pontimia) (6,80 km)
- GTA Variant of Alte Valli Anzasca and Antrona: Stage 16A Rifugio Alpe Laghetto - Rifugio Andolla (12,30 km)
- GTA Variant of Alti Valli Anzasca and Antrona: Stage 16B Rifugio Andolla - Cingino Bivouac (11,20 km)
- GTA Variant of the High Valleys of Anzasca and Antrona: Stage 16D Oberto Refuge - Macugnaga (6,90 km)
- GTA Variant of Alti Valli Anzasca and Antrona: Stage 16C Cingino bivouac - Rifugio Oberto (11,20 km)
- GTA: Stage 16 Alpe Laghetto - Cheggio (11,50 km)
- GTA Variant of the Upper Anzasca and Antrona Valleys: Stage 16E Macugnaga - Rifugio Buon Pastore (20,90 km)
- GTA Variante delle Alti Valli Anzasca e Antrona: tappa 16F Rifugio Buon Pastore - Sant'Antonio di Val Vogna (3,90 km)
- GTA: Stage 17 Antrona, hamlet of Cheggio - Della Colma Refuge (13,70 km)
- GTA: Stage 18 Rifugio della Colma - Molini di Calasca (7,30 km)
- GTA Stage 19 Molini di Calasca - Alpe Pian Lago (10,80 km)
- GTA Stage 20: Alpe Pian Lago - Campello Monti (5,90 km)
- GTA Stage 21: Campello Monti - Rimella (8,60 km)
- GTA Tappa 22: Rimella - Alpe Baranca (10,80 km)
- GTA Stage 23 Alpe Baranca - Carcoforo (8,70 km)
- GTA Tappa 24 Carcoforo - Rima (8,20 km)
- GTA: Stage 25 Rima - Sant'Antonio di Val Vogna (15,80 km)
- GTA: Tappa 26 Sant'Antonio di Val Vogna - Rifugio Rivetti (15,10 km)
Other information
Itinerary code: GPN
Provinces crossed: Distretto dei Laghi