{:en}PRESS RELEASE (6/20/2017)
Wednesday, June 20 and Thursday, June 21 “Loano not only sea”, excursion program curated by the Loano section of the C.A.I.. under the auspices of the’Department of Tourism, Culture and Sports of the Municipality of Loano will offer the opportunity to participate in the two-day excursion to the Dante Livio Bianco Refuge (m 1910).
“As has been the tradition for a number of years," explains Beppe Peretti, CAI hiking companion-at the beginning of the summer, a two-day hike is proposed with an overnight stay at a refuge. This year it is the turn of the Dante Livio Bianco Refuge, a CAI of Cuneo facility dedicated to a valiant partisan commander and great mountaineer, which is located in the Meris valley (municipality of Valdieri) in the heart of the Maritime Alps park.
The refuge stands on the edge of Sottano della Sella Lake, a spectacular and scenic natural basin, among the largest in the Maritime Bees, at the foot of Mt. Matto.
Departure is scheduled for Wednesday, June 21, from Valerga Square at 7:30 a.m. by own car.
The walking route will start from the hamlet of Sant'Anna di Valdieri along a beautiful mule track that, keeping always on the left side of the stream, with a constant and not too steep climb will go back up the Meris valley and take us to the lake and the Refuge above.
Along the route we will cross two small hamlets, Tetti Biaisa and Tetti Paladin, cross the wide basin of Gias del Prato and then the plateau where the former royal houses of Chiot stand: we will walk in the territories that constituted the former royal hunting reserve (now Maritime Park). Along the entire route and in the area of the refuge it will be possible, with a little luck, to spot chamois, ibex and marmots. In the evening we will have dinner, overnight stay and breakfast in the Refuge.
And then the next morning the optional hike to Lake Soprano di Sella will take place: from the hut we will walk along Lake Sottano and with an old and still valid mule track we will climb with wide hairpin bends first to Lake Mediano and then to the large Lake Soprano di Sella, with an elevation gain of about 450 m.
The return will be on the same route as the ascent.
After a picnic lunch in the refuge, in the early afternoon we will begin the descent that will take us back to our cars in about 3 hours at Sant'Anna di Valdieri.”
CAI hikes are. free. For enrollment and information contact by 12 noon on the day before the activity is to be held on 019.67.23.66 or 349.78.54.220.{:}
