Walk
Walk to Vodala & lunch above the valley
3–4 hours · Moderate · 8.4 km
A steady climb through larch woods to a rifugio terrace where lunch takes as long as you want it to.
Relax · Spiazzi di Gromo
The hour before dinner
1 hourEasyAll agesDog friendly
Overview
Leave the apartment with a bottle and two glasses. The track climbs past the last houses, levels out at a meadow, and there is a bench that somebody built facing exactly the right way.
Stay until the light leaves the far ridge. Dinner in Gromo is ten minutes down the hill and nobody is in a hurry.
Why we love it
Because it costs nothing, asks nothing of you, and is the thing guests write to us about months later.
Basecamp tip
Check the sunset time in the kitchen and leave forty minutes before it. Take a jumper — the temperature drops the moment the sun goes.
Good to know
- The track is unlit, so bring a phone torch for the way back.
- Sheep and goats graze the meadow in high summer.
What to bring
- A layer
- Something to drink
- A torch for the return
If the weather changes
Cloud in the valley? The same view happens from the balcony.
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