Strada Altissima Leventina (part one)

What probably comes to your mind first if you hear “Leventina” is: A lot of traffic or even “Stau”. Be it the A2 highway, the bicycle path from Airolo to Biasca, “Strada Alta Leventina” (one of the most popular hiking routes in Switzerland), or even the busy railway across the Gotthard, but… there is a path where you will probably hardly ever find “Stau”, the “Strada Altissima Leventina”: It more or less follows the ridge between the Leventina and Blenio valleys and is nicely described in “Einsame Touren suedlich des Gotthards”.

Part one (which I did in a one day hike):
Biasca – Pasquerio – (Conzanengo) – Mürisc – Capanna Pian d’Alpe –Forcarella – Matro – Cogn – Pianca Bella – Croce di Sasso – Passo di Laghetti – Pizzo Erra – Alpe dei Piai – Suaisa – Anzonico


Remarks:

If you don’t like antenna construction or avalanche barriers you should skip this part of the “Strada Altissima Leventinssia”, on top of Matro there is an ugly tv(?) antenna contstruction and on Pizzo Erra there is at least 4 different generation of avalanche barriers.

The direct path between P. 796 and Mürisc is hard to find (especially if you have a map dated back to 1977 like me!). In fact I first did the detour to Conzanengo and then somehow crossed over to the direct path again. However I’m not sure I actually found the path described in “Einsame Touren suedlich des Gotthards”, because the way I went up there was at least a T4+

Otherwise this part of Strada Altissima Leventinssia is an easy T3. Even though it often isn’t marked, clear path traces are almost always visible.


Strada Altissima Leventina is to be continued…