Caratteristica: Panorama sul Lago Colombo

The Ferrata al Pizzo del Becco is a short stretch equipped with no technical difficulties of importance, but inserted in a long and challenging itinerary: before and after the equipment there are rocks exposed to face in free, where it serves foot. The environment, in the heart of the Bergamo Orobies, is wild and isolated.

The starting point is the Baite di Mezzeno, above Roncobello in Val Brembana: from Roncobello you continue on the road first paved and then dirt until you end at the huts, where you park. Starting point on Google Maps. Take the path 215 uphill, which enters almost immediately into the woods; exit on the pastures of height you reach a crossroads where you keep the right towards the Rifugio Laghi Gemelli. The path is steeped to the Mezzeno Pass (2140 m), beyond which a pier, and in a half hour leads to the refuge (2h from the parking lot). Cross the dam of the lake passing on the other side, continue on dirt road to Lake Colombo and cross it on a second dam; just beyond a red sign indicates to keep the left. Approaching the walls of the Pizzo del Becco you follow a clear track first, then the white-red signs on path and rocks, up to the chain that gives start to the ferrata (1h 15' from the shelter, 3h 15' total).

The equipped stretch covers less than 100 m of altitude difference and has in fact only two vertical points. You start in a well-dressed dihedron, you pass a prominence and turn left on some rocks up to a small terrace where it is worth turning for the nice eye shot on Lake Colombo. Then a second vertical wall rises, with excellent hooks for hands and feet, up to a final exit slot; the chain folds right and on a more coricated wall, with the cable as a simple balance, you reach the end of the equipment (20' from the attack, about 3h 40' total). Continue on uphill track, on easy but exposed rocks, up to the Forcella del Valico (from which to the right would descend the normal way); for the final ridge there are some rocks and a last stretch equipped up to the summit cross (20' from the end of the ferrata, 4h total).

The equipped part is easy and the chain, not very tense, serves seldom; the commitment lies in the length of the itinerary and in the stretches of exposed rocks, uphill and downhill, to be covered independently.

High mountain road, to be covered in summer with dry rock; the isolated environment requires good autonomy.

From the cross you go back to the Forcella del Valico, where you can choose if you redefine the ferrata crossed uphill (40' from the summit, be careful not to move stones on who is below) or follow straight signs towards Passo di Sardegnana; in both cases you arrive at Lake Colombo (1h 15' from the summit). From here you go back to the approach path to the parking lot (1h 30' from Lake Colombo, about 6h 15' total).

It is part of a long itinerary that leaves little energy for another day, but the Orobie Park and Bergamo offer many equipped to join in several days: the Ferrata Guerino Rossi al Pizzo Strinato, la Ferrata at Monte Ocone, la Ferrata alla Madonnina del Coren, la Ferrata Maurizio and, in Val Brembana, the Ferrata di Santa Croce alla Corna Maria.