Gruppo: Valmalenco

La Ferrata Vigneron in Caspoggio (Valmalenco, Sondrio) è un via «alla Francese», athletic, vertical and exposed but without particular difficulties; techniques: it goes up long plates abundantly equipped with brackets and rope very tense, and gives a ponte tibetano and spectacular views of the valley.

You leave at the resort "Castello" in Caspoggio (SO): you park near the roundabout on the provincial road of Valmalenco (or at the parking lot of the first bend for Caspoggio). Open road signs on Google Maps. You climb the town for about 150 m to the hairpin bend; over a large boulder a first sign indicates the path to the crag « The Castle » and a second l' attack of the ferrata, on the southern edge of the cliff ( approximately 10' from'auto).

It begins with a wall with almost vertical leaps that oblique to the left, then a wall leads to the large end of the first section. An easy crossing north leads to the second section, più long: vertical balzes and leans up to an almost vertical ramp, a short traverse and an air passage between edge and dihedron overlooking Primolo. After a resting edge you reach the più tract; vertical, the muro of Old England, overhanging for a few meters all' start (athletic and exposed pass) and then vertical. The oblique street on the left until the ponte tibetano (about 12 meters), which ends with a short vertical wall very airy and a panoramic edge on the Valmalenco Church; who wants to avoid the può bridge; bypass it on the right on the nod. It follows another long wall, at some point vertical and exposed, then the ferrata is lowered and by line of life on a well-equipped path you will arrive at the end (1h 45' from' attack, about 2h totali), overlooking the Pizzo Scalino and Caspoggio.

Vertical and exposed with athletic difficulties but well equipped; the low altitude makes it possible almost all year round except the coldest winter months. Level difference in ferrata 210 m, total 260 m, maximum altitude 1215 m, development 3 km.

Dal boschetto sommitale, a sinistra (nord) un comodo sentiero porta in 10' alla frazione di Santa Elisabetta; prima delle prime villette si vira a sinistra (ovest) nel bosco verso Caspoggio, si raggiunge il centro sportivo Zenith e, per via Vanoni e via Burri, si segue verso la frazione Albertazzi fino alla strada dei parcheggi (45' dal termine, circa 3h totali).

In Valmalenco you can match the Ferrata al Torrione Porro above Clarification.