In the gorge excavated by the Gaina stream, in the province of Brescia, this equipped path gives an easy and suggestive itinerary, without technical difficulties and with a landscape suitable also for families and children. It is the type of route that you play all about the environment: water, laminated rocks and waterfalls, with the equipment used only to accompany the progression along the stream.

It starts from the village of Gaina, fraction of Monticelli Brusati (BS). After passing the bus station of Monticelli Brusati, after a few minutes you can see on the left a white sign that indicates Gaina: take the road uphill, which soon narrows, until the village, where the road biforca. You hold the right and you will immediately find the parking place where you leave the car (open up Google Maps). From the parking lot, in front, a brown sign indicates “Cascate”: continue on the road, initially asphalted, up to a junction (10′ from the parking lot) where you choose between the easy route and that for experts. The most beautiful solution is to climb from the path for experts and return from the easy one.

You descend on the bed of the creek, now proceeding on the right now on the left horographic depending on where the bottom is dry, helping with the big rocks to cross it. You will encounter a crossroads that would bring you back to the easy path: you ignore it and head towards a waterfall, where the equipped section begins. It sticks up a metal staircase of about ten meters, then walks next to the stream between laminated rocks and wood. After a first curve the throat tightens and finally begins the equipped part: it starts on the left with some chains on sloping rocks, then it passes on the right horographic with a short traverse equipped with three brackets for the feet, which avoids entering the water. Continue on a slight diagonal and cross the stream, then go up a rocky slope diagonally next to the water (attention to the wet rock). A new crossing wets the feet, except in the summer months; on the other side you find the chain at a waterfall, in correspondence of the only vertical stretch equipped, a 6-8 meters wall to be overcome also with the help of the brackets. You cross the stream and enter the final stretch: in short, on the path, you reach the last beautiful waterfall, next to which a second staircase closes the route (1h15 from the attack, 1h30 total).

Also in the variant for experts the path does not have significant technical difficulties: it is suitable for neophytes and keeps everywhere a contained exposure. The only real attention goes to the moisture brought from the stream, which can make more slippery some passages.

The altitude is low (538 m), therefore the route is accessible in most of the year; in the warm months the stream can however show up with little water or dry, reducing the spectacularness of the falls.

From the end of the staircase you go up the track to a crossroads that indicates the easy return or that for experts. You can then go back to the equipped path or, more quickly, take the easy variant that runs higher than the stream. In both cases you reach the country and then parking (30′ from the end of the street, 2h overall).

Energies allowing, it is a route that lends itself to be combined with a more challenging route of the area, such as the Ferrata Corno del Bene o il Sentiero Attrezzato Trentapassi. Moving to Val Trompia you can reach Ferrata Caspai, la Ferrata Nasego e il Parco delle Fucine di Casto.