Ceresc, from Bondo

Access

From Milan to Chiavenna along the state road ; at the town's main roundabout turn right into Viale Maloggia and continue for a few kilometres to the state border. Entering Swiss territory, leave the cantonal road at the Bondo crossroads; after driving through some narrow streets in the village, you will find yourself in the car park of the Val Bondasca toll road.

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Introduction

This is a pleasant fallback excursion, which can be undertaken in all weather conditions, without the slightest danger of avalanches, even with very heavy loads. We follow a forest track that joins the valley floor to some high-altitude mountain pastures, currently adapted as holiday lodges. The spruce and white fir forest environment is splendid.

Description

0h00' From the Val Bondasca car park, climb up to cross the toll barrier (always lowered in winter, the road is not ploughed by snow) and begin to follow the forest track which, with a regular gradient, climbs up the mountainside in long traverses; at the first fork - well signposted - turn right and continue into the woods: long stretches among the fir trees alternate with timber loading areas and a few clearings with a few huts. Always ignoring secondary, unmarked tracks, after a long flat stretch, you reach a very wide hollow alpine pasture: this is Ceresc (1284m), a handful of picturesque huts nestling in a dark fir forest and dominated by the granite spire of Denc dal Luf 2h00'.   
Returning on the outward route, with very little chance of finding shortcuts 1h30'.