Walkers! Do you fancy a one-day excursion in Lazio? Today we offer one of the most popular excursions in the area, we are in the Duchessa's Mountains regional reserve and we will see how to reach the famous Duchessa's lake.
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Difficulty: Hikers
Length: 11 km
Estimated time: about 4 hours of walking
Location: Cartore
Altitude gain: +940 m
Loss of altitude: -940 m
Minimum altitude: 956 m
Maximum altitude: 1800 m
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The route starts from the small village of Cartore, a town that thrives on tourism, surrounded by a vast plain often frequented by wild animals. If you intend to stay overnight on site, we strongly recommend that you book. Before leaving, a tour of the characteristic houses of Cartore is a must.
A sign indicates the start of path 2B which will lead us along the most demanding part of the entire route: the Fua valley.
The first part of the valley consists of a well-kept and marked path that allows us to progress upwards through hairpin bends that follow the morphology of the mountain. The second part of the climb instead becomes more gymnastic, the road bottom becomes rocky and we even contract a small passage with a chain. In any case, there are no exposed sections.
The steepest part of the route develops right on the first kilometers, so we recommend a bit of warm-up before the start and a few stops on the way up.
The second part of the route sees us leave the wood and arrive at the classic mountain above 1700. Wide spaces and sparse vegetation lead us to skirt a series of mountain pastures and bivouacs including the Gigi Panei bivouac equipped with an emergency room and fireplace.
The last stretch before arriving at the lake is a gentle climb in the valley between the Murolungo and the Zis peak.
Enjoy a stop at the Duchessa lake, one of the few lakes of glacial origin in the Apennines, in fact the lake has no tributaries but is regenerated only thanks to the rains or the melting of the snow.
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00:00 Parking in Cartore
00:20 Fua Valley
02:56 Gigi Panei Bivouac
04:22 Duchessa Lake
06:47 Return on path 2C
09:01 Final thoughts
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