This is the best known\nof the bivouacs owned by the State Forestry Agency and located in sequence\nalong the 38 km of the Altomontana Path, which can be reached in an\nhour-and-a-half\u2019s walk from Piano Vetore. It is located at 1878 metres and is\nalways open so that it can be used by excursionists, day and night. There is a\nwater tank supply but no toilet facilities. It can only be reached by bicycle\nor on foot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The only exception is a short pass stretching through a narrow lava path resulting from the 1981 eruption, which spilled onto the north flank threatening the town of Randazzo.\n\nThe ring it outlines is not a closed one, due to the chasm of the Valle del Bove, not impossible though difficult to cross.\n\nThough curved in shape, the length and conformation of the Pista Altomontana make it a sort of backbone of the Etna trail network, as it is accessible from almost all the villages surrounding Etna through some paths featuring a roughly radial track. Subsequently, it is possible to proceed towards the summit areas from some of its junctions, following other paths through large radial lines.\n\nThe Pista Altomontana could be defined as the \"hub\" of the Etna trails, as it allows reaching the medium altitudes of the Volcano from one side and descend from another one.\n\nIt also allows crossing and enjoying almost all the landscapes that Mount Etna can offer, ranging from different types of tall trees forests and- in particular - pine woods with larch pine and beech woods, to harsh lava flows characterised by very diverse shapes and appearance. The Pista Altomontana roughly marks the border between the second and third of the three circular belts into which the ancient authors used to divide Etna, that is, the downstream wooded belt and the upstream volcanic desert belt.\n\nFinally, it allows admiring an hourly changing panorama overlooking the two underlying valleys of the Simeto and Alcantara rivers, the mountainous complexes of Nebrodi and Peloritani and the villages scattered across them. Along it, or at short distance, there are a dozen small buildings, generally owned by the former State Forestry Company, some of which are available as emergency shelter or a basic overnight stay for adequately equipped hikers.\n\nThe two ends of the route can be both reached by private motor vehicles and constitute Hiking Base Points.","post_title":"Pista Altomontana (Sentiero Italia)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"pista-altomontana-sentiero-italia","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2020-11-19 10:49:55","post_modified_gmt":"2020-11-19 09:49:55","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.unescoparcoetna.it\/sentieri\/pista-altomontana-sentiero-italia\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"sentiero","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":2747,"post_author":"2","post_date":"2019-11-12 15:21:28","post_date_gmt":"2019-11-12 14:21:28","post_content":"The end of the paved road unfolding uphill from Adrano, where the bar marking the border of the State Property is located, is a wide area located in a particularly pleasant plateau at an altitude of 1,525 m. This is half-crowned by lateral craters covered with thick pine forest. The recently renamed \u201cPiano Fiera\" plateau was crossed by ancient, undated, lava flows intermingled with tall pine trees that managed to take root among the rough rocks. The trail is 3,940 m long. It mostly unfolds under the pine forest and allows reaching the Pista Altomontana at the Galvarina Lodge (1,878 m) after less than an hour and a half walk, a hospitable bivouac always open for hikers by the State Forestry Company that built it.","post_title":"Piano Fiera \u2013 Rifugio Galvarina","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"piano-fiera-rifugio-galvarina","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2020-11-19 10:55:17","post_modified_gmt":"2020-11-19 09:55:17","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.unescoparcoetna.it\/sentieri\/piano-fiera-rifugio-galvarina\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"sentiero","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}]},"yoast_head":"\n