Macugnaga    Monte Rosa

510  km.

        To escape to the heat of these days we decide to visit the valley Anzasca; we depart therefore of good morning and to try to do more in hurry possible we take the Turin Milano and then we divert on the Gravellona Toce up to his term on the Most greater lake.  

        The journey is not the maximum one in how much the Turin Milan is an only yard and the traffic it is already notable while it is being more flowing the Gravellona at least up to the tollgate where instead it needs to arm himself of a great patience!  

        Gone out of the super road we finally find some refreshment in the dense woods of the green and calm valley Ossola, the traffic is scarce and her road winds between small fields of corn and small and colored countries as Ornavasso and Pieve Vergonte from where we turn and we take the valley Anzasca.  

        The entry in the valley is enough narrow and tortuous following her steep throats of the homonym stream, but after few kilometers the valley opens alternating wide lines of asphalt and taken care of asunder narrow and tortuous, in half to characteristic countries of mountain formed from beautiful log cabins in stone and wood in a perfect alpine style.  

        We cross the whole valley until to reach Macugnaga that thanks to the exploitation of the ski and the mountaineering  is reassured from a reality of depopulation and escape from the mountain toward the lowland and it is a splendid rich country of log cabins, hotels and launchings now and colored shops.  

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        Unfortunately we discover that the funivia toward the footstep of Mountain Moor is closed (he would have allowed us the sight of the whole complex of the Mountain Rosa) we are so forced to continue up to the fraction of Pecetto, the extreme limit of the valley and from here to take the chair lift what in two leaps it brings us up to the belvedere; this is situated really to the feet of the glacier of the group of the Rosa, you have the whole crown above of you and it is, with some caution, also practicable in her final language where the moraine is dirty of earth, rocks and deposits.  

        After having enjoyed of this inimitable panorama, some customary photos and then of yarn to the shelter where, sees the time, we were not able avoid a beautiful dish of polenta! A had lunch and rested a little we prepare there to return to valley unfortunately, we take back the chair lift and there let's throw again in the warm one!  

        Taken the motorbikes we cross to bashful the valley, emerges in the Ossola but instead of immediately looking for the highway we aim for Omegna and from here coast along the whole lake of Orta, with the warm absurdity that does is a torture to see this splendid water! We hold hard we insert there in the risaies in direction Vercelli and to the country of Arborio we take again the Turin Milano that it quickly brings us to house with a warm absurdity!