Monte Faito, Walnut Cliff, Conca Cliff and Monte Chianiello

Premise

This route was traveled on January 15, 2022, and all subsequent observations and considerations can fully apply only to that day.

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From Magliano Vetere, you easily ascend following the signs for the Rupestrian Chapel of Santa Lucia, which we found open.

A drone would be needed to have an overall view of the chapel, and to see it from the opposite side to the arrival, you must take a narrow path that passes underneath and starts a couple of hairpin turns before reaching the entrance door.

Then shortly you reach the junction with the trail descending towards the Calore Gorge and turn northwest with the Walnut Cliff clearly visible ahead.

After crossing a road, continue along the easy "Tourist Route The Way of the Rupestrian Sanctuaries" and find a short detour marked as "WALNUT CLIFF": it ends under a photogenic large wall truly shaped like a walnut shell.

Then continue until you intersect the trail climbing from Capizzo, and shortly after you arrive at the Rupestrian Chapel of San Mauro which we found closed.

From this chapel, in a few meters you ascend above the long ridge-crest and before heading toward Monte Chianiello, by turning right we headed toward Monte Faito and the Walnut Cliff.

There is no trail for this round trip: only a few, very short and discontinuous walkways, but it is all intuitive with several possible lines between the crest edge and the forested areas just below.

Returning to the ridge saddle above the Rupestrian Chapel of San Mauro, we followed more or less the CAI 410 route up to the summit of Monte Chianiello passing through the Conca Cliff and the pass at Loc. Varco.

Here arrives the trail ascending from Monteforte Cilento and there is a signpost for the Rock Goddesses Trail.

From here, continue slightly below the ridge with few markings, which become many and close together in the last part of the ascent to the summit of Monte Chianiello: we did the first part by eye and the second following the signs well.

The subsequent descent from Monte Chianiello following the CAI 410 begins inside the forest on the northeast side, but we were at times in the forest and at times on the crest to safely adapt to the snow present.

Past the snow level, we definitively returned to the ridge edge where CAI 410 reenters and we took the direction of the elevation of Monte Varco Cervone.

Here one could go beyond Monte Varco Cervone towards the clearly visible Monte Vesole and make a longer return from the north start-end of the "Cavallazzo-Vallecioffi Trail".

Instead, following a line mapped on OpenStreetMap, we exited the beautiful ridge earlier and descended more directly toward the SP 414, crossed it, and entered lower down the very wide and fenced small road track of the "Cavallazzo-Vallecioffi Trail".

Thus, we arrived at the SP 13 about 1 km from the entrance to Monteforte Cilento where a second car can be parked for those who do not want to do the entire loop on foot.