Mountains too, we know, are not are not built for eternity half of the of the entire volume of the Alps volume of the Alps has already migrated into the flat country mutated into gravel plains or moraine walls. The It was the glaciers in particular that moved at a crawling pace, but relentlessly, scraped the sides of mountains, carried debris out on their backs. and deposited it somewhere in the foreland. After the retreat to the higher altitudes, the lack of counter-pressure from the ice the ice - in some places in the Alps there were huge landslides. This was also the case in the lower reaches of the Sarca. Here, on Monte Brento (1545 m), about one m), about one billion cubic metres of rock (equivalent to a cube with an edge length of a cube with an edge length of one kilometre!). The rock thundering down to the valley dammed up the Lago di Cavèdine (237 m) and formed the huge block terrain of the Marocche (Monte Gaggio, 348 m). In the meantime, the vegetation has overgrown large parts of the landslide area. overgrown, but the core area still has all the characteristics of a features of a distinct dry area: hardly any humus, only sparse vegetation. sparse vegetation. Here and there, shrubs and trees show natural bonsai bonsai forms, a consequence of the difficult living conditions.
The valley walk begins at the village square of Pietramurata (253 m), leads on asphalt first to the south, then half-right into the woods. After about 20 minutes, the road crosses Canale Rimone, which connects Lago di Cavèdine with the Sarca. The trail then climbs gently to a junction at a large boulder (signpost), where you turn left. The path climbs a little more, then descends to Lago di Cavèdine. Go round the end of the lake with the half-ruin of a power station and a little further on join the road coming from Dro. Twenty metres before the asphalt ribbon, the »Sentiero delle Marocche« branches off to the right at a sharp angle (no sign!). The clear track (dots of colour now and then) rises briefly, then winds through the landslide terrain. Powerful rock strands on the left and right, scree and sparse vegetation dominate the picture. To the west, the climbing walls rise high into the sky; down the valley, Arco appears with its castle rock. Then the path enters the forest again,
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