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· Province of Sondrio - Valtellina
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Val Codera, "Tracciolino"
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Path to Codera / At the group of houses, Codera first appears, still an hour away, with a short descent to a longer avalanche gallery. / Photo: On the way to Codera. © Eugen E. HüslerPhoto: Eugen E. Hüsler, Rother Bergverlag
A little train emerges hissing from the darkness, rattles over a bridge, disappears briefly into the next tunnel, then heads boldly along a track carved from the rock into a gloomy valley corner. A boy's dream? Only the noble Apache is missing, but on the "Tracciolino" you mostly encounter a few hikers, and the railway, once built in connection with the hydroelectric power plant in Valle dei Ratti, has long since stopped running. What remains is a well over ten-kilometer hiking trail from Codera to the dam behind Càsten. Even from the valley path, the horizontally running line on the opposite slope is unmistakable: the "Tracciolino" – a trail experience of a very special kind!
The large loop starts at the parking lot above Novate Mezzola. In many short switchbacks, the mule track climbs up to the houses of Avedee. Behind them, a short descent, then through a longer gallery and ascending into Codera, 825 m. In the village (signpost "Tracciolino") slightly downhill to the lower houses, then down through the forest to a beautiful masonry bridge where you cross the valley stream. Around a rocky corner and over a second bridge, then uphill to a fork. Here follow the sign "San Giorgio"; just above the alpine huts of Cii, 851 m, the path joins the "Tracciolino". It leads around a rocky corner into the Val Grande, which narrows into a wild gorge, crossed by a solid bridge. Below Cola, 1018 m, which has a direct access from San Giorgio (shortcut), it goes into the third ravine, the Val Revelaso. At its exit, after a longer traverse through steep rocks, you reach a fork: right down to San Giorgio, straight ahead further into Valle dei Ratti. And at least for a little
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