Via GeoAlpina: Personico-Cavergno

The Via GeoAlpina project is being implemented alongside the Via Alpina, an itinerary crossing all the countries in the Alpine chain, from Trieste to Monaco. The route in the "Ticino Alps" section of the Via GeoAlpina goes from Biasca (Valle Leventina) to Cavergno (Vallemaggia), via Sonogno (Valle Verzasca). An exciting three-day tour through the Lepontine Alps offering the chance to discover the Ticino and its various rocks. The tour starts in Personico (reached by a bus from Biasca), heads up to Passo Gagnone and Capanna Efra, and then down to Frasco in the Verzasca Valley. There is a PostBus from Frasco to Sonogno. The Earth's mantle is visible at Passo Gagnone and consists of soapstone (steatite), a talc-schist from which stone pots were once made. The second day of the tour takes in the picturesque Val Redorta to the mountain pass of the same name. It then drops down to Prato-Sornico, going via either Capanna Tomeo or the wild Valle di Pertüs. The third day starts with an ascent to Monti di Rima and Bocchetta di Fiorasca, a landscape full of Ruscada gneiss and limestone formations. The route then descends to Capanna Fiorasca, and then on to Fontana in Val Bavona and the PostBus to Cavergno.