Gimillian (Cogne) to Laghi di Lussert
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 12.36 mi
- Elevation gain
- 3,694 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Difficult
- Elevation loss
- 3,694 ft
- Max elevation
- 9,210 ft
- TrailRank
- 49
- Min elevation
- 5,813 ft
- Trail type
- Loop
- Time
- 8 hours 17 minutes
- Coordinates
- 1812
- Uploaded
- July 6, 2014
- Recorded
- June 2014
near Gimillian, Valle d’Aosta (Italia)
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Itinerary description
Track going from the parking in Gimillian (Cogne) to Laghi di Lussert along trail 8.
It took us roughly 8 hours including breaks and about 2,5 liters of water per person. The last part of the trail is for more experienced mountain hikers and walking poles (stokken) are no luxury. Since there is plenty of waterways you might consider bringing HADEX or a water purification system instead of bringing it all in bottles.
The first part of the trail is beautifull and will lead you through fields of wild flowers with lots of butterflies. You will also cross an old village and see a large waterfall along the way. TIP: There is a lot of wild spinage in the field at the waterfall (see picture); harvest the non-flowering shoots before end of June. Shortly before reaching the lakes there are some shelterhuts of which at least one was ok (june 2014) so you could consider sleeping in the shelter. The last part from the shelter up is very hard and goes through boring landscape. On the GPS screen the lakes will seem really close and yet so hard to reach because you will still need to ascend a few 100 m up. When we hiked the trail at the end of June the first lake was thawed (see pic) and the second lake was still covered with melting ice (see pic). We did not continue further because we were tired and because we expected the third lake to still be snow.
It took us roughly 8 hours including breaks and about 2,5 liters of water per person. The last part of the trail is for more experienced mountain hikers and walking poles (stokken) are no luxury. Since there is plenty of waterways you might consider bringing HADEX or a water purification system instead of bringing it all in bottles.
The first part of the trail is beautifull and will lead you through fields of wild flowers with lots of butterflies. You will also cross an old village and see a large waterfall along the way. TIP: There is a lot of wild spinage in the field at the waterfall (see picture); harvest the non-flowering shoots before end of June. Shortly before reaching the lakes there are some shelterhuts of which at least one was ok (june 2014) so you could consider sleeping in the shelter. The last part from the shelter up is very hard and goes through boring landscape. On the GPS screen the lakes will seem really close and yet so hard to reach because you will still need to ascend a few 100 m up. When we hiked the trail at the end of June the first lake was thawed (see pic) and the second lake was still covered with melting ice (see pic). We did not continue further because we were tired and because we expected the third lake to still be snow.
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