Lagorai GROUP : Climbing, Hiking & Mountaineering : SummitPost

Overview

The impressive Lagorai range is a real and unspoiled paradise for all trekking

Lagorai is a wide ( 955,64 kmq ) and regular range in the Eastern part of Trentino.
Its boundaries are
- the Manghen Pass (SW)
- the Val di Fiemme (N side)
- the Passo Rolle (NE) see Pale di S.Martino group
- the Valsugana (S side)

Lagorai panoramic view

It is an amazing and interesting group full of small lakes and streams, wild and silent, that brings hiker in a dream land.
This land was a battlefield during the 1st World War and, obviously, is full of strongholds and trenches joined by good paths.

Geology

The area belongs to the Porphyric Atesina platform, starting from Merano and Val Gardena (North) and ending with Valle Vanoi and Valsugana (South), formed by quartziferous porphyry,
The range is made of effusive, intrusive and metamorphic rocks coming from consolidation of effusive lavas (270 millions of years ago).
The only Cima d'Asta massif is formed by one different rock (intrusive rock : granite)

It was merged upon the "Tetide sea" till 20-25 millions of years ago than (alpin orogenesis).
Glaciers and weather events moulded the actual Lagorai range.

Orographic info

Summits of this range are not so high, the highest one is the Cima Cece (2754m)
Old glacier circles host small lakes, the biggest one is the Lagorai lake

Getting There

by car

Some very good routes allow easy access to Lagorai :

along the Adige valley : Highway 22 (Brennero) and SS 12

from Valsugana along the SS 47

from Fiemme valley along the SS 48

Only one good route (SP 31) crosses the Lagorai coming from Passo del Manghen

by train

railway Verona-Brennero : Trento and Ora stations

Valsugana railway
than a good bus service

Lagorai Occidentale (western)

main summits

Monte Croce mt.2490

Monte Rujoch mt.2415

Monte Gronlait mt.2383

Monte Hoabonti mt.2299

Monte Fregasoga mt.2452

Pala delle Buse mt.2412

Monte Montalon mt.2501

Cima Sette Sellemt.2396

Lagorai Orientale (eastern)

main summits

Cima Cece mt.2754

Cimon di Val Moena mt.2488

Cima Litegosa mt.2540

Monte Colbricon mt.2602

Cima Lastè mt.2682

Monte Cauriol mt.2494

Alpe del Cermis mt.2000

Cima delle Stellune mt. 2605

Rava subgroup

main summits

Cimon Rava mt.2436

Cima Trento mt.2530

Monte Cengello mt.2439

Pale di Segura mt.2413

Monte Brunella

Cima delle Buse Todesche mt.2413

Cima Lasteati mt.2408

Monte Conseria mt.2249

Cima d'Asta

main summits

Cima d'Asta mt. 2847

Col verde mt.2566

Col del vento mt.2636

Cima dei diavoli mt.2808

Accomodations

Good accomodations can be found in Paneveggio, Passo Rolle, Calamento, Alpe Cermis in the valleys
Refuges and Bivuoacs

Rifugio Alpe Cermis m.2229 sentiero 353 tel. 0462 341616

Rifugio Passo di Lusia

Rifugio Cauriol m. 1587

Rifugio Lago di Erdemolo

Rifugio Laghi di Colbricon m. 1927

Rifugio Sette Selle m.2014

Rifugio Toniola m. 2151

Rifugio Tonini m.1902

Bivacco ANA Telve m. 2090

Hiking and Climbing

Paths
a lot of good marked paths, forestal and war routes

Translagorai
an "high" route partially belonging to the European Path E5 : from Costanza lake (CH) to Venezia (Venice) (ITA)

Cable cars
Cable cars in this area work also in summer :
Cermis da Cavalese, S.Martino di Castrozza, Panarotta -Vetriolo, Cima Tognola e Cima Tognazza.