Lake Blu of Veràz

Scheda

Via: 

variant from Résy

Segnavia: 

13, 13B, GSW, 8B, 7, 8

Data del rilievo: 

27/08/2009

Foto di copertina: 

The Lake Blu

Tipologia Percorso: 

Circolare

Difficoltà: 

T

Periodo Consigliato: 

May to October

Tempo Complessivo: 

4h20'

Dislivello: 

245 m

Introduction

This walk takes place on the river left side of the Val d'Ayas. Could be called the "Way of Walser villages" because goes through picturesque typical residential groupings of the Walser culture and ends in one of the classics and very well known to people places in the Valley: the beautiful and picturesque Blue Lake, at the foot of the large moraine of what was once the Great Glacier of Veràz.
The excursion reels through a territory that was once the delight of hikers: vast forests, grasslands, small pastures, pristine valleys. Today the reality is very different. The writer remembers having traveled this route for the first time in 1967 and today would be difficult to recognize what he saw then. The horrible wounds that were inflicted in the name of the most sinister mountain touristic exploitation in favor of "winter sports" are there, obvious, and unfortunately now indelible. Even today, besides the forest roads, ski lifts, buildings of all types, poles and excavation of land to plot the slopes, a new "train" (officially a funicular) has been added, which, departing from Frachey, leads to Alpe Ciarcerioz that once was one stop of this excursion, and that in the beautiful book "Ayas", text combined with stunning photographs by Gianfranco Bini, was described for the hikers with this pattern: "Breakfast at Crest, aperitif in Resy, lunch at Saint Jacques "...
In this description I have deliberately chosen to limit the testimony of the havoc made through a couple of pictures only, leaving to others the painful task of making further comments about what was and today is not existing any longer...