Associazione Sentieri Alpini Calanca
Map with all coordinates: | Associazione Sentieri Alpini Calanca (ASAC) |
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| purpose | Operation of an alpine high trail including huts |
| Chair: | Active President: Patrice Riedo |
| Establishment date: | 4th November 1978 |
| Number of members: | over 300 (as of 2018) |
| Seat : | Rossa ( Canton of Graubünden ) |
| Website: | sentiero-calanca.ch |
The Associazione Sentieri Alpini Calanca (ASAC) is an Alpine club in the Italian-speaking Calanca Valley in the canton of Graubünden . He runs and maintains the 50 kilometer long “Sentiero Alpino Calanca”, an alpine long-distance hiking trail high above the Calanca valley, including its four huts at the stage locations. The association was founded in Selma in the Calanca valley in 1978 on the initiative of Wilfried Graf.
History and activities
Wilfried Graf from Binningen bought a holiday home for his family in Selma in 1973. During the holidays, he hiked through the wild and partly deserted Calanca Valley, noticing that many of the paths marked on the map were overgrown and difficult to find. With the help of his family and pimples and saws, he began to make these paths accessible again.
Young people of an international student exchange helped him in 1977 the stretch from the hamlet Bersach ( 1332 m above sea level. M. ) above Selma to Stabgel (stabiel, 1789 m above sea level. M. ), a deserted Alp ( "Monti") from farmers in Cauco , repaired deliver. At that time, Graf had the idea of creating a continuous hiking trail from the Alp d'Aion in a southerly direction to Santa Maria . 1978 succeeded in the labor camp, "Moleraweg" in a few weeks a large part of this stretch of the Alp Aion Vec to Mottone ( 2100 m above sea level. M. ) to realize what Graf encouraged to road building in the north to San Bernardino in attack to take .
The association “Associazione Strade Alte della Calanca” (ASAC) was founded in Selma in 1978 to finance this project. It was later renamed “Associazione Sentieri Alpini Calanca”. In the summer of 1983, thanks to the voluntary work of young people, apprentices and school classes during the summer holidays, the Höhenweg was completed. The old agricultural cultural trails were cleared, repaired and merged into a network of long-distance hiking trails. The construction of the path was financed by the members of ASAC through voluntary work, membership fees and donations.
From 1981 to 1985, the ASAC built four huts and bivouacs to provide accommodation and overnight accommodation for the individual stages of the Höhenweg.
The “Arbeitsgemeinschaft Val Calanca” (AVC), founded in 1979, began, parallel to the construction of the Sentiero Alpino Calanca, with the repair and maintenance of agricultural roads in the central Calanca valley.
today
The ASAC maintains the high-altitude trails, including huts, on the Sentiero Alpino Calanca in order to keep them in the valley threatened by ganding . The association thus makes an important contribution to the Calanca Valley, which has already been declared dead by business circles and politicians.
The maintenance of the alpine high-altitude trails is very costly, the safety of the trails must be constantly checked (renewed markings, etc.), weather damage (avalanches, reefs, etc.) repaired and the bushes curbed. This happens in annual labor camps with volunteers (“Volontari”). The huts with the water supply and the sanitary facilities etc. are constantly being expanded and improved.
Sentiero Alpino Calanca
The classic route of the Calanca High Trail leads from north to south, from San Bernardino ( 1608 m above sea level ) ⊙ to Santa Maria in Calanca ( 955 m above sea level ) ⊙ . The path leads along the steep flanks of the almost 3000 meter high mountain range between the Calanca and Misox valleys in southern Graubünden . For the most part you are above the tree line at over 2000 meters and mostly on the Calanca side. The entire high trail can be mastered in four to five stages. In various places there are sometimes steep ascent and descent options, mainly from and into the Calanca valley. Between the Calanca valley and the Misox there are the following crossings (from north to south): Pass di Passit ( 2082 m above sea level ), Bocchetta di Trescolmen ( 2161 m above sea level ), Pass de Buffalora ( 2261 m above sea level . ).
- 1st stage from San Bernardino Dorf to Rifugio Pian Grand ⊙ : Variants a) via Alp d'Ocola and Alp d'Arbeola in 3.5 hours b) via Pass di Passit , Pass de la Cruseta , Bocca di Rogna in 4.5 hours Hours
- 2nd stage from Rifugio Pian Grand to Rifugio Ganan ⊙ : Ganan can be reached in 6.5 hours via the high path.
- 3rd stage Rifugio Ganan to Buffalorahütte ⊙ : reachable in 2.5 hours via the Höhenweg.
- 4th stage Buffalora hut to Alp di Fora ⊙ : the Alp di Fora can be reached from the Buffalora hut in 5 to 6 hours.
- 5th stage Alp di Fora to Santa Maria : via Pian di Renten 2.5 hours.
The partially exposed high trail is marked as a mountain hiking trail "white-red-white", difficulty level T3 +. Difficult areas are secured with chains or wire ropes. It requires perseverance and surefootedness. It can be difficult and dangerous in rain, snow and fog. Summits or unmarked trails should only be climbed by experienced and local mountaineers.
Huts
The Buffalora Hut is the main base and, as a stage, is roughly in the middle of the high path. It was built in 1981, destroyed by an avalanche in 1985 and had to be rebuilt in 1987 at its current, safe location ( 2078 m above sea level , coordinate 731 600/134 720). It is the only manned accommodation. It is usually closed in the winter months from late October to mid-June.
The two self-catering bivouac huts Rifugio Pian Grand (built in 1983) with 18 places are equipped with gas cookers, dishes, blankets and mattresses and are unheated. There is tap water 100 meters west of the hut. You are at 2398 m above sea level. M. , coordinate 732 580/141 670. Cell phone reception is possible. Access from San Bernardino Dorf takes 3.5 hours (via Alp d'Ocola and Alp d'Arbeola) or 4.5 hours (via Passit, Pass de la Cruseta, Bocca di Ronga). The Ganan Bivouac Hut can be reached in 6.5 hours via the Höhenweg, and the Buffalora Hut in around 9 hours.
The self-catering bivouac hut “Rifugio Ganan” (built in 1983) has seven places and is equipped with a gas cooker, dishes, blankets and mattresses and is unheated. There is tap water in front of the entrance. It is located 2375 m above sea level. M. , coordinate 732 690/138 140. Cell phone reception only with Swisscom. The Buffalora Hut can be reached in 2.5 hours via the Höhenweg.
The self-catering hut "Alp di Fora" (since 1999 with ASAC, former accommodation for construction workers of the avalanche barriers) has 17 places, a wood stove, a gas stove, a Swedish stove for heating and is equipped with dishes, water in the hut, beds with woolen blankets. It is located above Braggio at 1844 m above sea level. M. , coordinate 731 020/128 700. Cell phone reception is possible. Alp di Fora can be reached in 5 to 6 hours from the Buffalora hut. The ascent from Santa Maria via Pian di Renten takes 3 hours, from Braggio 1.5 hours (cable car from Arvigo ).
literature
- Oliver Gemperle, Markus Rottmann: Calanca Abandoned places in an alpine valley. Luoghi abbandonati in una valle alpina. With excerpts from legends from the Calanca valley. Benteli Verlag, Bern 2010, ISBN 978-3-7165-1639-3 (German and Italian)
- Silvia Fantacci, Ueli Hintermeister: Val Calanca. 25 hikes in a pristine southern alpine valley . Rotpunkt Verlag, Zurich, ISBN 3-85869-238-7
- Marco Volken, Remo Kundert: Alpine hiking in southern Grisons - Engadin Müstair Puschlav. Alpine hikes in southern Grisons and the neighboring areas of Italy . ISBN 978-3-85902-259-1
- Massimo Gabuzzi: Capanne e rifugi del Ticino e della Mesolcina . ISBN 88-7967-107-3 (Italian)
- Katharina Bürki: Val Calanca 2014/2015 . A series of five little books with numerous photographs accompanied by texts about the valley and its villages. Self-published, Buseno. (Italian)
Web links
- Official website (German and Italian)
- Hikr.org: Sentiero Alpino Calanca
- Outdooractive: Sentiero Alpino Calanca in three stages
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cultural landscape change in the Calanca valley
- ^ ASAC: history
- ^ Working group Val Calanca: Repair and maintenance of agricultural roads in the central Calanca valley
- ↑ Recently (2005) the Calanca valley hit the headlines as part of the so-called emptying strategy of the new regional policy. A study by Basel architects believed that giving up "unprofitable" mountain areas would be financially advantageous.
- ↑ Berner Zeitung of April 30, 2015: The path of the "crazy Tedeschi"