All week we have been eying up the Monte S. Primo ridge, just above Bellagio, but the 1.5 hour drive there and back put us off. So Jude decided to take the boat to Como (that’s her setting off in one of the pics) while I took the steep path up to Colmegnone (@1383m) and on to the Rifugio Binate before turning back to descend via another path to Urio.  Jude had just disembarked only 10 minutes earlier, so I caught her up on the way back to the apartment Laglio.

Roccolo di San Barnardo

Italian signposting

The path was in the woods for most of the way

One point colour photo

Flower en route

Painting on the side of a rustic building

At the top of Colmegnone

Jude setting off to Como from Urio

View from the top of Colmegnone

One of the many lizards that scurry around – luckily this one stood still long enough !

The steep, well made path down

Rifugio sign

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