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An excellent refuge where you can stop for a bite to eat after a hike or a ski run. Traditional cuisine, cash and card payments accepted.

There used to be a path here, now they've built a highway...

nice descent not too challenging s2 S3 is reached by arriving at the Rif Capanna 2000. yes turn left going down towards the flower path. pay attention at the beginning short exposed and technical sections.

Ancient working mill going up the grassy plain just behind you rejoins the road to the Mezzeno huts

very charming grassy clearing

As of today (2025) only the remains remain

Lake Branchino is located in the Orobie Prealps, between the Seriana and Brembana valleys, on the administrative border between the municipalities of Ardesio and Oltre il Colle. It is possible to reach the lake from three different points: from the Seriana valley, starting from Valcanale, a hamlet of Ardesio and following the CAI trail number 220 that reaches the Alpe Corte refuge and, passing alongside numerous huts, goes up to the Branchino refuge and then to the lake; from the Brembana valley, from the town of Roncobello via a carriage road that touches the locality of Costa Superiore and the hamlet of Capovalle. A little further upstream the trail becomes a path, along which follow the signs for the Branchino pass; from the Serina valley, via trail number 222 that goes up to the Capanna 2000 refuge and then continuing along the Sentiero dei Fiori

Started halfway up the climb the Afternoon recording with a snowy path, with crampons doable by everyone without difficulty. Landscape that always offers breathtaking views. Having arrived at the pass practically alone and with the sun that was now setting, the muffled silence gave us a feeling of lightness and wonder.