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Fara San Martino Epic
22km / Walk / Trail Run / Difficult
If youre looking for a spectacular, technical and challenging
full days hike, this is the one for you. You will
cross two deep gorges, go through dense woods and over barren
scree. There are steep climbs and difficult
descents. Its a great location for spotting wildlife,
particularly camosci. Be warned, however, its pretty
tough and you will need to allow 9 hours of daylight (and take a
good torch in case you get caught out).Youll also need good
visibility and conditions. This is not a route that you will want
to be doing in the dark
or bad weather.
1. Park up and follow the H1 track into thegorge, keeping to the
main path that takesyou past the ruins of the monastery.
2. After about 5km,1.5 hours of
walking, and800m of climbinglook out for atrack to the
right.Theres a large boulder with a crackrunning through it just
beyond the start ofthis track. At the time of writing, this
track,although listed on the map as the G6 is stillmarked along the
trail as the old F2.
3. Keep on this trail, following either the F2markers (or faint
yellow paint markers) thatyoull see on trees or rocks.
Sometimesthey are difficult to see, but they are there.
It does get a little difficult to work out wherethe path goes at
various points in thewoods, but if you find you have gone morethan
about 5 minutes without seeing amarker, and the path has become
vague,retrace your steps until you pick up the
markers again.
4. After about an hourswalking (still climbing)you will come to
adirectional postsignalling F2 to the left,Fontane to the right.You
only need go to theFontane if you need to
refill with water (its onlya few paces away),otherwise head in
thedirection of the F2.
Start: Entrance to the Fara San
Martino Gorge(45 min drive from Kokopelli)
Distance: 22 km
Elevation: 370m - 1,640m asl
Total ascent: 1600mDifficulty: Difficult
Hiking time: 8 - 10 hours
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5. Another 2km on, with further climbing taking about 30minutes,
eventually you descend to cross the streambefore reaching the
Grotta dei Callarelli that you will seejust above the stream.
6. From the Grotta, follow the track east and you are now,
slowly, starting to descend. Keep onthe track following the old
yellow F2 markers (G6 on the map).
7. After about 3 km your descent does become a lot more steep,
take care on the way down thescree and rocks as your legs will be
tired.
8. About 2 hours after leaving the Grotta, youll cross a
streamwith a fontane and youll see a cross on the summit above
you.Dont get confused and take the path up to the cross - staybelow
it and keep the cross to your left as you descend downand away from
it.
9. You will begin to see Lago diCasoli and Fara San Martino
waydown below. Great views, butyouve still got a long way to
go!
10.From this wonderful view of Fara,you have about another
20minutes of descent and then youwill need to start looking out
for
the right hand turning that takesyou down into Fara (just beyond
apicnic area).
11. This is the G3 and has beenmarked with the new red &
white stripes. It will take you all the way down back into
Fara,coming in behind the pasta factories. Even though these
markers are new, dont expect themto be easy to find! If you do miss
them, just keep descending and you will eventually reach
theroad.
12.When safely back at your car, give yourselves a big pat on
the back!
