This is the shortest of the trails reaching Grotta del Gelo (see Trail no. 726above). It features a difference in altitude of 600 m and therefore, albeit its short course, (around 3.000 m) requires a one and a half hour walking, up to an altitude of around 1.800 m, along a strip of wood located across ancient lava rocks. It then unfolds out in the open upon a 4-century-oldlava. It consists of an often easily noticeable track, which in turn becomes a faint trace in some cases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This is the shortest of the trails reaching Grotta del Gelo (see Trail no. 726above). It features a difference in altitude of 600 m and therefore, albeit its short course, (around 3.000 m) requires a one and a half hour walking, up to an altitude of around 1.800 m, along a strip of wood located…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2813","sentiero","type-sentiero","status-publish","hentry","description-off"],"acf":{"sentieri":[{"ID":2737,"post_author":"2","post_date":"2019-11-12 15:21:28","post_date_gmt":"2019-11-12 14:21:28","post_content":"The 34.400-km route develops almost entirely along a ring-shaped wide road covering about 60% of the volcano\u2019s perimeter, located at an altitude between a minimum of 1,435 m on the north side to a maximum of 1,917 on the west side. The only exception is a short pass stretching through a narrow lava path resulting from the 1981 eruption, which spilled onto the north flank threatening the town of Randazzo.\n\nThe ring it outlines is not a closed one, due to the chasm of the Valle del Bove, not impossible though difficult to cross.\n\nThough curved in shape, the length and conformation of the Pista Altomontana make it a sort of backbone of the Etna trail network, as it is accessible from almost all the villages surrounding Etna through some paths featuring a roughly radial track. Subsequently, it is possible to proceed towards the summit areas from some of its junctions, following other paths through large radial lines.\n\nThe Pista Altomontana could be defined as the \"hub\" of the Etna trails, as it allows reaching the medium altitudes of the Volcano from one side and descend from another one.\n\nIt also allows crossing and enjoying almost all the landscapes that Mount Etna can offer, ranging from different types of tall trees forests and- in particular - pine woods with larch pine and beech woods, to harsh lava flows characterised by very diverse shapes and appearance. The Pista Altomontana roughly marks the border between the second and third of the three circular belts into which the ancient authors used to divide Etna, that is, the downstream wooded belt and the upstream volcanic desert belt.\n\nFinally, it allows admiring an hourly changing panorama overlooking the two underlying valleys of the Simeto and Alcantara rivers, the mountainous complexes of Nebrodi and Peloritani and the villages scattered across them. Along it, or at short distance, there are a dozen small buildings, generally owned by the former State Forestry Company, some of which are available as emergency shelter or a basic overnight stay for adequately equipped hikers.\n\nThe two ends of the route can be both reached by private motor vehicles and constitute Hiking Base Points.","post_title":"Pista Altomontana (Sentiero Italia)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"pista-altomontana-sentiero-italia","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2020-11-19 10:49:55","post_modified_gmt":"2020-11-19 09:49:55","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.old.unescoparcoetna.it\/sentieri\/pista-altomontana-sentiero-italia\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"sentiero","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":2795,"post_author":"2","post_date":"2019-11-12 15:21:28","post_date_gmt":"2019-11-12 14:21:28","post_content":"Of the four paths available today, this is the classic route used by generations of hikers to reach the site of an almost unique natural phenomenon in the South of Italy, namely a cave featuring a perennial, though modest, amount of ice. The Grotta del Gelo (Eng.: Ice Cave<\/em>) is located at an altitude of 2,030 m a.s.l., in the middle of a lava field produced by an epic eruption that, according to the chronicles, lasted ten years (1614-1624). It can be reached through a not always evident track departing from Passo dei Dammusi at an altitude of 1,707 along Hiking Trail no. 701. The difference in altitude is 323 m and its length approximately 3,800 metres.","post_title":"Grotta dei Lamponi \u2013 Grotta del Gelo","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"grotta-dei-lamponi-grotta-del-gelo","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2020-11-19 11:20:45","post_modified_gmt":"2020-11-19 10:20:45","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.old.unescoparcoetna.it\/sentieri\/grotta-dei-lamponi-grotta-del-gelo\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"sentiero","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":2815,"post_author":"2","post_date":"2019-11-12 15:21:28","post_date_gmt":"2019-11-12 14:21:28","post_content":"As for the trail described above, this, too, was created by the Etna mountaineers using a strip of territory, called Dagala dell'Orso, which remained unscathed from the lava flows for several centuries and on which, therefore, a splendid wooded area could develop (mainly beech).\n\nThe trail starts shortly after the junction between the Pista Altomontana and the small road leading down into Contrada La Nave, and creeps into the beech forest between the Sciara del Follone and the Dammusi\u2019s lava. Inside the \u201cdagala\u201d the trail is well preserved, while it becomes just a trace in the final section towards the cavity. It is 4,300 m long and has a difference in altitude of 605 m to reach the Grotta del Gelo.","post_title":"Rifugio Monte La Nave \u2013 Grotta del Gelo","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"rifugio-monte-la-nave-grotta-del-gelo","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2020-11-19 11:02:24","post_modified_gmt":"2020-11-19 10:02:24","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.old.unescoparcoetna.it\/sentieri\/rifugio-monte-la-nave-grotta-del-gelo\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"sentiero","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"parcheggi":"","grotte":"","rifugi":"","galleria":false,"lunghezza":"3.22","dislivello_massimo":"600","tempo_di_percorrenza":"2-3 ore","difficolta":"alto\/EE","percorribilita":"ottima (trekking\/bici)","informazioni_utili":"Ogni diramazione dal percorso principale \u00e8 indicata dalla caratteristica segnaletica del Club Alpino Italiano mentre lungo tutta la pista \u00e8 possibile trovare diversi segni di conforto a suggerire la direzione da seguire. Si consiglia a tutti gli escursionisti di non uscire dal percorso segnalato, di non gettare rifiuti e di non recare disturbo a vegetazione e\/o animali.","relation":"7844359","id_sentiero":"734","colore":"","punto_di_partenza":{"sentiero_di_partenza":false,"altezza_punto_di_partenza":""},"punto_di_arrivo":{"sentiero_di_arrivo":false,"altezza_punto_di_arrivo":""},"naturalistici":"","panoramici":"","punti_generici":""},"yoast_head":"\n