PUNTA CASSANA "Piz Saliente" (SO).

photo:bit.ly/3E8qfwo - video track:www.relive.cc/view/vZqN7pJ7VGv - Route (EE - T3) of about 13 kilometers - positive elevation gain 1260 meters. - This is an excursion on another 3000 meters of Livigno: Punta Cassana. By car, head towards the entrance to Val Federia and park at the beginning of the VASP road before the Calcheira Bridge. Immediately after the bridge over the Federia stream there is a signpost with signs indicating "Pizzo Cassana" for Piz di Rin, go right. The path comes out in the locality of Camposctin where you must avoid continuing in the Val Saliente then leave the N.175 and take the N. 173; on no sign will you ever read the destination Punta Cassana. Just above the huts, take the path that reaches a junction where you take the N.174 which climbs in a N-W direction. Only at an altitude of 2280 m above sea level is the first detour indicating the Piz Saliente, you do not take it but continue northwards. Further on, another junction allows you to choose 2 itineraries that still go towards the set destination. It is better to avoid taking the high route because at an altitude of 2450 m / asl you have to overcome the crossing of a gully in the rocks on a gravelly surface, without chains or metal ropes, which presents great difficulties. Continuing on the low path, you follow a track that in some very short passages is on unstable and steep soil. Arrived at 2650 m / asl, where the high route is intercepted, the climb becomes easier; there are some trail signs and many stone cairns. You enter a large morainic amphitheater, with an almost lunar appearance, which is dominated by Piz di Rin (Pizzo Cassana), Punta Cassana (Piz Saliente), Punta Tropione and Monte Saliente. On the Swiss cartography, the toponyms of Piz di Rin and Punta Cassana are inverted. Continue keeping to the right orographic side and at 2700 m / asl you will find the second detour to Piz di Rin on the left. Continuing westwards, however, you reach and pass a rock thus arriving on the side of the "Laghet da Saglient"; then in a short time you arrive at the Bocchetta Saliente (2900 m / asl). If you turn left, you take the ridge that climbs to the challenging Piz di Rin, while deviating to the right you take a not difficult ridge that climbs to 3016 m above sea level of Punta Cassana. There are beautiful views of the valleys that descend towards the Engadine with a very varied morphology, then the large and steep morainic slope below the Piz di Rin, to the south you can see the Bocchetta di Leverone, and to the east the valley made during the ascent. It is advisable to return to the Calcheira Bridge by taking the same route as the ascent to avoid surprises on the other paths.  -"Bergheil" buonC@mmino - no fountains -gpx(setetrak):bit.ly/3BR7zPY -interactive route:www.relive.cc/view/vZqN7pJ7VGv/explore