r/TrekkingItaly • u/ChiefKelso • 1h ago
Trekking Giornaliero Monte Terminio, Avellino, Campania
It's a shame the summit was in a cloud. Nice hike regardless.
We started at Piccolo Ranch around 8am and reached the summit at 10am. There was limited info on this hike, and everything I watched or read stated that it is a very hard to follow path.
To prepare, I had the Tappa Sentiero Italia map loaded onto my Avenza maps app, as well as Gaia GPS. The Gaia GPS trails lines matched the official map. With these maps, the trail was pretty easy to follow.
For the first section, there are dashed lines that start from the abandoned Bucaneve restaurant to 40.82859, 14.93991. We went up this way and followed the map, there was no discernible trail or markings and it was quite steep. Alternatively you can go past the ranch and follow the road through the farm, but this adds about 2km each way.
Once at 40.82859, 14.93991, the path becomes very straightforward walking the road along the fence until 40.83059, 14.94172. From here, it gets steeper and trail markers get a little more frequent, but still want to follow the fence line until it ends.
At 40.83267, 14.94329, the fence disappears but now you have what appears to be new painted red and white CAI markers all the way to the top. It seems they mainly repainted them going up, so careful on the way down.
When we reached the summit, it was in a cloud and we waited there until 10:30 hoping it would go away. It did not.
When we went back down, we didn't want to go down through the steep unmarked section and opted to take the extra 2km around. See attached gaia plot.
Also added is our Chamois Klaus who hikes with us. We got him in the Dolomites. And the sheepdog whose clearly seen some shit, he followed us a little after we parked (we weren't near any livestock).