Hiking - The Barbero Community Hut

Fairly short excursion, on excellent trails and not at all monotonous: the path often runs beside a tumbling torrent and passes near a lovely waterfall.

The route passes through a number of habitats, from woods to mountain grazing grounds. The grassy hillock on which the Barbero community hut is located is often visited by groups of chamois. The lower Gias della Vagliotta, still in use, is the place where delicious cheeses are made.

After crossing the Ponte della Vagliotta bridge(1093 m), the path begins in the beech wood, slightly to the right of the bridge.
The path climbs up the Vallone della Vagliotta valley gently at first, with long switchbacks through the beeches on a comfortable mule track. Winding through the woods for a long tract, the path remains on a gentle incline. Some slightly tighter switchbacks precede its entry in a narrow defile whose walls plunge down to the Rio della Vagliotta torrent below. The path leads across the ravine on the orographic left and proceeds in tight hairpin turns along a rocky slope with low scrub vegetation.
After crossing the torrent on a pretty wooden bridge, the path rises up a grass-covered detritic slope, with numerous switchbacks and beautiful vistas of the little pocket valley below.
Passing by a small waterfall on the right, the path continues on with switchbacks (often cut by shortcuts, sometimes more clearly marked than the main trail) until it reaches a second picturesque waterfall.
A bit further on, the path enters a broad bowl-shaped meadow, which it runs through until the fork, a few dozen meters before the recently constructed lower Gias della Vagliotta. Ignoring the left fork, which leads to the Costi Bivuoac and the Barra della Vagliotta pass, hikers follow the right fork, to the Barbero Community Hut. The path almost immediately comes to a wooden footbridge, crossing the Rio della Vagliotta for the third time, and then, cutting back on itself, veers to the northwest, heading towards the grassy hilloock atop which lies the Bivouac.
After a brief tract with an imperceptible incline, the trail reaches the base of the hillock. At the left end of the second switchback, the trail forks: it's advisable to avoid the clearly marked (but very steep) shortcut to the right and stay on the left branch, which leads, after two long uphill traverses, to the Barbero Community Hut(1669 m, 1 hour and 55 minutes from the Ponte della Vagliotta bridge).