From Chiareggio, a hamlet of the municipality of Chiesa in Valmalenco, Valtellina, located at the mouth of Val Sissone, about 12 km from the main town, continue along the road to Località "Pian del lupo" where it is possible to park the car.

Here we already find signs indicating various itineraries and shelters, continue on foot along the detrital valley floor and enter the fir forest of the plain passing some huts. Past the bridge over the Mallero Torrent we immediately find signs for the hut on the right. The path climbs steeply in the woods, immediately gaining a few meters in elevation, until it reaches the bank in the direction of the stream just crossed. After a few minutes the path goes up again until it crosses path no. 325/1, which leads to the nearby Tartaglione Refuge. Just beyond already in view of the bridge you cross the stream gaining the Alpe di Vazzeda Inferiore.

Here the trail turns and heads north toward the top of the pasture reaching some small rocks and surrounded by characteristic mountain pines. The ascent becomes steeper and steeper until we reach a small valley where, with numerous hairpin bends, we reach a small shelf that precedes the upper Alpe di Vazzeda; with the help of some artificial steps, we cross the short rock jump that separates us from the pasture, continue in the direction of the now abandoned huts and, ignoring the fork to the more distant Passo del Forno (trail no. 326), we take a slight left as we reach the larch and stone pine forest that climbs up to the moraine above.

With numerous switchbacks the main trail disperses into intersecting tracks and you gain elevation among blueberries and rhododendrons until you leave the moraine (yellow triangle of the Alta Via and CAI) in a southwesterly direction and reach the first of several streams'watercourses that descend from the Vazzeda glacier, from here continue initially slightly uphill along a traverse to an altitude of 2400 meters passing vast alpine meadows and watercourses until arriving almost in the direction of the refuge. The trail now points sharply in the direction of the ridge, passing the last lean meadows and rocks and reaching the junction that leads to Passo del Forno. Pass the latter and continue to the cairn above already in view of the refuge, which is reached in a few minutes."

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