Directions
Difficulty: E (hiking)
Park the car near the little church of Seo, located on the slopes of Monte Valandro, where trail SAT 348 starts, ascending partly along the old mule track with deep grooves carved into the pavement by sledges that transported hay down from the Valandro and Brugnol meadows.
The path climbs steeply through sunny woods covering the southern foothills of the Brenta group; at the end of the forest road, proceed along a mule track which, after passing “Caputel de Vessa”, overcomes some rocky ledges reaching the locality “I Salti”.
After “I Salti”, the mule track enters the vast meadows of Valandro, leaving to the left trail 346 coming from Stenico and Capitèl de la Spina, continue to ascend via trail 348 through steep slopes toward Malga Valandro, leaving the Benigni hut on the right hilltop. After crossing a small pass, the path follows the natural undulation of the land until reaching Malga Valandro, recently restored, located in a wide green basin. From the hut the path would continue towards Malga Asblez, in Val di Jon, and from there to the refuges Agostini and Al Cacciatore. Return is along the same route.
Monte Valandro, commonly called by locals “El Mont de Sténech” (mountain of Stenico), overlooks the villages of Stenico, Seo, and Sclemo. A powerful and imposing mountain, barren and exposed to the sun all day, behind and extending from which lies the Adamello-Brenta Natural Park and the Brenta Group. Viewed from the valley floor, beyond the initial rocky ledges, it shows an extensive and steep slope of green meadows, once mown and now left free for sheep grazing.
Return by the same route.
