The Lake Trail
Itinerary Lower Lake - Upper Lake - Alpe del Lago - Sella Colrotondo - Alpe del Lago - A.V.A.T - Lower Lake: Time required 4 hours Degree of difficulty Excursional Rest areas The three chalets on the lakes You take the Lake Trail and hike through a sort of "a cross-section of the surroundings", following an itinerary that goes along the banks of the lakes, then up to the Alpe del Lago and the scenic road of Sella Colrotondo then return through the forest, up to the minor lakes and back to the starting point . In fact, you go from a coniferous forest that surrounds the sheets of water to a beech wood towards Colrotondo, from the previously mentioned Alpe mountain pasture to the majestic erratic blocks of the moraines to the limpid waters of the lakes to the imposing rock faces of the Mangart . The trail can be easily completed in one day ; if the hike ends in the evening you will have the privilege of enjoying the exclusive and suggestive nuances of a sunset on the lakes . From the Lower Lake (924 m.) on a trail through the woods to the Upper Lake (929 m.). Along the trail you can admire the imposing size of the erratic blocks. After having passed the Upper Lake and a had a rest at the chalet, you follow the trail for 250 metres, then you go right at the fork and follow the cart-road up to Alpe del Lago (1006 m.). The scenery is beautiful and you walk along the edge of the wood and the meadows . At the Alpe you have a mountain hut, a large barn, a drinking trough and a pasture with typical herbage. From here, you follow trail mark 514-515 and in just over an hour you reach an altitude of 1400 metres and Sella Colrotondo . The woods are king. From the Sella you continue along the trail to Alpe del Lago. At 942 metres, at the fork with the trail of Alta Via Alpi Tarvisiane (A.V.A.T.) you follow the route to the Lower Lake , the departure point of the hike .