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Lake
Pinter
Located
at 2689 meters of altitude, this beautiful lake district is reachable by
path 12 from Ostafa in two hours, althought the path is marked as EE,
which means “Skilled Excursionists”, on maps. Personally, I’ve
never used the cableway because I’ve always started from Champoluc via
Crest and Cuneaz, to get there for the sunrise, a good moment for
fishing.
One
you’ve passed Cuneaz, you get into a beautiful little valley patrially
covered by woods or meadows, on which floor there’s Torrent Cuneaz.
Climbing towards the valley’s left side you discover that you’re
going directly to an high (dreadfully high) rocky chain: where
will the lake be?
Simple:
the lake it’s located behind the chain. So, you have to cross
that! The slope starts when you have gone beyong a tony ground, and
it’s quite hard; it’s impossible to avoid that, even if you come
from Ostafa.
So,
you have to ascent a hundred meters on the rocks, and that asks for
efforts and time; but the path is well marked and doesn’t have
particular difficulties, and takes up really quickly. There aren’t
particular dangers, but it’s not fit for beginners at all.
The
slope ends when you are already between mountain’s spurs, where the
field become a pleasant and repared meadow which goes eastwards. If you
go ther in July, the place will be full of beautiful snowfields.
To
reach the lake you simply have to walk for 50 meters, and then turn
right: you’ll see first two lakes, and then the bigger one. From the
west bank of the lake on the right you can admire Cervino in all its
glory.
The
bigger lake is really pretty: it has got one grassy bank, and another
one made by big masses, fallen from the overstanding mountain. Westwards,
there’s a spectacular rocky funnell in which water falls: it’s
Torrent Cuneaz’s spring.
Varasc.it
came back to Pinter on Monday 26th July 2004 and saturday 28th
August 2004, while ascending to Testa Grigia. But here’s the chronicle
of 26th July’s run.
I
was started from Champoluc at 7.45 AM, and I reached Crest Moreletè at
8.25 AM. Twenty minutes later I was at Cuneaz (2032 meters) and I had to
face a problem... a group of cows who didn’t like very much Tracey I
suppose, and they prevented us from going towards from 9.40 to 10.05, in
a very narrow point of the path.
By
11 o’clock, however, we were arrived in the meadow under Pinter, where
we arrived less than ten minutes after. At 12.05 we left, because we
wanted to see Perrin Lake too; twenty minutes later we took path 13C
which links 12 and 13 passing under the spurs of Mascognaz Pass. The
path goes down a lot, and disappears in a beautiful meadow with a lot of
flowers; to follow the path you are forced to look for yellow signals
painted on rocks, sometimes far one from each other, but you have to
mind that you have to go forward. Once you climb the first slopes,
however, you’ll find again the path: from there you take path no. 13,
after the little plaque, which took us to Perrin by 13.40 PM.
Just
one warning: the mobile works on 13, but doesn’t do the same on the
meadow north of the lake.
We
finally arrived at Mascognaz by 14.39 PM, and we reached it at 16.15.
From there, we arrived in Champoluc. Finally,
Pinter offers beautiful scenarios and strong emotions, and if you want
to go to Perrin with 13C you can admire in one day some of the best
lakes of Ayas.
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