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Trail 554, Norcia: Forca Viola – Monte Argentella

S Start: Forca Viola · 1,935 m A Finish: Monte Argentella · 2,076 m

Map and track: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).

Trail facts

Start
Forca Viola · 1,935 m
Finish
Monte Argentella · 2,076 m
Route
one way
Trail marker
554
Municipality
Norcia

Trail 554 climbs from Forca Viola, a pass at about 1,936 m, toward Monte Argentella and ends on trail 558, at about 2,075 m, just below the summit. It is 2.1 km long, with about 170 m of ascent and 30 of descent, in the municipality of Norcia. CAI difficulty grade: E.

Distance
2.14 km
Elevation gain
+171 m
Elevation loss
−30 m
Lowest point
1,935 m
Highest point
2,109 m
Difficulty
E, hiking
Time
0 h 55 min (estimate)

From the OpenStreetMap track and the Copernicus DEM profile; time is an estimate.

Before you go

Forecast at the start

  1. Today6° / 1°0.3 mmCloudy

Forecast by MET Norway, updated automatically · license CC BY 4.0

Rules and orders: Park website. Snow and avalanches: Meteomont bulletin.

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Elevation profile
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Ascent
171 m
Descent
30 m
Lowest point
1,935 m
Highest point
2,109 m

Elevations: Copernicus DEM GLO-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018.

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Indicative OpenStreetMap track: check the markers and trail conditions on site.

The route of trail 554

From Forca Viola the trail climbs gently for one kilometer. At km 0.8 it passes the Fonte delle Fate spring, a few meters from the path, and shortly after, about seventy meters away, the Casale Argentella, marked as a bivouac, at about 2,000 m.

The steepest climb follows, about a hundred meters of elevation in five hundred meters, up to 2,100 m. The last six hundred meters descend slightly and reach trail 558, which trail 554 overlaps for the final 150 meters.

Trail 554 technical details

The summit of Monte Argentella, at about 2,200 m, is about three hundred meters to the side of the highest point of the trail; trail 558 reaches it in a few hundred meters.

Trail 554 map

At Forca Viola trail 554 meets trail 153, which descends into the valley of the Lago di Pilato, and the Strada Imperiale toward Capanna Ghezzi. Trail 558, at the end, links Monte Argentella to the Passo di Sasso Borghese.

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