Monte Denza – Monte Scavo

Together with the one passing through Mounts Guardirazzi and Punta Lucia (no. 711) and the one departing from the Citelli Lodge (no. 723), this trail is one of the few tracks that allows reaching the summit areas of the Volcano without having to share the route with motor vehicles. Although crossing areas of great landscape importance and characterised by absolute integrity, the trail is very little used.

It starts from the Pista Altomontana, a little south of the San Giovanni Gualberto Lodge. Its initial segments unfold along a forest road leading to Case Carpinteri, to bend north through road abruptly interrupted by a 60-meters wide branch of a recent lava flow, which must be climbed over. The trail then gains altitude along a seasonal impluvium with a water-smoothed lava bed and then reaches M. Scavo, whose modest peak (1,918 m) offers a wide panorama overlooking the summit area. The trail now continues on a faint trace, merging slightly north-west of Torre del Filosofo with Trail no. 702, having overall overcome a difference in altitude of about 1,300 m.