Colombin waterfalls, from Forno Alpi Graie

Introduction

Short hike without difficulty, but recommended for the natural environment.

Description

From Forno Alpi Graie (at the bottom of the Val Grande di Lanzo, the northernmost of the three) you do NOT take the path leading to the Daviso refuge, and which climbs to the left of the stream (looking upstream), but instead you enter the village and take a path that starts to the right of the stream. The path is fairly level. After ten minutes you come to a junction that says Gias Travet on the right and Gias Colombin on the left, and predicts a time of 40 minutes (it actually says 0.40 hours, and a mathematician might think it takes 24 minutes... but that's a digression!). The 40 minutes is more than enough, because after half an hour at the bottom of the valley, you climb for about ten minutes, climbing up the right side of the stream, and suddenly you find yourself halfway up the final part of the waterfall. If, as happened to us, the day is particularly hot, you can even get wet, or go directly into the waterfall and get a vigorous massage from the water cascading down from about ten metres high... It is also an advisable walk because of the natural environment. Nowadays, it is not easy, as it happened to us, to see three St John's Lilies and four Martagonons on the same hike, without even going to look for them! ... and you walk among the laburnums!