Monte Mucrone

Mountain in Italy

Monte Mucrone

Location in the Alps

LocationProvince of Biella, ItalyParent rangeAlpi BiellesiClimbingEasiest routeHiking from the Oropa cableway upper station

Monte Mucrone (or simply Mucrone) is an Alpine mountain of Piedmont (NW Italy).

Geography

The mountain belongs to the Biellese Alps, a sub-range of Pennine Alps; the Bocchetta del Lago, a pass at 2,026 m, divides it from the rest of the chain. The Mucrone is located between Elvo and Cervo valleys, and belongs to the Province of Biella. Administratively its main summit is the tripoint at which the borders of the municipalities of Biella, Sordevolo and Pollone meet. It visually dominates the Sanctuary of Oropa. On a subsummit at 2,302 m stands a huge metal cross. On a second subsummit, NW of the main elevation, stands the upper station of an old branch of the Oropa cableway, dismantled in 1982.^[4]

SOIUSA classification

According to the SOIUSA (International Standardized Mountain Subdivision of the Alps) the mountain can be classified in the following way:^[5]

main part = Western Alps
major sector = North Western Alps
section = Pennine Alps
subsection = Southern Valsesia Alps
supergroup = Alpi Biellesi
group = Catena Tre Vescovi - Mars
subgroup =
code = I/B-9.IV-A.1

Access to the summit

The easiest route for the Mucrone summit is a waymarked footpath which starts from Oropa Sport (the Oropa cableway upper station); the hike flanks at first a small lake, then reaches the Bocchetta del Lago and from there the summit, climbing the NW ridge of the mountain.^[6]

Mountain huts

Nearby Oropa Sport, at 1,850 m, is located Rifugio Rosazza, a permanent mountain hut.^[7]

Maps

Italian official cartography (Istituto Geografico Militare - IGM); on-line version: www.pcn.minambiente.it
Provincia di Biella cartography: Carta dei sentieri della Provincia di Biella, 1:25.00 scale, 2004; on line version: webgis.provincia.biella.it
Carta dei sentieri e dei rifugi, 1:50.000 scale, nr. 9 Ivrea, Biella e Bassa Valle d'Aosta, Istituto Geografico Centrale - Torino

References

^ Carta dei sentieri della Provincia di Biella 1:25.000, Provincia di Biella, year 2004
^ Geoportale IGM on www.pcn.minambiente.it
^ key col: Bocchetta del Lago (2,026 m)
^ Massimo De Carli (2019-04-23). "AG Base e Intermedio 15 settembre 2019: Oropa, Lago Mucrone" (in Italian). Club Alpino Italiano - Sezione di Calco. Retrieved 2019-11-05.
^ Marazzi, Sergio (2005). Atlante Orografico delle Alpi. SOIUSA (in Italian). Priuli & Verlucca. p. 134. ISBN 978-88-8068-273-8.
^ Piemonte (non compresa Torino) (in Italian). Touring club italiano. 1976. p. 500. ISBN 9788836500017. Retrieved 2019-11-05.
^ "Rifugio Rosazza" (in Italian). AGRAP – Associazione Gestori Rifugi Alpini e posti tappa del Piemonte. Retrieved 2019-11-05.