Val di Lares - La Via delle Valli

<p>Challenging and highly rewarding trekking characterized by constant steepness, powerful waters of waterfalls and streams, evocative scenery, and arrival at the alpine lake of glacial origin.</p>

<p>Val di Lares is accessed via Val Genova.<br/>The excursion starts from <strong>Malga Genova</strong>, where you take the <strong>SAT trail 214</strong>, opposite the park info point, just before the locality Ponte Rosso.<br/>The itinerary rises steeply alongside the <strong>Lares Waterfalls</strong> which, with powerful water leaps, crash forcefully on the rocks below forming wonderful rainbows.<br/>The waterfalls are fed by Lake Lares, recently formed by the retreat of the Lares glacier, which runs down the valley along the <strong>Rio Lares</strong>.<br/>The valley takes its name from the abundant presence of <strong>larches</strong> ("laras" in dialect) which in autumn assume indescribable golden colors.<br/>It is a demanding trail, especially in the first section that climbs a ledge of a few hundred meters and continues with a steep slope up to <strong>Malga di Lares</strong> where a long flat section begins. After the plateau you start climbing again in a magnificent and open environment over rocks framed by the Adamello glacier up to <strong>Lake Lares</strong>, located below Carè Alto.</p>