Casera Resettum

The mountains around Claut seem particularly wild to me.  Maybe it's because Claut is almost completely surrounded by peaks, with only Valcellina offering an escape route.  The most prominent peak blocking the southern flank is Monte Resettum, which I'm making my third attempt on today.

After parking at Claut I rode toward Lesis, missing the turn off and ending up at the fossilized dinosaur footprint trailhead.  I backtracked and finally found the hidden turn.  The road is concrete at first, then turns to sterrata.  It's steep but I just put the bike in low gear and kept spinning.  Near the area where I  was previously defeated by deep snow (in May 2015) I topped out and continued on to Casera Resettum.  The forest opens up here and you can see 360 degrees of mountains.  I was most impressed. 

The ride down was fun.  I passed some Corpo Forestale officers in a stopped Land Rover, then later they passed me on the steep dirt road.  Later I came around a bend and the road was now blocked by a large tree a fellow had cut down.  The Corpo Forestale guys waved me on and seemed disappointed I dismounted instead of using my trials bike skills to climb up and over this 3 foot diameter trunk.  

This is a beautiful ride which I will try next summer to connect Forcella Clautana with the trail to Lago Ca' Selva.  I'm confident I can do it, but  I need to wait for longer days to come around.      

Coming from Claut make this dogleg turn onto the gravel road

Mountains to west of Casera Resettum

View east from Casera Resettum

North

View southwest

Spectacular Monte Resettum