Val dal Saient - Short version

Bathing in a frozen lake high in the mountains on hot summer days: nowadays, people enjoy this refreshing pleasure gladly during a hike. In the past in contrast, enjoying a bath was rare - and certainly not in a mountain lake. Anyone who did so was considered insane. This is what happened to the poschiavini who occasionally bathed in one of the mountain lakes in the Val dal Saient. For this reason, the lake was named "Lagh dal Mat" (madman's lake).

The lake can be reached from Alpe Pescia Bassa, after passing Lagh dal la Regina and some small unnamed lakes. The circular trail continues, leading to Col d'Anzana. From here it is worth taking a few steps over the border, to get a glimpse of Valtellina from the rocks at the edge of the pasture. The trails in this area, are much more comfortable to walk on than the section along the mountain lakes. This is because these trails were used as smuggling routes until the 1980s.