Climbing & Equipped paths

Garda Lake offers some of the world's largest and most complete natural practice crags for rock climbers, with many cliffs and equipped climbing gymnasiums.

Climbing

The lake is well known for its natural and plunging down rocks. From Malerba del Garda (the most southern climb rock) climbing is possible in Garda and in Marciaga, in Toscolano Maderno, Gargnano, Campione, Limone, Torbole, Nago and in the best known Sarca Valley with hundreds of climbing trails that are adapted to different levels of skill and length (from 10 to 1100 metres). An excellent ground for beginners is certainly the historical rock wall called "parete zebrata" (zebra-striped wall) of Pietramurata.
The Arco Rock Master taking place every year confirms the importance of this sport around the lake.


Equipped paths and wire equipped trails

On the rocks and mountains around the Lake of Garda there are about 15 Vie Ferrate (the so-called "Iron paths" call for particular equipment, including harnesses and ropes. Among the most important are:
- a short but difficult via ferrata (100 m completely vertical) leads to the Pirlo refuge on the Monte Spino, in the territory Gardone Riviera and Toscolano Maderno.
- two short and easy equipped paths in the Tremalzo massif, on the border between the Alto Garda Bresciano Park, the trentino sided lake and the Ledro Valley, on top of the Cima Capi (927 m): F. Susatti (100 m) and M. Foletti (100 m)
- above Riva del Garda there is the difficult via ferrata of the one hundred years old SAT, the "Via dell'Amicizia" (600 m vertical stretches on the Cima Sat 1250m
- above Arco there is the easy equipped trail of the Monte Colodri (350m)
- above Sarche di Calavino there is the nice and demanding ferrata Rino Pisetta (300 m vertical stretches with climbing tracks) leading to the Piccolo Dain (967m)
The Monte Baldo too offers some equipped trails:
- the short and easy path Corne di Bes or "Viper's path" that starts in San Valentino and leads to the botanic garden of Corna Piana
- the via ferrata Gerardo Sega (300 m vertical stretches) leads to Avio to the "Madonna della Neve" (1.020 m)