This classic stage enables you to enter the heart of the Bernina range, in an area which still has many of the largest glaciers in the Italian Alps. The Marinelli hut is one of the most important, most well-known, Alpine refuge huts: together with the Corna Rossa Hut(renamed Desio Refuge Hut, currently unfit for use), it was one of the first to be built in Valmalenco many years ago in 1880. Once you have passed the beautiful natural environment of Bocchel del Torno, the route descends into the valley along the partly modernised ski slopes, until it reaches and follows the old mule track leading from Lanzada to the Marinelli Refuge hut. It passes through extensive woods and the pastures of Campascio and the higher pastures of Musella. At approximately 2,240 m above the Musella, we meet the route from Campo Moro and continue between gentle, morainal lands alternating with steep slopes as far as the Carate refuge hut, a few metres from Bocchetta delle Forbici. Here the panorama opens up to the famous, spectacular view of the Bernana Group reflected in the waters of the lake of the same name.