Valle dell'Orco Boulder

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Italy’s splendid Orco Valley, located to the west of Turin, has traditionally been the home to some of the country’s premier trad climbing but beneath its splendid granite rock faces sits some of country’s greatest bouldering potential. With the advent of the first Orcoblocco bouldering meeting in 2014 new sectors were discovered and cleaned and currently there are nine main areas which previously had never been caressed with by chalk-covered fingers. 130 boulders host a total of 350 problems, and these don’t include the historic sector below the Sergent rock face, famous above all for the Fessura Kosterlitz, nor all those gems discovered by Austrian powerhouse Bernd Zangerl.

GETTING THERE

From Milan
Take the motorway A4 for Turn, leave this at Santhià and head towards Aosta. Exit at Ivrea and continue towards Cuorgnè, then Ceresole Reale following signs for SP 460. 180km, 2:15.

From Turin
Reach Caselle following Turin's northern ringroad, or take SP 460 that leads from Turin to Ceresole Reale, driving past Rivarolo Canavese. 80km 1:15.

From Aosta
Take the motorway A5 towards Turin, exit at Ivrea, continue for Cuorgnè and Ceresole Reale. 130 km 1:45. Public transport: reach Ceresole Reale using the Canavesana buses run by GTT. Rivarolo Canavese can be reached by train from Turin Porta Susa. From Rivarolo Canavese take the GTT bus up into Valle dell'Orco and Ceresole Reale. Pont Canavese can be reached by train; buses lead from here directly to Ceresole Reale. info 800019152.

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