Bivacco Jacques Guiglia

The place

Small metal bivouac at 2437 m on a ridge separating the upper Fremamorta lake and the Pian della Casa, at the head of the Valletta valley (Italian Alpi Marittime, Gesso valley). Panoramic viewpoint over the west face of the Argentera massif. Small prefabricated metal barrel-shaped structure, inaugurated on 19 July 1976, owned by the Ligurian section of the CAI. Dedicated to the memory of Giacomo Guiglia, a major figure of the CAI's Ligurian section in the decades before the Second World War, a pioneer of winter mountaineering in the 1920s, author of the "Guide d'hiver et alpin des Alpes Ligures" published in 1932. 9 beds, free access — check availability with the CAI Ligurian section.