Valle Argentina: Riverbed trekking, walking upstream [Video Gallery]

Certain is the beauty and magic of the river and the strange alchemy created between the water, the foam, flowers, aquatic animals and each participant. A strange way of walking ascending the creek bed, unusual and generous new sensations, in an area so close and yet little known. To live an authentic adventure in the rivers of the region, which one can find "exotic", and perhaps never tried to experience such emotions.

Streambed Trekking is a sport that consists of " walking in the bed of a stream ", staying as far as possible in the water or at least in its riverbed and in its heart, and only in the presence of too deep water, to climb to the shore, and if this is not possible, because of particular difficulties, avoid  the obstacle on the neighboring slopes. Unlike other similar disciplines, such as canyoning or rafting, the characteristic of streambed trekking is that the course of the stream is traced (and not followed) from the mouth to the source, i.e. for essential parts of the water.

In harmony with the environment, in close contact with mountain desire combined with wanderlust, and with the desire to feel nature by running in it. Streambed Trekking is hiking and familiarizing with a place to discover loop after loop, cascade after cascade, along a route not built or marked by man, but by nature.

In the summer of 2006, the first streambed trekking on the river Argentina (IM) has traced the entire river from its mouth into the sea in Arma di Taggia to the spring at an altitude of 2090 m, below the summit of Monte Saccarello. The hike was completed in about 50 hours of hiking and climbing, divided into two tranches: from Arma di Taggia to Loreto and from Loreto to the source. It was the attempt to pass the valley from another point of view, not from the main road, most part near the river, between forests of chestnut and hornbeam, or rugged rocks, but from the interior of the river, in a new and unusual perspective, where sunlight shyly appears to paint the green leaves, water transparency and villages perched on the hillside above. Along the way you will find 45 bridges that people have built, so that the course of the water, in addition to life, does not bring the distance. Stone bridges and concrete bridges, iron bridges and wooden bridges, high bridges and embankments on bridges, covered with vines, inexplicably still intact despite the centuries or destroyed.

The route can be completed integrally with the support of gastronomic facilities such as restaurants and hotels and the Verdeggia shelter, for the whole 5 days, or in small sections of a day or two. Being in this little paradise, in colors and scents, hearing the voice of a river running to the sea, leaves the desire for that quiet noise.

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