The names men have given to places often provide very apt descriptions, so anyone intending to walk from Passo del Lupo ("Wolf Pass" - 1550 metres) to Cresta del Gallo ("Cock's Crest") simply has to start off along the Colombaccio ski slope and then aim for a rock spur which really looks very much like a cockerel's crest. From here, path 449 leads to Salto della Capra ("Goat's Leap"), another rocky spur cleft by a wide crack.

Another few hundred metres along the airforce road bring the walker to Pian Cavallaro (1861 metres), a broad green valley where horses are turned loose to graze. Beyond the Alpicella (the ridge which forms the North West border of Pian Cavallaro), a path which is sometimes hard to find amongst the bilberries and meadow grass leads down to Sette Fontane, where there is still a cistern to collect the water from the "Seven Springs" which give the spot its name. We are now below the tree-line, so the path, occasionally difficult to identify after earth-moving works, is now in the shade of a beech wood. This is the area where charcoal-burners used to work in the 1950s; the circular terraces noticeable beside the path, where black soil and a few fragments of charcoal can still be found, are all they have left behind. After emerging from the wood, the path leads back to Passo del Lupo, completing the circular walk.

Walking in the mountains above Fanano:
on Libro Aperto, a striking peak on the border of Tuscany and Emilia

After passing the Doccione waterfall, the Fellicarolo road from Fanano finally comes to an end at I Taburri, a plateau with two or three houses. The climb from here to Monte Libro Aperto (1936 metres) is tough, since the rise is of over 700 metres. Path 433 leads upward for an hour through a beech wood, which finishes on a bluff with a few scattered large beeches, their roots exposed and branches bowed by the wind, that marks the next stage on the climb. After Pizzo dei Sassi Bianchi ("White Stone Bluff"), which certainly deserves its name, the final upward pull to the peak starts, along a rocky path giving a view of a fine show of wild rhododendrons in late June. Monte Libro Aperto can be reached either by a path that climbs straight up to the lower of the two peaks which give it its unusual forked shape, or by another, less steep, which leads along the shoulder of the mountain. There is a choice of return routes, but we recommend the path (marked 00) that leads along the main ridge to Cima Tauffi. Here walkers can turn left down path 524, which descends along the grassy ridge of Cima Tauffi to Passo del Colombino, beyond low mountain pines. From there, path 445, wide and shady, drops back down to I Taburri.