With this photo I give an anticipation of the Giro d'Italia stage of tomorrow, which is going to cross Passo Mànghen. Taken from the Valsugana (south) side it is an ascent of 1700 m, comparable to the Stelvio of the following day: 1500 m from the Bormio side.
This year I cycled the Manghen for the first time on Easter Monday; the road was of course closed but it was possible to reach the pass by pushing the bicycle only a little stretch. It was on that occasion that I shot this pano.
Although it does not come from an inaccessible summit, but from 10 m far away from the asphalt, I can post it only here because on Panorama Photo I am temporarily out of uploads...
If anybody wants to research secret and untrodden paths on the flanks of Val Calamento, there is also a larger version: www.panoramio.com/photo/70747594
Hans-Jörg Bäuerle, Gerhard Eidenberger, Leonhard Huber, Thomas Janeck, Roland Mitterrutzner, Uta Philipp, Arne Rönsch, Bruno Schlenker, Christoph Seger, Anton Theurezbacher, Sieber Toni, Robert Viehl, Beatrice Zanon
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Inside the album https://picasaweb.google.com/102436106485838117236/Misc2008 you can find a photo report of the Giro 2008 crossing the Manghen. Hidden among the digital photos you will find also a scan of Pantani pedaling in pink before the last hairpin, in 1999. That afternoon the Giro arrived on the Alpe di Pampeago, like today... the following day Pantani won in Madonna di Campiglio... and the morning after passed to history as the one most fatal for him...
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