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Albegna Superiore

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The village of Roccalbegna stands where the Albegna (here a stream, not yet a river) comes out from a wide gorge whose bottom is occupied by a steep chaos of boulders on which the stream makes little cascades and pools. All looks majestic, but if you try going through the gorge you realize that it's even more majestic than it appears from the outside.

Name	Albegna Superiore
Area	Toscana
Nearest village	Roccalbegna
Entrance altitude (above sea level)	690 m
Exit altitude (above sea level)	525 m
Length	1 km
Longest rappel	6 m
Rock	Limestone
Rating	2 (winter, spring)
Shuttle	Possible
Explored by	Firs known canyoning descent: Michele Angileri, Andrea Pucci; june 28th 2011

I remember ...

Unfortunately that was the wrong time. Of course, we didn't know it: we had chosen that period because a few months before we had seen a very large flow-rate through the canyon, and that looked really dangerous. We were wrong: this time water was too few, and there was a little flow only in the first part of canyon, while the longest part (the majestic chaos of boulders) was completely dry. I felt so disappointed that I stopped doing photographs: that's why you see no photograph of the most characteristic features of Upper Albegna canyon. To see how it is you have only one way: go and see. If you are a skilled canyoneer my advice is: go there when the flow is like the one in the first seconds of video-clip. Otherwise, if your skills are a little more than hikers, do as we did: go there in summer.

Photographs in this website show ultralight ropes (6 mm ropes made of high tenacity fibers). Read multimedia book Ultralight ropes canyoning technique to learn how to use them.