Monte Guglielmo
Two skilifts above Pezzoro in the Val Trompia, built in the early 1970s and dismissed around 1997; the site is now an hour's walk or a four-wheel-drive track from the road.
- Region
- Lombardy
- Country
- Italy
- Status
- abandoned
- Year opened
- early 1970s
- Year closed
- circa 1997
- Reason for closure
- The difficulty of reaching the site, and a shortage of snow.
History
The two skilifts at Pontogna di Pezzoro stood on east-facing meadow at about 1,260 m on the flank of Monte Guglielmo, near the CAI Valtrompia refuge, in the comune of Tavernole sul Mella in the Val Trompia. They were built in the early 1970s and dismissed around ten years before the Mountain Wilderness survey of 2006-07, so about 1997, and the reasons given are access and snow - which the access tells you plenty about. The site is reached by a winding track passable only in a four-wheel-drive vehicle, or roughly an hour on foot. One of the lifts was found still complete but for its platters; of the other, only the pylons and the two end stations were left. Ownership was a private company. Course names are not compiled in accessible sources and no later survey of the site has been traced; the coordinates mark Pontogna.
Lifts
| Name | Type | Manufacturer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed lift | Surface lift | Found essentially complete, lacking only its platters | |
| Unnamed lift | Surface lift | Only the pylons and the departure and arrival stations of this one remained by 2006-07 |
Sources and further reading
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Location
45.7534, 10.1926