Monte Fasce T Rovesciata - Tupango

Mount Fasce with the historic inverted T descent cannot be missed as a Genovesato itinerary, here it is combined with the easier Tupango, a smoother and more enjoyable worked trail that still retains the technical characteristics of the south side of Mount Fasce. Great merit of these descents is the very quick drying after rains and a very easy access, thanks to the dense network of trails, countless more or less long and technical combinations are possible.

First ascent from Via Shelley as described for Monte Cordona to be able to carb up at a leisurely pace (if you prefer you can do the one described later), after the hairpin bend of Oasi di Preghiera we leave the asphalt and climb with a very nice route on the Methane Pipeline path that with a sea view takes us up to the summit of Monte Fasce without seeing asphalt anymore. From the square of the antennas we take the Topinigi path that skirts a small wall on the left for a few meters, beware that a little further to the right the Geometra also starts going down the north side!

The trail makes a series of very nice and surprisingly smooth turns until a hairpin bend with a small house on the methane pipeline ascent path. The party is over and instead of continuing on Topinigi, we climb left on slender track and in 20 meters we are on the inverted T.

Watch out because we immediately start with the most technical section of the trail, which consists of a series of fixed rock steps and two narrow switchbacks, one of which is succeeded by a step that if without a stone at the base is fall over the bar assured.

We then continue on the hyper-panoramic ridge with a route that is not always obligatory and obvious, on fixed rock but peppered with several moving stones and ruts. Along the descent there is only a very short climb to be done largely on foot to arrive on super panoramic forecourt.

Another rather technical and continuous section wags us onto the paved forecourt of Monte Moro where we take the trail (railing on the left) that skirts the buildings on the east side (watch out for glass), then traverses on the south side to arrive above the World War II anti-aircraft battery settlements, at this point descending straight south is the direttissima to Nervi, a route for connoisseurs.

The inverted T, on the other hand, bends toward the Ponente with a somewhat easier route but still to be driven carefully until you reach the roof of the bunkers overlooking the Quinto district. Last stretch fun but still very rustic until the cemetery of Quinto from which we take Corso Europa again and return to the starting point.

Now that we are nice and warm we climb with a more direct route from Quarto alto as already described on the itinerary of Monte Bastia going to do the Traverso trail (watch out for exposed sections), rejoining the previous ascent we climb up to the thundering of the Oasi di preghiera to follow the traverse trail (signs for Nervi) that with a very nice route and some technical passages takes us to the wide ridge exposed to the south on which the Topinigi trail ends (interrupted in the previous descent).

Here begins the Tupango descent that immediately gives us a series of very beautiful, slightly banked but still rocky worked curves that allow speeds otherwise impossible on this slope until we descend to the M. Moro road. Having crossed the road, we resume the lower part of Tupango, immediately on smooth terrain with even a small jump, then gradually more rocky requiring ever-so-careful driving until we reach near the houses that we cross on slate steps to be done on foot.

All that remains is to descend on asphalt and shortly arrive at the starting point.