At Piano Battaglia parking there was a map showing the trail passing underneath the summit with a short un-marked path to the top of Piano Battaglia. We soon found out that this was incorrect because the marked trail 551 took us directly to the summit.

From the parking, we crossed a flat grassy meadow, heading northeast, first along a dirt track then a good trail. It soon turned to northwest alternating in the woods or in open terrain. We walked past a signpost saying “Pizzo Carbonara” 1 h, trail 551, then dove into another  verdant wood. Higher up, there were more and more open areas. The trail was little frequented on the day of our hike. We saw more deer than humans! The relatively easy climb continued a bit more, and we turned north before the summit became visible in front of us.

The 551 trail went straight to the mountain top. We had a 360° panorama in spite of some haze. In addition, the nearby summits were almost as high as Carbonara.

We descended first heading west, then south where the 551 trail again ran through both some picturesque woods and rocky limestone terrain.

At about 1900 m elevation, we suddenly came to an intersection. A red and white marked trail forked sharply to the right, again no signpost, but we knew to ignore this and continued south.

At about 1730 m elevation, we came to another intersection (no signposts) where white and red marked trails separated (7 on the terrain map). We correctly thought that the right-hand trail descended to the lower parking by the S113 road. We forked left (east) and headed towards Piano Battaglia. The trail merged with the S113 road 500 m before our starting point. This trail was not shown on the map at the parking.

All in all, it turned out to be a great hike in pristine nature. We were even able to take some photos of a herd of deer .