Webcam Sasso Remenno
Sasso Remenno (858 m), (local time): 13 °C, showers, feels like 13 °C, wind 3 km/h E, humidity 80%. Source: Open-Meteo, at the camera's altitude.
Sasso Remenno webcam: the great granite boulder and the plain of Val Masino. Check the weather and whether the rock is dry before you climb.
Straight-line distances from Sasso Remenno
This webcam, in brief
How the camera works and what to expect from the images.
What can you see on the Sasso Remenno webcam?
The great granite boulder and the plain of Val Masino, in the province of Sondrio. It is the camera to check for the weather, the light and the state of the rock before you set off to climb.
How high is the Sasso Remenno?
Its walls reach about 55 metres according to most sources (some say 40). It is a compact block of granite, the local "ghiandone", that fell into the valley in a landslide, and local sources call it the largest erratic boulder in Europe.
Can you climb at the Sasso Remenno all year round?
Usually from spring to autumn, on dry rock. After rain or snow the rock takes time to dry: the webcam shows the conditions with the time of each shot.
How do you get to the Sasso Remenno?
From Ardenno, on the SS 38 of the Valtellina, follow the provincial road into Val Masino as far as Cataeggio and past kilometre 11.5 of the Cataeggio–Filorera road: the boulder is beside the road, with parking nearby. There is no entrance fee.
Where is the Sasso Remenno?
In the heart of Val Masino, in the province of Sondrio, about 20 kilometres from Sondrio. The coordinates are 46.2207 N, 9.6375 E.
What is the weather in Val Masino now?
The webcam shows it with the time of the shot, from the valley floor to the walls. Higher up, at Bagni di Masino and the huts, the weather can be very different from the plain.
Discover Sasso Remenno
The Sasso Remenno stands on the Zocca plain, between Filorera and San Martino, at about 850 metres, beside the road that climbs Val Masino. It is not alone: around it are other granite blocks up to 20 metres high, with names such as Lo Scivolo, La Torcia and Goldrake. The Sasso alone exceeds half a million cubic metres.
Travellers have always noticed it. In 1616 Johann Guler von Weineck, who had been governor of Valtellina for the Three Leagues, described it in his "Raetia": a huge, colossal boulder near the small hamlet of Remenno, which some took for a mountain rather than a single stone. In 1864 the Irish mountaineer John Ball noted that people had carried earth to the top of some of the boulders in the area to grow potatoes.
The first to climb the Sasso were shepherds looking for fodder: they cut a stone stairway into its west side. Climbers have been coming to the valley since the 1970s, and the Melloblocco meeting is usually held in early May. San Martino, the highest village in the valley, is just beyond, at 923 metres. Explore Val Masino, the Valtellina webcams, Morbegno or the map.
Did you know?
Val Masino has hosted the Melloblocco, an international bouldering meeting, since 2004: in 2016 it drew over 8,000 people from 22 countries, and its organisers present it as the most important in the world.