Monte Semprevisa

From Pian della Faggeta (865–890 m), about 7 km above Carpineto Romano, park on the dirt lay-by at the start of the Anello della Faggeta. Follow path LH3 for about 10 minutes, then branch right onto path 707 (white-red waymarks on bark and white stones). It climbs across the slope, at first with little shade, then enters the beech forest and follows a gully to the Acqua Mezzavalle spring (about 1,215–1,220 m, about 1 hour), where the beech woods end. Continue to the grassy saddle at 1,320 m between Monte Capreo (right) and the Semprevisa (left), which has benches. Turn left, doubling back a few tens of metres, and head south into the woods (marker on a tree on the right). In about 15 minutes you reach the Schiazza di Paolone, an inscribed stone where path 710 from Bassiano joins. From here the path continues through beech forest and then along a rocky ridge to the summit cross (1,536 m) in about 45 minutes. The summit has been named 'Cima Nardi' after the Sezze-born mountaineer Daniele Nardi. Descend the same way (about 1 hour 40 minutes), or make a loop south-east over Monte La Croce to Pian dell'Erdigheta and back on a dirt road to Pian della Faggeta (about 6 hours in all, 750 m up). The karst plateau around the summit is pitted with deep, unmarked sinkholes, some only partly covered with sticks; stay on the path, especially in fog, when waymarks are easy to lose among the many side tracks.