The Alpe di Cusna (2121 m asl) is the highest peak of the Reggio Apennines and among the highest in the central-northern Apennines, described in many books as “the sleeping Giant” for its elongated shape, from which the summit detaches decisively, making the ridge resemble a lying human profile.
Its slopes are very steep and in some places difficult to travel in winter.
On the summit you can admire, if the sky is clear, beyond the steep ridges of the Apuan Alps, the Tyrrhenian Sea and Corsica.
Mount Cusna for the variety and beauty of the itineraries is in particular a destination for expert mountaineering skiers and hikers from Italy and abroad. The slopes below the summit are rich in blueberry moors, glacial basins with numerous botanical endemisms and marmot burrows.
Those who make excursions on the Cusna may be lucky enough to meet wild ungulates such as European deer, roe deer, wild boar; You can also meet marmots, hares, foxes and perhaps even the Apennine wolf.
It is an area used for centuries for grazing flocks of sheep, although in recent decades they have decreased a lot, in the past there were thousands of heads that were here in the summer.
On the slopes of Cusna there is also the ski resort of Febbio, which with its ski lifts allows you to reach the ridge at an altitude of 2000 meters, where there is also a refuge open only if the lifts are in operation.
