The hunters' mule track and the ice quarry

Just beyond the walkway near the lower Gias della Vagliotta, about thirty meters to the left of the path, it isn't hard to pick out an old mule track that climbs up, to no apparent destination, among the heights of the Asta Sottana. In point of fact, the mule track served a dual purpose: it led to a hunting blind and the nearby semi-permanent snowfield, which, when the royal family spent their summers in the valley, was the source of the ice used to preserve food and cool the beverages enjoyed by visitors to the Hot Springs.