[Regions](/regions/) › [Valais / Zermatt](/regions/valais-zermatt/) › Punto Appoggio Alpe Cavaione

# Punto Appoggio Alpe Cavaione

[Valais / Zermatt](/regions/valais-zermatt/) · IT

- **Altitude**: 1,631 m
- **Sleeping places**: 12
- **Country**: Italy
- **Coordinates**: 45.8742, 8.1161
- **Booking method**: Alpine-club portal

[Book at the hut's own booking page](http://www.caivarallo.it/rifugi_cai_varallo/punto_appoggio_alpe_cavaione.php) [Open in the HutScanner map](/app?region=valais-zermatt&hut=hut_osm_node_2214726607)

You can walk to 2 huts from here in a day, listed below with times and grades, and we read the calendars of 45 huts in this network daily, so a multi-night route through here can be checked night by night.

Punto Appoggio Alpe Cavaione is an alpine hut at 1631 m in the Valais / Zermatt, IT. 2 other huts can be reached from here on foot in a day.

## Walkable from here

- [Rifugio La Baita](/huts/rifugio-la-baita-ossola-formazza/) - 1h17, 3.85 km, +198 m
- [Rifugio Obru Huusch](/huts/rifugio-obru-huusch/) - 3h49, 11.42 km, +1025 m

Times are estimates for an average fit hiker - terrain and conditions vary. Grades are the SAC hiking scale, judged the way the app judges them: the hardest ground that runs far enough to characterise the leg.

## How to book

You book Punto Appoggio Alpe Cavaione directly with the hut. HutScanner is a planning tool and does not take bookings or hold beds.

[Open the hut's booking page](http://www.caivarallo.it/rifugi_cai_varallo/punto_appoggio_alpe_cavaione.php)

[Plan a route from this hut](/app?region=valais-zermatt&hut=hut_osm_node_2214726607)

[See the whole Valais / Zermatt network](/regions/valais-zermatt/)

## About Valais / Zermatt

The Valais around Zermatt and the Monte Rosa massif holds some of the highest huts in the Alps, spanning the Swiss and Italian sides of the watershed. Swiss huts book through the shared Alpenverein system with live traffic-light availability; the Italian rifugi on the Monte Rosa side mostly book through their own pages or by phone. Many routes here cross glaciated terrain, so check the approach for each hut before you rely on a walking time.

Guides for this region: [Where alpine huts still have space in high summer](/guides/where-alpine-huts-still-have-space/) · [Using HutScanner with ChatGPT, Claude and other AI assistants](/guides/ai-assistants-and-hutscanner/)

## Planning a route through Punto Appoggio Alpe Cavaione

Booking one hut is the easy half. The work is the chain: every night needs a bed, at a hut you can walk to from the one before, on consecutive dates, and one full night sends you back to the start. From Punto Appoggio Alpe Cavaione there are 2 onward huts within a day's walk, listed above, inside a Valais / Zermatt network of 107 huts. HutScanner searches that network for a sequence that works on your dates, rather than leaving you to try the huts one at a time.

Punto Appoggio Alpe Cavaione books online but publishes no calendar HutScanner can read, so a route through it is planned around the 45 huts in Valais / Zermatt that do publish one, and this night is confirmed with the hut itself. [Plan a multi-night route from Punto Appoggio Alpe Cavaione](/app?region=valais-zermatt&hut=hut_osm_node_2214726607).

If you plan trips through ChatGPT or Claude, they can run this same search for you without opening the app, over the regions HutScanner has reviewed by hand. How that works is described in [using HutScanner with AI assistants](/guides/ai-assistants-and-hutscanner/), and the endpoint is documented in the [OpenAPI spec](/api/openapi.json).

## Something wrong on this page?

If a detail here is out of date or wrong - the phone number, the bed count, whether the hut is open - tell us and we will correct it. Wardens and hut associations can also ask for anything to be changed or removed: see [the page for hut wardens](/wardens/).

[Report incorrect information](mailto:hi@hutscanner.com?subject=Hut%20correction%3A%20Punto%20Appoggio%20Alpe%20Cavaione%20(punto-appoggio-alpe-cavaione))