This is the stretch of the Alta Via delle Cinque Terre between Il Termine and the Crocettola saddle: 1.9 kilometres and only 66 metres of ascent, about fifty minutes according to the National Park. It can also be ridden by bike.
After crossing provincial road 38, a little further south you take a little-used path on the right that climbs at once into dense woodland. It then becomes a dirt track, level on the last stretch, up to the Crocettola saddle.
There the Alta Via joins the tarmac road to Bardellone, outside the Park. On the left, instead, trail 591C starts: a steep descent to the Colla di Gritta, the way to reach trail 591 towards the Mesco without walking the long tarmac stretch of provincial road 38.