Trofeo Angela Maurizio, cross-country ski race

The trophy is one of the historic races of the Bergamo FISI provincial circuit, which publishes results and rankings every year. The numbering lets you trace it back: twenty-seventh edition in 2020, thirtieth in 2024, thirty-second in 2026. In 2021 the Sci Club Valserina cancelled the races scheduled for 7 February; we have not found the date of edition number twenty-nine.

In 2024, on the day of the thirtieth edition, Valbrembanaweb recalled that exactly a hundred years earlier, on 17 February 1924, Oltre il Colle had hosted the Lombard and Bergamo ski championships, with cross-country, style and ski-jumping events.

Athletes start one at a time, against the clock, in classic technique. The categories are FISI's youth ones: Super Baby, that is under 8, who all receive a prize without a podium, then Baby, Cuccioli, Ragazzi and Allievi, plus Giovani/Senior. In 2024 Lecconotizie reported distances from 500 metres for the youngest to 7.5 kilometres for the oldest.

FISI's report on the 2022 edition, which counted as the provincial championship, gives the distances category by category:

For FISI Bergamo the trophy is a «historic race» of the Sci Club Valserina, the club that runs the cross-country trails on behalf of the municipalities of Oltre il Colle and Serina: so say the reports of 2020, 2022 and 2024, Lecconotizie in 2024 and the BergamoTV news in 2025. For the 2026 edition the sources do not agree: FISI writes «Sci Club Serina», La Voce delle Valli «Sciclub di Oltre il Colle».

The trail is the one the federation calls «Centro Fondo Serina», between the Colle di Zambla, the Conca dell'Alben and Valpiana di Serina; in 2022 FISI referred to it as the Gianni Carrara trail, reworked that summer. In 2021 the Region funded with 270,000 euros the artificial snowmaking of the cross-country loop, about 2.5 kilometres at Coren de l'acqua above the Conca, and of the downhill slope. It was not enough to avoid the 2025 postponement.

The Conca dell'Alben lies above the main village, about 1.2 kilometres as the crow flies from the centre: you drive up via Drago to the car parks at Pian della Palla, while from the Colle di Zambla the dirt road is a cross-country trail in winter and stays closed to cars. In 2024 the race was held on Sunday morning; the start time of each edition should be asked to the ski club.

The 1991-2020 averages of the ERA5 reanalysis for Zambla Alta, in the hamlet's page, give January minimums of about −9 °C and maximums of 1 °C, February −8 and 2 °C, March −4 and 6 °C. As of 1 October 2026 the provincial calendar for the 2026-27 season has not been published.