Fiames - Col Rosa (Via Ferrata Ettore Bovero)

Access to the starting point:
Via Border crossing Rateče, take the road to Trbiž / Tarvisio, where you take the motorway towards Udine. Leave the motorway at the exit for Tolmezzo and follow the road to the above-mentioned place. From Tolmezzo, continue in the direction of Ampezzo and the Passo della Mauria mountain pass. The road then begins to descend and leads into the Cadore valley, where you continue to the right (Belluno and Cortina d'Ampezzo on the left) in the direction of Auronzo. After a few more kilometres, we reach the next major crossroads, where we turn right towards Misurina (left Tre Croci Pass). From here, we follow the road down to a major crossroads, where we turn left towards Cortina d'Ampezzo (right Austria). A few kilometres before Cortina d'Ampezzo, we then park in a large parking lot next to the Hotel Fiames. The parking lot is on the right hand side of the road and the stadium is on the left hand side.

Path description:
From the parking lot at the Hotel Fiames, continue along the main road or the path along the Boite river towards Cortina d'Ampezzo. After a few hundred metres, turn right over the bridge to Camp Olympia. Here, signs point you to the right onto route 408, which then leads you along a dirt track beside the bivouac. The path opens up a few views of the nearby Punta Fiammes and the Boite valley, before descending gently to a marked crossroads.
At the crossroads, leave the wide dirt track and turn left, following the signs "Forcella Posporcora, Ferrata E. Bovero". Here the path begins to climb through the forest and after less than an hour's walk leads to the Posporcora saddle.
At the crossroads on the saddle, continue to the right, following the signs "Via Ferrata E. Bovero". Here we start to climb steeply under the south-western walls of the Col Rosa peak and the views towards Tofana start to get better and better. The route then becomes more challenging and there is some easy scrambling on the unprotected slope. Along the way you will also see some military tunnels from the First World War. Higher up, we then enter the sheltered part of the trail, which is short but relatively challenging. A few times you climb almost vertically along a steel track and then you reach the slightly less steep slopes below the summit. In the last part there is a short climb with the help of a few scrambles, and then an easier path joins from the left. Continue to the right and there is only a short climb to the top.
Descend along the easier path that leads along the northern slopes of the mountain.

On the way: Olympia (1290m), Forcella Posporcora (1720m)

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