Plockenpass - Creta di Collinetta / Cellon (Via ferrata Steinberger Weg)

Access to the starting point:
From Trbiz/Tarvisio, take the motorway to Udine/Vidmo. Leave the motorway at Carnico and first follow signs for Tolmezzo, then signs for Austria and the Pso di Croce Carnico Pass / Plockenpass. On the Italian side of the pass, park in a large parking lot.

Path description:
At the parking lot, take the narrow road marked Cellon (route 146). After a few dozen metres, you will reach a junction where you turn right onto a military causeway and then climb through sparse woodland and meadows beneath the steep slopes of Cellon mountain. The military mulatier turns into a track and soon you reach a crossroads where you leave the path towards the Marinelli hut and head uphill to the right. Here the path begins to climb a little steeper over the grassy slopes and then leads to a crossroads. Bear right after the "Via ferrata Steinberger Weg" signs. The wide path then crosses the precipitous slopes of the mountain to the east and also leads through a tunnel. The tunnel is short, so a torch is not strictly necessary. Later, the slope becomes less steep and the path turns left uphill. After a short climb through the rare dwarf pines, we soon reach the crossroads again. We continue to the right, following the signs "Via ferrata Steinberger Weg", and to the left the extremely difficult "Via ferrata senza confini". This trail has a difficulty level of D and is overhilly in some parts, and a torch is essential due to the steep climbs through the tunnel.

The right-hand path, however, initially climbs over scree and leads to slightly more grassy slopes on the eastern side of the mountain. Here you will also have a good view of the Plockenpass. The path then descends gently and leads to the entrance to the climbing section of the route.

At the start of the climbing section, the path climbs steeply up a partly rocky and partly grassy slope. After a steep ascent, the path turns left and crosses steep slopes along a small rock. There is a short descent with the aid of scrambles into a gully and then a climb up the gully. The path along the gully is mostly unprotected and therefore a little more caution is needed. The path later retreats to the left side of the ravine and starts to climb steeply again along the steel cable. This path leads us to a small saddle where the other two paths on the mountain join from the left. Here you will also see many remains from the First World War along the way. Then it's just a climb up the slightly less steep slope of the mountain to the summit.

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