Plockenpass - Pic Chiadin

Access to the starting point:
From Trbiž / Tarvisio, take the motorway to Udine. Leave the motorway at the exit for Tolmezzo. Follow the signs for Austria and the Passo di Croce Carnico / 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 Rifuggio Marinelli (route 146). After a few dozen metres, you will reach a crossroads where you turn right onto a military mulatier, which you then follow up through sparse woodland and meadows below the steep slopes of mountain Creta di Collinetta (2238m). The military mulatier becomes a track and soon you will reach a crossroads where the path to the top of the mountain branches off to the right.

We continue on the left path, which crosses the grassy slopes in a slight ascent and leads us to a small plain. An unmarked trail from mountain pasture Collinetta di Sotto joins us from the left, and just after this we reach a marked crossroads where the trail to Cresta Verde (2150m) branches off to the right. Continue along the 146 towards the Marinelli hut, which is still less than two hours away. Here the trail becomes a bit steeper and climbs through lightly overgrown bushes and tall grass. Once out of the scrub, the path becomes more level and a path branches off to the right to Creta di Collina (2659m).

Here, crossing quite steep slopes, we start to descend and some fixed safety gear is helpful. A slightly more challenging descent through a natural window and crossing steep slopes covered with nettles follows, leading to a junction.

The right-hand path leads to Cima di Mezzo (2713m), and we continue on the left-hand path towards the hut. The path climbs again through meadows and just before the hut we join a dirt track (route 148). Here we will also see the Laghetto di Plotta lake along the way. The cart track then ends shortly and it is only a few minutes' climb to the hut.

At the hut, head north-west, following the Monte Coglians markers, and start climbing over slightly steeper grassy slopes. The path quickly leads to an unmarked crossroads where the Sentiero Spinotti path branches off to the left towards the Lambertenghi-Romanin hut. Our route here turns right and climbs up to a grassy ridge. The path then passes slightly left of the ridge again and rejoins it below the summit of Pic Chiadin. The summit is just a few metres off the path.

On the way: Laghetto di Plotta (1970m), Rifugio Marinelli (2122m)

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