| IgorZlodej15. 11. 2011 17:47:29 |
From Pontebba (Tablja) I drive through Studeno Basso about 10 km towards Lonice saddle (Cason di Lanza), then between the abandoned hamlet Carbonaris and Rio Secco pasture I park by the road and go right on the forest road closed to public traffic. Gotta be careful, because left and right there are forest tracks, gotta stick to the road where there are cairns here and there. When the road ends, a nice path continues, marked with orange dots and freshly cleared. It takes me to a forest clearing west of La Busale. I continue a bit uphill, then on the north side of La Busale briefly level, almost no more orange dots, scrub is cleared but many years ago. When the path starts descending I spot on the left a very modest little path that takes me a bit up over some kind of scree and right under the walls. I reach a choked gully up which I climb to the top (in between I build some cairns). There I again run into cleared paths, one goes right (Treghet), one down towards path 432, I go left and it soon takes me to an indistinct saddle, hunting path splits into two prongs, one left, one right, I pick the right one which over scree takes me to the start of long grassy slopes. I spot numerous chamois, really plenty here, which I saw years ago when wandering around here. Up the not too steep grasses I leisurely climb to the extremely panoramic summit. Right behind me the everywhere visible mountain Creta di Aip (Veliki Koritnik-Trogkofel), Western Julians, most Carnics, Dolomites and part of High Tauern are like on the palm. Of course no hurry, so I sit and enjoy the views. Then I decide for descent via western ridge towards lower part of Aip valley. I eyed it several times from Creta di Aip (Veliki Koritnik). Of course the easiest would be to descend to bivouac Ernesto Lomasti and the marked path. But the western ridge tempts me. Pathless terrain is not difficult, in between some remains of caverns and stone defensive walls, and barbed wire. Lower my only worry is the scrub plantation at the ridge end, but later I skillfully avoid it by heading right, where over some col I descend straight to the valley. That a path once ran here I notice on the occasionally cleared scrub. Then just a walk across meadows to the already many times hiked path 440 down which I descend to Caserute pasture and by road past Rio Secco pasture to the start. Wonderful autumn tour. Alessio, biggest thanks for the great idea.
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