Selva / Wolkenstein Vallunga - Piz de Puez / Puezspitz

Access to starting point:
A) Access from Gorenjska: Through the Karawanks Tunnel, we drive to Austria, and then we continue driving towards Spittal and further towards Lienz (a little after Spittal the motorway ends). Further, we drive on a relatively nice and wide road through the Drava Valley, which brings us to Italy. The road further leads past places Dobbiaco / Toblach, Brunico / Bruneck, Brixen / Bressanone, to the town Chiusa / Klausen, where we turn left towards Val Gardena. Past Ortisei / St. Ulrich and St. Christina we drive to the village Selva di Gardena / Wolkenstein. In the village we turn left and after a kilometer we drive to the parking lot in front of the valley Vallunga / Langental (parking fee).
B) From the Primorska side: From Nova Gorica, we drive to Italy and further on the motorway to Portogruaro, where at the motorway junction we turn in the direction of Belluno. We follow the motorway to its end (we don't turn in the direction towards Belluno), and then we continue driving towards Cortina d'Ampezzo. When we arrive in Cortina d'Ampezzo, we follow the signs for the alpine pass Passo Falzarego. On the pass Passo Falzarego (2105 m) we turn right towards the neighbouring pass Passo Valparola (2192 m), from there we descend into the valley Val Badia. Here we turn left and through Corvara over the Gardena pass we descend to Selva di Gardena / Wolkenstein. In the village we turn right and after a kilometer we get to the parking lot in front of the valley Vallunga / Langental (parking fee).

Route description:
We start walking at the big wooden fence at the beginning of the valley Vallunga / Langental. The path through the valley alternates between forest and meadows only slightly ascending, so we can observe the vertical walls of the plateau Stevia and Puez on one side and the plateau Chedul on the other side. We stick to path number 14. After a good half hour we come to a junction, where we continue straight through the valley (left variant to the hut Puez / Puez hutte / Riffugio Puez). We cross an extensive mountain pasture (water). The path narrows, turns right into the end of the valley and becomes a little steeper. We ascend alongside the stream in a scree-filled gully. Left across the slope falls the Puez waterfall. After the narrowing at the junction, where the stream rises, we continue left (path number 14) in the direction of the hut Puez (water). The path rises steeply onto extensive grassy slopes under the walls, under which on a again more level path we cross to the left. Follows a steep ascent to the hut Puez, which stands on an extensive plateau (water). To here we needed less than two hours.
From the hut we continue on path number 14 towards the summit. In zigzags we ascend over the grassy slope onto the rocky ridge. The path crosses above the mountain pasture Puez, below the ridge of the peak Col du Puez (2725 m), to the depression (water), where we ascend without difficulty onto the wide saddle between the main and eastern summit. We continue left (right unmarked path to Col de Puez (2725 m)) and first over the grassy, then scree-covered slope we steeply ascend into the wide gully. The steepness does not ease all the way to the smaller saddle, where the path turns left. In a few minutes we are on the summit Pic Puez / Puezspitze (2913 m).

Along the route: parkirišče Vallunga (1608m), planina Vallunga (1803m), razcep nad slapom Puez (2088m), koča Puez (2475m), sedlo med Col de Puez in Pic du Puez (2614m), Pic Puez (2913m)

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