Vette Vette
Mount Confinale
Introduction
This tour takes place in one of the most remote areas of the Stelvio National Park and allow the hickers to reach a beautiful lookout over the Ortler-Cevedale group, outside of the big touristic fluxs which often "clog" nearby places, such as the Valley of Zebrù or Cedec Valley. The small side chain, which includes the Mount Confinale, precisely divides the two valleys, and with its accesswhich is rather long and wild, offers a pristine environment. The Bivouac, built on the saddle that divides the Top of Mount Confinale from the Top Manzina, at an altitude of 3166 meters, is dedicated to Gianpaolo Del Piero who fell in 1972 on the eastern ridge of Punta Kennedy (Group of Mount Disgrazia), and is an excellent point of support that allows you to break the journey in two days with a possible return through the whole chain, which bypasses the "Forni" tops, on the slopes coming from thePass Zebrù , and the Pizzini hut.
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Inner Beltovo top
Introduction
Wonderful Belvedere on the Ortler group Ortler, the Beltovo top has the advantage of having a avery easy hiking access, so you can reach an altitude of more than 3300 meters with a walk without any difficulty. It is this high altitude and its position orthogonal to the central node of the group that make it as one of the most respected and popular viewpoints in the region. The large top, during the summer season, hosts dozens of hikers very often. This report discusses the ascent from the slope Solda passing through the refuge city of Milan (Schaubach-hut). Reaching the Madritsch Pass from the Martell is described in this report .
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Croda of Cengles
Description
From the arrival station of the chairlift takes immediately on left a trail that goes up a short slope and heads straight for the Valley of Zay. The trail stays on the right side (direction) of debris, skirting the base of Top Vertana. After a ten minute walk away, leave the path that continues on the high side of this valley and has been declared dangerous due to numerous landslides from the peaks above. We must then first go left and continue downhill until you reach the center of the valley and a beautiful wooden bridge for crossing the torrent. Beyond the river the trail continues to your left to climb the left side (looking at) of the valley with numerous switchbacks trails. On top of a step in front, you see the refuge which is then reached with a crossing horizontal and then with a quick hard pull (about 1.30 hours to reach the Refuge Serristori).
Immediately behind the hut a path crosses a moraine (reports) and, left to right, a branch that leads to the Great angel, goes to reassemble a rounded off at whose summit you are on a short shelf which is a prelude directed to the glen to the Zay Pass which is just opposite. You follow the plan of flat stones, large rocks and then slip into the valley in large blocks of stone (follow the signs!)This course is sometimes uncomfortable for the need to jump from one rock to another,just keep mainly on the left. After this exercise of equilibrium a moraine dam is reached. Climb on it in tight bends and more alive with a slope of dark soil until you reaches a plateau occupied by a milky glacial lake (altitude m. 2886). Bypass the bank to its left and, still walking on large blocks, approach the looming wall of Croda Tschengls, whose extreme left sides a steep canyon that culminates in a range which divides the Croda from a castle rock (m 3181), northern foothills of the ridge, to the west, then goes to culminate with the two peaks of Dossobello. The gully is climbed on the first track on your right (very steep!). About half of it you can see some metal ropes who drive on an open wire and highly exposed wall (this direct way to Croda is for very experts only, much exposed and difficult!) Then the track runs out against a vertical black wall near a junction marked by a metal sign. To the right starts another via ferrata (the "classical", less difficult than the previous one), while the normal route goes left across the channel and then back to the fork with toilsome journey (very steep!) And difficult but safe thanks the alerts.
From the saddle, turn right where it appears the final part of the climb and the summit crowned by classic large white cross so common on the summits of South Tyrol. The ridge is followed taking fully care of signs. Short sections are not difficult to help in the most difficult, the slope is kept alive up to the spacious summit, being the most northerly of this undergroup of the secondary ridge Angel - Vertana, dramatically and directly overlooking the Valle Venosta (Vinschgau) which is dominated for a large portion. In the distance you can see the northernmost peaks of the Ötztal Alps among which the Weisskugel, a very interesting view of the surrounding peaks of the Great Angel and Top Vertana as well as the great triad Grand Zebrù - Zebrù - Ortler with the head of the Solda Valley that dominates in the west. Further back, beautiful views of the Bernina group, while to the south, behind the great Vedretta Lasa is the beautiful North side of the Presanella.
The return takes place via the same route.
Author
- Check the page of Giovanni Consigli
Bibliography
- Gino Buscaini: Ortles Cevedale - Guida dei monti d'Italia CAI-TCI Club Alpino Italiano, 1984
Cartography
- Ortles-Cevedale 1:25.000 - foglio 08 Editrice Tabacco - Udine, 2006
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Mount Serla
Introduction
Due to its isolated position in the center of high Pustertal, Mount Serla enjoy reputation as a famous viewpoint on the Valley itself and on the dolomitic crown that borders it from North to South. Very interesting in particular the view of the chain of the Rocca di Baranci, the Peak of Vallandro and in the direction of Misurina's Dolomites, and North towards the Pusterese Alps as well. We are talking about a long and agreable walk allowing to accomplish a ring descending then to the beautiful Lake of Dobbiaco.
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Mount Cavallaccio
Introduction
Mount Cavallaccio is an interesting viewing point at the turn of the Valley of Trafoi, the swiss Valley of Tubre (Taufers) and the high Valle Venosta (Vinschgau). It is located exactly on the Swiss-Italian border and is an important orographic node along the chain from the Stelvio Pass (Stilfser Joch) degrading to the Venosta Valley South to North oriented and with several peaks at an altitude of between 2800 and 3000 meters, such as Rose Peak and Piz Minschuns.
The hike to reach this peak is very interesting for the historical setting, with some findings of the First World War as well as rememberings of smuggling including, on the very top, a former barracks of the Financtial Police now disused, testimony of the period between the end of the Second World War and the eighties, when this police was fighting with the smugglers exercising their traffic between Italy and Switzerland, often engaging real chases with them.
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Mount Roisetta
Introduction
Second in height only to the Grand Tournalin between the peaks of the Ayas valley, "The Roisettaz" (as it is locally called) is, for hikers, a place of great interest. It is a very long walk but no major difficulties and those who reach its summit are rewarded with a first-class panarama. It is in the far north of the dividing long chain Ayas-Valtournenche and, in particular, dominates the long plateau of debris that looks like a huge balcony from which eastern edge and vertical rock walls dominate the Walloon Cortoz through which runs the access trail the Colle superiore delle Cime Bianche. The ascent route itself is unusual, enlivened by the passage near the beautiful Green Lake and well marked. The crossing of the great plateau debris is definitely an interesting experience also from the geomorphological point of view.
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Great Angel
Introduction
The Great Angel is the second highest top in altitude in the subgroup Vertana / Angel of Ortles-Cevedale. The northern chain that divides the Vinschgau from the Solda valley is largely wilderness, the panoramic view from this peak reveals a world of rocks and ice still relatively little known and visited. It is a very elegant and distinctive peak, easily recognizable by the curious outstanding glacier that crowns its regular round shape. It can be reached without great difficulty and, above all, without having to walk on glaciers. The path is marked by red and yellow stripes until the top. As mentioned, it is a privileged viewpoint and is reached by a large number of hikers. Particularly striking is the view of the nearby Top Vertana and on the whole subgroup of the same name with the beautiful peaks over three thousand meters among which also stands the Croda of Cengles.
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Northern Grigna - way of the caminetto
Introduction
Another classic itinerary among the numerous options available to the hiker who wants to reach Refuge Brioschi on top of Grignone. This route, a little less popular than others of the North-West versant has a particular fascination for its sharpness, especially in the terminal part, and is certainly less monotonous of the Way Guzzi, that less experienced hikers departing from Refuge Bietti usually Bietti choose.
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Tour of the three tops of Lavaredo
Introduction
This tour is perhaps the most "classic" among those effected by the usual frequenters of the Dolomites. It takes place in a spectacular landscape and allows you to "touch" the impressive Morth walls of the Lavaredo Peaks, full of mountaineering history with some of the most celebrated and difficult climbing routes plotted by climbers enrolled in the golden history of climbing. Just remember the epic climbs of Emilio Comici on the North of Cima Grande and those of Riccardo Cassin on Cima West in the '30s, the era of the then newly "invented" sixth grade, when Emilio Solleder, with his ascent to the north-western face of the Civetta, gave the start to a fruitful season of victories increasingly difficult and challenging.
The route proposed here departs from the customary signallized path (which also touches the Refuge Locatelli) to follow its own path trails at the base of the great northern walls. The immense and scree slope that forms the basis of these can be a challenging course, if still covered with snow as often happens early in the season. Just still a little warning not to take any risk.
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Bec de Nannaz
Descrizione
To reach the Col Nannaz it is also available an alternative itinerary.
The "normal" one is starting of from Saint-Jacques and follow the trail marked with the number 4A, which goes into the valley of Nannaz crossing at some points the road leading up to the Grand Tournalin refuge. Just past the village church, with a fountain, then turn left (signs) to cross the Evançon immediately right and taking the trail that rises through meadows, passes a farm and then forwards in the woods, heading towards the entrance of the valley and reaches in about twenty minutes a sloping open space crossed by a torrent and where a mountain pasture is built(altitude m. 1871). Immediately after, taking the left, enter the wood where the path is becoming steeper. It crosses twice the road, you make some steep turns near the torrent that falls from the upper plateau where the lower Nannaz pastures are, and it goes to flow in a shelf cut by the meadow path diagonally left with a steady climb up to cross the Channel Cortoz (dry during summer of 2010). Leaving the deviation of route 5, which proceeds along the same channel, there rises a little up to the shelf where there is lower Alpe Nannaz (altitude 2034 m.).
Again on the road, follow it to the left (on the right it goes to the upper Alp of Nannaz), pass close to two huts and a large boulder and then, near a curve, (signals) go again right, towards the inside of the Valley, and you'll find yourself back on track. Follows a gentle slope or flat stretch between the last trees with rhododendrons and blueberry plants. Hence the Becca di Nannaz rises in front, and daring high with its long north ridge to the right and a band of whitish rocks below the summit.
Proceed until you cross the creek and head off to a great bump in the middle of the valley above which there are lowerpastures of Alpe Tournalin (altitude 2234). Without reaching it (the trail climbs steeply with curves) from left to right again, gain the road once again (it arrives from the opposite versant of the valloon). The road must be followed for a short distance and a few turns and then you leave it at a new trail that climbs to the right.
This time, the road continues along the valley being floor first, then with a very wide itinerary regains the upper Tournalin pastures. The path, however, remains on the left side of the river basin over several humps and rocky grasslands and then, always to the right, forwards in a valley that, after a short ascent up to the step on which there are some lapels. At the top of the step is in view of the Grand Lodge Tournalin (m.2535). It is reached by a last climb steeper pastures and rocks up to the building which is very modern and cozy. This is where the dirt road and you should take a break.
To get to the Hill of Nannaz it looks back to the road about 250 meters up to a clear path that branches off to the right and starts to climb between the rocks and grass. It has everything in front of the amphitheater of the Valley of Nannaz terminal (the hill is hidden by a large sloping rock). The trail, well marked, with a constant curvature goes from right to left towards the narrow corridor leading to the hill and gaining the upper slopes after having faced a rocky prominence on the staircase path. Immediately beyond this step is more alive and continues uphill for a few openings up to rejoin the path n. 3 coming from the Hill Vascotchaz (see link to the version above). From here, a few meters left to right, a small body of water, you reach the hill Nannaz (d. 2773).
From the hill (looking towards Valtournenche) immediately left turns and faces the crest early enough and not very comfortable highlighted path on which rise steep. In front there are two rocky spurs, and, further back, you see the end of the peak Castle. The first spur trail on the slope is around Ayas, following a short climb to the ridge edge that easily goes up to a rock band rather than crumbly. Without the forced route climb, taking advantage of good footholds themselves taking care of the small scale and choosing the most solid. It continues without further problems at the crest and behind the scene begins to widen the Matterhorn and the Dent Blanche and encountering herds of wild goats that have here an ideal habitat.
The second outcrop is roesent as a large cone resting on the base, left, on a strip of whitish rocks. The trace of sentgiero, most evident here, this time leaning around the side Valtournenche. so we find ourselves in an area of debris end, a kind of stony valley bordered by a small gendarme on the left and right by a very weird rocky pinnacle which rises behind the line at the summit. Leave the pinnacle to the right and the tip end of the rocks that are wrapped at the base by a wide band of pale, almost whitish. You can find it again following the tracks, then go back with a couple of turns to stand at the top level of the band on his extreme left. On the right an obvious ledge wide enough driving along the top edge of the band: with caution and follow it to its end you have to get around a rock edge to yellowish obliged to lean on and use your hands to keep the same roughness of the rock ' balance. Beyond this step, which is the most difficult of the road, pointing to comeback another rocky valley near the summit ridge above that achieved with ease. Turn right and horizontally, on the path, just very low on the ridge, slope Ayas, you go to a few meters to the summit is surmounted by a cross made of metal.
The return is along the same route in reverse.
Autore
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Bibliografia
- Marco Soggetto: Le vette della Val d'Ayas L'Escursionista Editore, 2008
Cartografia
- 8 - Monte Rosa Alte valli d'Ayas e del Lys, 1:25.000, L'Escursionista Editore, 2009
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