Feel the mountains

Mountaineering and climbing - a truly special fascination! A balancing act of your own strength and capabilities. Experience your limits and press forward into unknown boundaries. Set new measures and values and grow out of your limits. The Dolomites offer incredible highlights. They are known as the eldorado for all climbers and mountaineers!

The rocks of the Dolomites towers can hold the people in the most true sense in their hands, the possibilities are varied:

from easy climbing paths like on the Sas Rigais (3.025 m), to one of the Odle towers, on the Piccola Cir (2.592 m) or the ferrata Oskar Schuster at Sassopiatto (2958 m), up to more difficult climbing paths on the Pisciadú or the Mesole in the Sella group, as well as alpine tours of different difficulty, e.g. on the Fermeda, the Sella or the Sasso Lungo (3.181 m). The Val Gardena is a true hiking and climbing El Dorado.

Climbing: our suggestions

The Pössnecker-Route Piz Sella, 2941 m (Sella-Group) Difficulty: extremely difficult Starting point: Passo Sella, 2.240 m Point of support: Passo Sella Refuge, 2.183 m Difference in height: ascent: approx. 700 m, descent: approx. 700 m Duration: ascent: Passo Sella-Piz Selva, about 3 ½ hours descent: Piz Selva-Piz Gralba-Val Lasties-Passo Sella, about 4 hours climbing tour: about 2 ½ hours Indication: This is one of the oldest routes in the Dolomites (1912) and is still now one of the most difficult. In late autumn the course is advised against in the early morning because of the frozen ground. Access: From Passo Sella, 2.240 m, you cross below the three Torri del Sella following a good path until arriving to a black-gray colored wall, which is very wet. Now the route brings us fastly to a big basin of rubble. Across the big terrace, 2.700 m, which surrounds the massif of the Sella, you arrive to the last part of the route. After having gone along a gorge, you reach the plateau covered with the rubble of the Sella-massif and finally the top (2.941 m). Descent: Through the summits of the Piz Gralba, 2.974 m, Piz Miara, 2.965 m, and Piz Beguz, 2.972 m, you arrive to the path nr. 677, but you remain on the path nr. 649. On the fork before the Antersass, 2.908 m, you turn right, following the path nr. 647 and crossing the Val Lasties you arrive to the road to Passo Sella, 2.240 m, which you can reach by hitchhiking or on foot. Note: This is one of the most frequented routes.		The Brigata Tridentina Franco Cavazza Refuge at Pisciadù, 2.583 m (Sellagroup) Difficulty: difficult Starting point: car park close to the station at the bottom of the material-cableway, 1.950 m, to the Franco Cavazza Refuge, between Passo Gardena and Colfosco. Point of support: Colfosco, 1.615 m Difference in height: ascent: about 600 m, descent: about 600 m Duration: ascent: car park-Franco Cavazza Refuge, about 3 hours descent: Franco Cavazza Refuge-Val Setus-car park, about 1 ½ hours climbing tour: about 2 ½ hours Indication: starting early you can climb the Cima del Pisciadù, 2.985 m. Ascent and descent starting from the refuge about 2 hours. Access: From the car park towards east to the fist steep, secured ascent. Now you reach the main tract of the route: a climbing until a rocky basin (there is the possibility to leave this route on the left side and follow a path until arriving to the refuge). Now you go on on the right side through rocks and cliffs, util arriving below the Torre Exner, 2.496 m. A hanging bridge at the end of the road is the highlight of the course. From here you reach the refuge in a few minutes. Descent: From the refuge follow the path nr. 666 to nord-west, until arriving to the fork. Now proceed along the partially equipped path, so you arrive to Val Setus (pay attention at the beginning of the summer because some tracts may be covered with snow) and so you come back to the car park. Note: This is one of the most known routes in the Dolomites.

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Feel the mountains

Climbing: our suggestions

The Pössnecker-Route

The Brigata Tridentina