Piano Fiscalino / Fischleinboden - Monte Paterno (Ferrata De Luca-Innerkofler)

Access to the starting point:
From Ljubljana through the Caravan Tunnel to Spittal. Continue to Lienz, where you will reach a roundabout and continue towards Sillian and Itali. On the Italian side of the border, you quickly reach San Candido, where you turn left towards the tourist town of Sesto / Sexten. Just after Sesto, you reach San Giuseppe / Moss, where the signs for Val Fiscalina / Fischleintal point you to the right. Continue along the ascending road and follow it to a large pay parking area.

The free parking lot is about 2 km further down, at the bottom station of the circular cable car "Alta Pusteria".

Path description:
From the parking lot, continue along the main road for a few dozen metres and, just before the Dolomitenhof Hotel, turn right onto a narrow road that is closed to traffic. The road, still asphalted at first, soon becomes a dirt road. Later, turn left off the road onto a wide footpath that leads through a valley with views ahead. The hut Talschlusshütte / Rifugio Fondo Valle is soon reached along a sloping path.
At the hut, continue to the right, following the signs "Rif. Tre Cime" and "Rif. Comici". After a few minutes' walk along a wide path, you will reach the marked crossroads again. At the crossroads with a magnificent view of the north face of the Einserkofel / Cima Una (2698m), turn right onto path 102, where you will be directed by the signs for hut Rifugio Locatelli / Drei Zinnen Hütte, and to the left the path leads to hut Rifugio Comici
Further on, the trail starts to climb a little steeper on the right side of the Alteinsteinertal / Valle Sasso Vecchio valley and mostly follows the dwarf pines. The path then approaches the stream a few times and the view towards Monte Paterno begins to open up. As we approach the waterfall of the Altensteiner Bach stream, the path turns slightly right and starts to climb below the slopes of the peaks of Punta Slawina Lunga / Langlahn spitze (2770m) and Sasso Vecchio / Altsteinspitze (2909m). The path leaves the dwarf pines and climbs to the north-west. Later, when the path leads to flatter grassy slopes, the path turns left and leads past the Laghi dei Piani lakes to the Locatelli hut.

From the hut, continue slightly to the left and start to climb the northern ridge of Monte Paterna. Soon we enter a tunnel dating back to the First World War. You will need a torch to climb through the tunnel, which is more than 500 metres long. Occasionally, the windows of the tunnel will also give you a wonderful view of the Trem Cinam and the Laghi dei Piani lakes. From the tunnel we will then reach the eastern slopes of the mountain and soon enter the climbing part of the route. The route climbs steeply up to the right at first, then turns left and follows a well-protected path up to the Forcella del Camoscio. At the notch, where our route joins the other two, bear right. Use the ropes to climb over the almost vertical wall. This part of the route is short but demanding and it is therefore highly recommended to use self-belaying equipment. The route then becomes less difficult and, via some beautiful passages along the top slope of the mountain, you soon reach a very scenic summit.

On the way: Dolomitenhof (1454m), Rifugio Fondo Valle / Talschlußhütte (1548m), Rifugio Locatelli (2405m), Forcella del Camoscio (2650m)

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