Bagni di Lusnizza - Cima Alta (Due Pizzi)

Access to the starting point:
After crossing the Rateče or Predel border crossing, drive to Trbiz / Tarvisio, then continue along the old road to Udine. Follow this road to Lužnice / Bagni di Lusnizza. When you see a church on the left side of the road, take a sharp left turn, almost 180 degrees, into the town. Follow the road through the village and follow the signs for the Museo della Foresta. When the last houses in the village are finished, you will see an asphalted parking lot on the right-hand side of the road. You can park here or continue driving and then cross the motorway via the underpass. Just after the underpass, turn left and park in a suitable place on the roadside.

Path description:
From the starting point, continue along the narrow road parallel to the motorway. When you see the turn-off and the signs for the La Foresta rest area on the motorway, continue along the road for a few dozen metres and then you will see cart track on the right, which climbs gently into the woods.
Take the aforementioned cart track and shortly after the start of cart track you will see an old signpost along the way with markers for mountain pasture Malga Granuda and Due Pizzi. Follow cart track to a nearby crossroads where there are also signposts.
Continue left on the worse cart track past the wildlife feeding station, where you are also directed by the signs for mountain pasture Malga Granuda and Due Pizzi. On the right, the path leads to the Sella Bieliga saddle.
The slightly overgrown cart track leads through the woods to a clearing and the Rio Granuda Piccolo stream where another cart track joins from the left. Continue right for a short distance on the less and less visible cart track, then take a hard left and cross the stream. After crossing the stream, the path leads into the forest and then eastwards. The path climbs steeply and is damaged in some parts by avalanches and fallen trees. A path marked with orange dots then branches off to the right, and we continue straight ahead, continuing to cross the slopes to the east. From this crossroads, we cross the slopes for about 15 minutes and then the path turns sharply to the right. We then continue to climb for a long time in switchbacks mostly through the forest, occasionally crossing some quite overgrown clearings. The path is then rejoined from the right, marked with orange dots. The poorly trodden path continues to climb through the forest all the time and so offers no view. Just before mountain pasture Malga Granuda, we reach a marked crossroads where the path to the right branches off towards the Forcella Cuel Tarond notch.
We continue straight on the 604 route and, mostly in a gentle descent, soon reach the mountain pasture Malga Granuda.
At mountain pasture we continue past a shepherd's hut and descend cart track to the first left turn where there is a crossroads. At the bend, leave cart track and head straight onto the footpath. From the crossroads, first walk briefly through a belt of deciduous woodland and then the path changes to steeper slopes covered with dwarf pines and larch trees. The relatively steep path then leads to a marked crossroads.
We continue to the left towards Due Pizzi (Two Spires), and a slightly more difficult path joins us from the right via the Forcella Cuel Tarond.
From the crossroads, the path becomes steeper, so you have to use your hands to help you up. Later, the steepness eases and the path leads to the scree below the precipitous ridge of Monte Gosadon. Here the path turns left and crosses the aforementioned scree. On the other side of the scree, the path climbs steeply again and then crosses a short ravine where, due to the sand on the path, some caution is also needed. The slope then becomes more vegetated again with dwarf pines and then climbs towards the saddle between the peaks Cima Alta) and Monte Gosadon. Just below the saddle, the path also leads to a crossroads where a more difficult path branches off to the right towards the summit of Monte Gosadon.
At the crossroads we continue left and then climb through dwarf pines. On a short part of the route we also have a view to the south where Montage is clearly visible. Soon we are back at the crossroads where the path from the Zajzera and Dunja valleys joins us from the right.
Continue left again and then climb for some time through the dwarf pines on the western slopes of the summit of Cima Alta. Higher up, the dwarf pines ends and there is only a short climb up the lookout slope to the lookout peak.

On the way: Malga Granuda (1501m)

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