Carbonin - Knollkopf / Col Rotondo dei Canope

Access to the starting point:
Access from Gorenjska: Take the Border crossing Rateče road to Trbiž / Tarvisio, where you take the motorway towards Udine. Leave the motorway at the exit for Tolmezzo and follow the road to the above-mentioned place. From Tolmezzo, continue in the direction of Ampezzo and the Passo della Mauria mountain pass. The road then begins to descend and leads into the Cadore valley, where you continue to the right (Belluno and Cortina d'Ampezzo on the left) in the direction of Auronzo. After a few more kilometres, you reach the next major crossroads, where you turn right towards Misurina (left Tre Croci Pass). From here, you follow the road downhill to a major crossroads (right Dobbiaco and Austria, left Cortina d'Ampezzo). From the crossroads, you continue for a few more 100 metres towards Cortina d'Ampezzo, and then you park in a small parking lot on the right-hand side of the road.

From the Primorska side: Take the motorway that leads via Border crossing Sežana to Trieste. Continue on the Italian motorway towards Padua, but only as far as the motorway junction, where you continue towards Veneto and Belluno. Near Belluno the motorway ends and we continue towards Cortina d'Ampezzo and Auronzo. As the road enters the Cadore valley, we come to a large junction where the road towards Cortina d'Ampezzo goes left and the road towards Auronzo goes right. Here we continue to the right towards Auronzo. Continue as described above.

Path description:
From the parking lot, turn right onto the dirt road, where you will be directed by signs for "Dürrensteinhütte / Rif. Vallandro". After a short climb, you will quickly reach a gate where you enter the Fanes Sennes Prags Nature Park. Continue for some time along the road, which alternates between macadam and asphalt. From the road, which mostly passes through the forest, we have some nice views of the Cristallo mountain group. The road then leads to a crossroads, where signs direct you to the right onto a footpath.
The footpath then climbs mostly through the forest and later crosses the road a few times. The relatively gentle path leads us in the last part of the way towards the cottage to grassy slopes from which we get even better views of the surrounding peaks. From the footpath we briefly rejoin the road, and then there is a short steeper climb to the hut.
From the hut, continue along the mountain road, which runs north-westwards and gently descends. When you reach a crossroads, continue right over a bridge and then leave the road shortly afterwards.
From the road, bear left downhill and cross the grassy valley to the west. The path is not very visible at this point, but this does not cause any major problems. It is important to cross the valley and climb the ridge on the other side of the valley, where the track is again clearly visible.
On the ridge, continue to the left and the path quickly leads to the foothill. Continue along the ridge and start to descend slightly. The path here runs southwards and takes you mostly through dwarf pines. The path then crosses the slightly steeper western slopes of the mountain, and then starts to climb again. The path through the dwarf pines then soon leads to the summit, which offers magnificent views of the Cristallo mountain group, the summit of Croda Rossa and the Picco di Valandro.

On the way: Dürrensteinhütte / Rifugio Vallandro (2040m)

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