Carbonin - Strudelköpf / Monte Specie

Access to the starting point:
Access from Gorenjska: Via Border crossing Rateče drive 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. 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.

At the hut, continue eastwards following the signs for the "Heimkehrerkreuz". Above the hut, the path turns to the right and after a short climb leads to slopes covered with dwarf pines. Further on, the slopes are slightly steeper and are initially traversed to the south-east. Later, the path turns left and starts to climb slightly steeper. This path then leads from dwarf pines to grassy slopes. We continue to climb up the grassy slope for a while and then another path joins us from the left from the Vallandro hut. Here the path becomes a little wider and more sloping and soon leads to another crossroads where a path branches off to the left down into the Val Chiara valley.

At the crossroads, where there are also the remains of an old military building, continue to the right, following the "Heimkehrerkreuz" signs. Shortly afterwards, we are at the crossroads again, this time continuing left and there is only a short climb to the summit, which we can already see in front of us.

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

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