Fuciade, Passo San Pellegrino - Cima Ombrettola

Access to the starting point:
Leave the motorway between Trieste and Venice at Portogruaro and follow the motorway towards Pordenone, Conegliano and Belluno, where you leave the motorway and continue through Belluno, Ponte nelle Alpi, Agordo, Falcade, towards Passo san Pellegrino. About a kilometre before reaching the pass, turn right at the sign for Baita Flora Alpina towards the mountain pasture pasture of Malga Boer (1808 m) and the cirque pasture of Fuciade. After a kilometre or so of steep road past mountain pasture, park in the marked parking lot by the bridge over the Rio Cigole. The road continues to the cottages, stables and hut of Fuciade, but a sign prohibits further driving.
It is also possible to approach on foot from the pass itself, passing the Hotel Miralago.
The other possible access is via Karawanks - Spittal - Lienz - Cortina d'Ampezzo - Falzarego - Alleghe - Falcade - Passo san Pellegrino.

Path description:
From the parking lot, continue along the sloping, initially asphalted cart track over beautiful pastures towards the foothills above the Val Cigolè, dominated by the peaks of Cima Uomo, Punta Cigolè, and Sasso di Valfredda, past idyllic cottages, to the Rifugio Fuciade hut/hotel, 1974 m (20 minutes). At the crossroads behind the hut, leave the wide mulatto track and then follow route 607 across the pastures. The comfortable, steady serpentines offer views of the distant Pale di San Martino and the nearby towers of Cima Tascia and Torre Enrica. At the top of the grassy ridge, you enter the extensive scree of Val Cirelle, over which a comfortable path leads, with many switchbacks, but under concretely vertical cliffs. At the signpost for Cima Uomo the valley continues straight ahead, but we turn sharp right and follow the comfortable serpentines over the huge scree to the Cirelle Pass (2683 m, 2½ to 3 hours from the hut). At the top of the pass, we can see the upper part of the Contrin valleys and the elegant pyramid of the Sasso Vernale (3054 m), which reigns over the slightly lower Ombretta ridge, with the broad southern face of the Marmolada behind it.
From the pass, there are two easy half-hour excursions on unmarked but clearly visible paths, to the left to the eastern summit of Cima Cadina (2885 m) and to the right to Punta Cigolè (2815 m). We can also see our destination to the right of the pyramidal Sasso Vernale.
From the pass, follow the signs for the Rifugio Contrin hut for a few metres, then take the red-dotted path 612 towards the Falier hut (marked on a rock). The path climbs and descends several times on the slopes of Punta Cigolle and Cima Ombrettola. Below the Forcela del Bachet, we cross a few snow tongues that persist late into summer and, on a crumbly, craggy, almost lunar world, we reach the crest above the Passo Ombrettola pass in a steeper ascent, 2864 m, (1 hour from the Cirelle Pass), from which we look down into the Vallon d'Ombrettola valley below the mighty walls proudly displayed by the Sasso di Valfredda, Formenton, Monte la Banca, Fop, Civetta and Pelmo .
At the pass, we leave the path and take the short cut or one of several paths to the summit, 15 minutes away, which is cloudy on this side and precipitous on the other. Even better is the access directly along the ridge from the Forcela del Bachet, which is a slightly steeper chasm, along which we look for the easiest passages, first to a few metres lower than the summit and then to the main summit.

On the way: koča Rifugio Fuciade (1974m), Prelaz Passo Cirelle (2683m), Punta Cigole (2815m), vrh Cima Cadina (2885m), Škrbina Forcela del Bachet (2736m), vrh Bachet (2800m)

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