Plöckenpass - Creta di Collina / Kollinkofel (path 171)

Access to the starting point:
From Trbiž / Tarvisio, take the motorway to Udine. Leave the motorway at the exit for Tolmezzo. Follow the signs for Austria and the Passo di Croce Carnico / Plockenpass. On the Italian side of the pass, park in a large parking lot.

Path description:
At the parking lot, take the narrow road marked Rifuggio Marinelli (route 146). After a few dozen metres, you will reach a crossroads where you turn right onto a military mulatier, which you then follow up through sparse woodland and meadows below the steep slopes of mountain Creta di Collinetta (2238m). The military mulatier becomes a track and soon you will reach a crossroads where the path to the top of the mountain branches off to the right.

We continue on the left path, which crosses the grassy slopes in a slight ascent and leads us to a small plain. An unmarked trail from mountain pasture Collinetta di Sotto joins us from the left, and just after this we reach a marked crossroads where the trail to Cresta Verde (2150m) branches off to the right. Continue along the 146 towards the Marinelli hut, which is less than two hours away. Here the trail becomes a bit steeper and climbs through lightly overgrown bushes and tall grass. Once out of the scrub, the path becomes more level and you soon reach a marked crossroads.

Straight ahead the path leads to the Marinelli hut, and we turn right up the path 171a, which leads to the Creta di Collina summit. From the crossroads, the path climbs mostly in switchbacks up a grassy slope for some time and then slowly turns slightly to the left. As we approach the side ridge, the 171 trail from the Marinelli hut joins us from the slightly precipitous left-hand side. We continue to climb up the grassy slope, which is becoming steeper. The path then turns slightly to the right and leads to rockier terrain. Here the path becomes more difficult and is also protected by a cable car. The path then crosses the exposed slope to the right a few times and leads us close to a larger ravine. Here the path turns left and then climbs up the slope for some time. The slope is quite steep and the path is occasionally protected by a steel cable. A little higher up, the path turns right and there is a steep climb up a ravine. The path is well protected here and leads us out of the ravine onto less steep slopes, which are partly covered with grass.

The path turns left here and then climbs for a long time along the slope along the ridge to the north. Occasionally, the ridge is approached and a view opens up to the west. This route then goes all the way to a crossroads just below the Creta di Collina peak where there is also a small bivouac.

To the left is the protected path to the Creta della Chianevate summit, and we head right towards the summit of Creta di Collina. From the crossroads, we first climb up the rocky slope to the ridge, followed by a short climb along a slightly exposed and unprotected ridge to the summit, which we can already see in front of us.

The descent is easiest via the ascent route. It is also possible to descend to the eastern side, but this route is more difficult and not protected.

On the way: bivak (2650m)

We can extend the trip to the following destinations: Creta della Chianevate / Kellerspitzen (1 h)

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