Rio Bianco - Viš/Jof Fuart (Sentiero del Centenario)

Access to the starting point:
From Kranjska Gora, take the Rateče border crossing to Trbiž / Tarvisio. In Trbiz, turn left towards Bovec and follow the road to the crossroads near Lake Rabeljsko. Here, turn right towards Nevea Pass / Sella Nevea. Follow this road, which climbs for the most part, until you reach a bridge where, at a left-hand bend, the road crosses the White Water stream / Rio Bianco. On the left side of the road you will see a few small car parks.
From Bovec, drive to the Predel border crossing, from which you descend to the Italian side. Just after Lake Rabelj, you will reach a crossroads where you turn left towards the Neveje Pass / Sella Nevea. Continue as described above.

Path description:
From the signs at the beginning of the trail (before the bridge on the right side of the road), continue through the forest on the right side of the Rio Bianco stream, which will take you uphill for some time. The valley of the White Water (Italian: Riobianco) is named after the stream. The path then turns left and crosses small streams several times. Later, the path turns slightly to the right again and there is a short climb in the keys to the abandoned Brunner hut, where there is no view due to the forest. At the hut, where there is also a fork in the trail, continue straight ahead along trail 625 towards the Gorizia bivouac. The path then soon emerges from the forest and climbs along the stream through dwarf pines. Later the path turns left and leads to a crossroads. We continue on the left path towards the Gorizia bivouac, and the path branches off to the right towards the White Water notch (ital. Forca di Rio Bianco). Dwarf pines then soon ends and the path starts to climb a little steeper. When the path flattens out a little again, the inscription on the rock directs us to the left towards the bivouac, which is about 50 metres away, and to the right is a direct path towards the Krnic notch (ital. Forcella del Vallone).

From the bivouac, continue southwards and start climbing quite steeply up the rubbly slope towards the Alta di Rio Bianco (2150m). At the stump the path turns right and climbs for a short time on slightly cobbly terrain before leading to a series of switchbacks along which we climb quite steeply. The most difficult part of the route follows, where you have to descend vertically into a narrow notch. Self-balancing is highly recommended in this part. From the stubble you then climb up a vertical ladder and then slightly flatter slopes lead you to a narrow ridge. The path along the ridge is secured by a cable. Later, the path turns left and there is a short descent over rough terrain and then along a ropeway to the entrance to the tunnel. There are also bends and ladder descents on the way through the tunnel, so use of a torch is compulsory. Once out of the tunnel, there is a short crossing of a steep slope to Krniška stub, where an easier path from the Gorizia bivouac joins from the right. From the stubble, there is a descent on scree and then on increasingly grassy terrain, which leads to a crossroads. Turn right on route 627, and to the left the path leads to the Corsi hut, which is about 15 minutes' descent away. After a short climb, you reach the crossroads again, where you go left (direction Jof Fuart), and to the right is route 627, which leads to the Forcella di Riofreddo. The path then turns slightly to the left and leads you to the entrance to a slightly more difficult part of the route. Here the trail turns right uphill and some easy rock climbing is required. The path then turns slightly to the right and leads us to the slightly more difficult part of the route again. Here the path turns left uphill and starts to climb along the steel cable. There is a slightly low passage through a window and then a climb back up along the steel cable. The path then leads to a crossroads where the Anita Goitan path joins us from the right from the precipitous ledges. After a short climb, you come to a crossroads again, where you go right and the Anita Goitan trail branches off to the left. There follows a moderately steep climb on rocky and somewhat cobbly terrain. Just below the summit, the northeastern Gola Nordest trail joins from the right. From here it is just a short climb to a very scenic summit.

On the way: Rifugio Brunner (1432m), Bivouac Gorizia (1950m), Alta di Rio Bianco (2150m), Krniška škrbina/Forcella del Vallone (2180m)

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