Sass de Pordoi - Piz Boe

Access to the starting point:
First, drive to Cortina d'Ampezzo (you can get here via Border crossing Rateče or Predel to Trbiž / Tarvisio and then take the motorway towards Udine to the Tolmezzo exit. From Tolmezzo, follow the road towards Ampezzo and the Passo della Mauria mountain pass. The road then descends and leads to a crossroads where you turn left (possibly right) towards Cortina d'Ampezzo. At all subsequent junctions, follow the signs for Cortina d'Ampezzo.
In Cortina d'Ampezzo, follow the signs for the Passo di Falzarego Alpine pass. At this pass, you reach a crossroads where you follow the road on the left towards Marmolada and the village of Arabba (Alta Badia on the right). The road descends for some time before reaching a crossroads where you continue on the right towards Passo Pordoi (Marmolada on the left). Follow the road, which is relatively wide and ascending, all the way to the pass, where you park in a large parking lot. Then buy a lift ticket to take you to your starting point at 2950 m.
Access from Primorska: Take the 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 follow the road towards Belluno, where at a major junction we turn right towards Agordo. From there, follow the signs for Arabba and the Passo Pordoi Alpine pass, which is the starting point of our tour. We then buy a lift ticket to take us to our starting point at 2950 m.

Path description:
From the top station of the cable car at Sass de Pordoi, follow the path towards the Rifugio Forcella Pordoi hut. The wide and well-used path begins to descend more visibly and, after about 15 minutes' walking, leads to the aforementioned mountain hut, where the path from the Passo Pordoi pass joins us on the right.
From the hut, continue straight on towards the summit and hut Piz Boe. The path is very wide and winding, then crosses the slopes to the east for a while, before leading into a more plateau-like world, where you come to a marked crossroads. Continue slightly right towards the summit of Piz Boe (Piz Boe hut on the left) along a path which climbs moderately for a short distance before leading to a very flat area. Further on, the ascent is barely significant and is marked by a number of large cairns markers in addition to the trail markers. The trail gradually begins to climb and quickly leads to the south-west ridge of Piz Boe, which is then climbed on and along. The path becomes steeper and along the way we even come across some fixed safety gear (easy), which are placed here mainly because of the crowds (because the cable car goes high up, we can also see people on the way who are wearing only sandals, and there are not a few of them). We then follow this wide and sometimes steeper path all the way to the top of Piz Boe, which we reach without any major problems.

On the way: Rifugio Forcella Pordoi (2848m)

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