Sass de Pordoi - Sass de Forcia Occidentale

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 also 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 much-visited path begins to descend more visibly and, after about 15 minutes' walking, leads to the aforementioned hut, where the path from the Passo Pordoi pass joins us on the right.
From the hut, continue straight on towards the Piz Boe summit and the Piz Boe hut (down the Passo Pordoi pass on the right).
Continue along the wide path to the east, with the Sass de Forcia Occidentale and Sass de Forcia di Mezzo peaks above us on the right (south side). When you get between these two peaks, you will see a not too steep scree slope on your right. Leave the broad marked path and follow the scree, which leads to a small saddle between the two peaks.
At the saddle, continue to the right and soon reach the summit on easy terrain.
Sass de Pordoi - Rifugio Forcella Pordoi 0:15, Rifugio Forcella Pordoi - Sass de Forcia Occidentale 0:15.

On the way: Rifugio Forcella Pordoi (2848m)

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