Untere Valentinalm - Monte Coglians (Hohe Warte) (via Wolayer See)

Access to the starting point:
From Trbiz/Tarvisio, take the motorway to Udine/Vidmo. Leave the motorway at Carnico and first follow signs for Tolmezzo, then signs for Austria and the Pso di Croce Carnico Pass / Plockenpass. At the pass, descend to the Austrian side past the Plocken Haus hut. Soon the road branches off to the left towards the Untere Valentinalm hut, where there is also a small parking lot.

Path description:
At the hut, turn onto the mountain road after the Ob. The road is quite sloping and is closed to public traffic. Soon we leave the road and turn right onto a track which later crosses the road several times and leads us in less than an hour to the Obere Valentinalm hut from which there is a nice view of Rauchkofel (2460m) and the north face of the Kellerspitzen (2769m).
From the hut, follow the well-marked path past the mountain pasture where cattle graze in summer. At the end of mountain pasture the path turns slightly to the left, where you start to climb up the valley below the mighty walls of the Coglians. The path through the valley, which sometimes runs on grassy slopes and sometimes on slopes strewn with rocks and boulders, leads in just over an hour to a junction at the saddle Valentin Torl (2238m). To the right is the path to Rauchkofel, and to the left is a very difficult climbing route to Monte Coglians. Rauchkofel is a very difficult climbing route to the left. We take the middle route, which starts descending from the saddle and leads us in about half an hour to the lake Wolayer See from where there is a very nice view of Monte Coglians and Monte Capolago. The Wolayerseehutte hut is also by the lake.
At the lake, turn left towards the Wolayer pass pass, which is only a few minutes' walk away. From the pass, where there is a hut Rufugio Lambertenghi Romanin on the Italian side, descend a little and you will soon reach a crossroads where you turn left after the Rifugio Marinelli (Sentiero Spinotti trail) signs, the right path leads into the valley towards the Tolazzi hut. From the crossroads, first cross the scree below the western walls of Coglianso for a short distance, then the path becomes much more difficult. Using the fixed safety gear and a ladder, climb the almost vertical narrow gully. The path then climbs up quite steep rock slopes, where we are occasionally helped by rope ladders. The path briefly becomes a little flatter and turns slightly to the left before climbing steeply up the rocky slopes again until reaching the grassy slopes on the south side of Coglians. The path becomes easier and soon joins the path from the Marinelli hut across meadows and scree. Here you start to climb up a slightly slippery scree slope, which becomes quite steep in the upper part. At the last part, the path turns left and there is a steep climb with some easy scrambling towards a very scenic summit.

On the way: Obere Valentinalm (1540m), Valentin Torl (2238m), The lake Wolayer See (1951m), Wolayer pass (1974m), Rufugio Lambertenghi Romanin (1955m)

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