Carbonin - Dürrensteinhütte / Rifugio Vallandro

Access to starting point:
Access from Gorenjska: Via the Rateče border crossing we drive to Trbiž / Tarvisio, where we head onto the highway in the direction of Vidma / Udine. We leave the highway at the Tolmezzo exit and follow the road to the mentioned settlement. From Tolmezzo we continue in the direction of the settlement Ampezzo and mountain pass Passo della Mauria. The road then starts descending and brings us into the Cadore valley, where we continue right (left Belluno and Cortina d'Ampezzo) in the direction of the settlement Auronzo. After a few additional km of driving, we come to the next bigger crossroad, where we go right in the direction of the settlement Misurina (left Tre Croci pass). From here we descend on the road to a bigger crossroad (right Dobbiaco and Austria, left Cortina d'Ampezzo). From the crossroad, we continue a few hundred meters in the direction towards Cortina d'Ampezzo, and then we park on a smaller parking lot on the right side of the road.
From Primorska side: We drive on the highway which leads over the Sežana border crossing to Trst / Trieste. Further, we drive on Italian highway in the direction of Padova, but only to a highway junction, where we continue in the direction of Veneto and Belluno. Near Belluno the highway ends, and we continue in the direction of Cortina d'Ampezzo and Auronzo. When the road brings us into the Cadore valley we will come to a bigger crossroad, where the road goes towards Cortina d'Ampezzo left, and towards Auronzo right. Here we continue right towards Auronzo. Further, we follow the description above.

Path description:
From the parking lot, we go right on a macadam road, where signs point us to »Dürrensteinhütte / Rif. Vallandro«. After a short ascent, we quickly come to a gate where we enter the nature park Fanes Sennes Prags. Further, we for some time walk on the road on which macadam and asphalt alternate. From the road which mostly runs through the forest a few times nice views open up towards the mountain group Cristallo. The road then brings us to a crossing, where signposts point us to the right on a footpath.
The footpath is then ascending mostly through the forest and later a few times crosses a road. The relatively flat path in the last part towards the mountain hut brings us on grassy slopes from which even nicer views open up on surrounding peaks. From footpath for a short time, we again join the road, and then follows a short steeper ascent to the hut.

Trip can be extended to: Knollkopf / Col Rotondo dei Canope (1 h 15 min) , Strudelköpf / Monte Specie , Helltaler Schlechten (2 h 5 min)