Carbonin - Monte Fumo / Rauhkofel (Northern route)

Access to starting point:
Access from Gorenjska: Over the border crossing Rateče we drive to Trbiž / Tarvisio, where we go on the highway in the direction of Videm / Udine. We leave the highway at exit Tolmezzo and we 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 a valley Cadore, where we continue right (left Belluno and Cortina d'Ampezzo) in the direction of the settlement Auronzo. After few additional km of driving, we come to the next bigger crossroad, where we go right in the direction of the settlement Misurina (left mountain pass Tre Croci). From here we descend on the road to a bigger crossroad (right Dobbiaco and Austria, left Cortina d'Ampezzo). A little before the mentioned crossroad we will on the left side of the road notice a larger parking lot on which we park.
From Primorska side: We drive on the highway which leads over the border crossing Sežana in 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 a valley Cadore we will get 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 continue approximately 200 meters on the main road in the direction towards Misurina. Two macadam roads will then branch off to the right. We go on secnd road following the signs Cortina.
For some time we then walk on the mentioned road which is popular among cyclists. From the right will join also two narrower roads, and then the road soon brings us to a wooden fence, where the cart track branches off to the left. By the cart track we will on the trees also notice some old blazes.
At the very beginning of cart track, we will on the left side by the fence notice a narrow footpath. We go on the mentioned footpath which starts quite steeply ascending (and straight on a cart track leads also the second path on Monte Fumo / Rauhkofel).
The footpath on which we are ascending is otherwise marked but in spite of that quite poorly beaten. In the initial part we will quite few times cross the fence, and then we will be ascending through dwarf pines on a quite steep slope. A view in the lower part is nice mainly towards the north where views opening up towards the summit Pico di Vallandro and Croda Rossa. The path further leads past some military tunnels from the first world war and few times it very steeply ascends. The path few times also crosses slightly exposed slopes. Because the path is badly beaten at the crossing quite some caution is needed. Higher at such crossing we also get help from a wire. After that, the path for some time runs on the western side of the mountain where in a gentle ascent crosses steep slopes.
A little below the summit, the path brings us to a crossing where we go left upwards, right leads the path on the south side of the mountain and then on the western slopes into a valley.
From the crossing, the path at first ascends a little steeper, and then follows a little less steep path by dwarf pines to a panoramic summit.
The described path is relatively poorly maintained therefore on some spots quite some caution is needed.