| palček plezalček12. 02. 2020 21:51:30 |
I devised an attractive plan. Right above the starting point Val da Ros, Rifugio degli Alpini, a seemingly mountainous and picturesque path begins. The side ridge it follows unobtrusively leads me to Monte Dagn. As the path climbs quickly to here, it then descends quickly towards the 101 m lower namesake saddle (Sella Dagn), where you have to bite into the slope again. At around 1150 m altitude, you should turn right and look for passages along the High Shelf (Cengla Alta). Yeah, right. If I hadn't been in the element of a little chamois, I might have remembered to look out for a possible passage to the right at about the right height, but instead I remembered the shelf just below the ridge. And what worse could happen to me than deciding to descend and search for the passage. I climb to the ridge, where I first turn left to Monte Rosso (1309 m), then a 180° turn and along the ridge to the highest Monte Taiet (1369 m) and to the Monte Jovet (1310 m) lying to the northeast. From there down through dry grasses, so that with wide-open eyes I almost crash into the unexpected 'tourist sign'  standing at the viewpoint. Soon I turn to the Lower Shelf (Cengla Bassa), along which I return to the Dagn saddle. At the saddle I weigh the return options. Some quasi-trail should take me to the village of Brancs. It's there a bit, not there a bit, but I untangle its loops and puzzles on the fly without trouble, so after 40 minutes I'm at the Pradis mineral water filling station. From there along the road to Blancs, where a friendly lady assures me that I can take it across through the forest to Paludon. Well, the lady might have walked there once, but today the trees are broken, in between they cut a strip for power line poles, for which you have to break through the blackberries too, which admittedly is the last challenge on the hike, as a few dozen meters further I'm already standing on the narrow road, along which I return to the car (photos 1 to 10).
Cengla Alta - if it managed to escape me the first time, the second time it had no chances.
The starting point was at the former marble quarry in the hamlet I Piani, from where you can climb along the marked CAI 820 path to the place where your nose tells you to turn right onto the approximately 5 km traverse along the shelf overgrown with steep and dry grasses at this time, which separates the upper rock step from the middle one. Soon after the junction of CAI 820 and 821a paths, you come across a water trough with a cairn in front of it. Why? Who knows. Probably so that you rush to search for a possible passage to the shelf, but no success. You still have to follow the marked path and approximately where I previously determined that I'm already too high, which is also past two more cairns that like the first are by the path just so that you can at least wish good morning to someone, there is a nothing special spot where the marked path turns left. At this point you need to head into the hornbeams and sneak through them to the shelf. On it there should be a quite visible path, but I think it's better to follow your nose. On the bad half of the traverse it's worth climbing to the indistinct summit of Ciuc di Misdi (1136 m). If you're lucky, the bearded vultures with their 'adagio' flights will open the doors to their serene world of majesty for you.
From here to the end of the shelf is still far and the steepness of the grasses forces you after the break to stay focused, as a slip could easily cause an unforeseen, abundant, I don't know if exactly tasty dinner for the big birds.  Staying on track is very easy, as the second part of the shelf is even more picturesque, and the marked stake on the other side of the traverse announces the start of the return all too quickly. At the moment when my colleague, who joined me this time, and I were viewing Malga Jovet, a friendly gentleman arrived who regularly observes vultures. In the last few years, the number of their nests in the walls of Taiet has increased from one to five and this year - mating season just underway - he hopes for at least one more. The chicks will hatch after 60 days, i.e. early April. Probably the right time for overnighting in the malga, converted into a bivouac. In the lower floor there's an open fireplace, in the upper beds. If you want to close an eye, bring a mat along with your sleeping bag, because the mesh bottom of the beds doesn't provide deluxe comfort (photos 11 to 22).
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