Passo di Giau - Rifugio Averau (path 452)
Starting point: Passo di Giau (2233 m)
Starting point Lat/Lon: 46.4825°N 12.0538°E 
Path name: path 452
Time of walking: 1 h 10 min
Difficulty: partly demanding marked way
Difficulty of skiing: demanding
Altitude difference: 180 m
Altitude difference (by path): 280 m
Map: Tabacco 03 1:25.000
Access to starting point:
First, we drive to Cortina d'Ampezzo (you can get here via the border crossing at Rateče or Predel to Trbiž / Tarvisio and then on the highway in the direction of Vidma / Udine to the Tolmezzo exit. From Tolmezzo, we follow the road in the direction of the village Ampezzo and mountain pass Passo della Mauria. The road then descends and brings us to an intersection, where we continue left (right is also possible) in the direction of Cortina d'Ampezzo. At all subsequent intersections, we follow the signs for Cortina d'Ampezzo. Alternatively, from the Primorska side, where we drive on the highway in the direction of Trst / Trieste. Further, we drive on the Italian highway in the direction of Padova, but only to the highway junction, where we continue in the direction of Veneto and Belluno. Near Belluno, the highway ends, and at the next intersections we continue in the direction of Cortina d'Ampezzo and then follow the signs for the alpine pass Passo di Falzarego. We then follow this ascending road to the intersection at an altitude of approximately 1400 m. At the intersection, we continue left in the direction of the alpine pass Passo di Giau and Marmolada. We park on the large parking lot at the aforementioned alpine pass.
Path description:
From the mountain pass, we continue on a wide path past the mountain hut Rifugio Passo Giau. After a short ascent on a wide path, we come to a junction, where path 443 branches off to the right. We continue on the wide path upwards, and then the path becomes narrower and turns a little left onto the west side of the mountain Ragusela. Here the path starts to descend and crosses scree towards the north. Later, the path starts ascending on a quite steep and also slightly crumbly slope, which then brings us to grassy slopes. From the grassy slopes, we soon join the wide path from the mountain hut Rifugio Fedare (2000 m) and a shorter ascent to the hut Averau follows.
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