Kluže / Chiusaforte - Montusel (on pathi 427 and 427a)
Starting point: Kluže / Chiusaforte (397 m)
Path name: on pathi 427 and 427a
Time of walking: 3 h 45 min
Difficulty: partly demanding marked way, difficult pathless terrain
Difficulty of skiing: no data
Altitude difference: 1484 m
Altitude difference (by path): 1484 m
Map: Alpi Carniche Orientali Canal del Ferro; Foglio 18
Access to starting point:
A) From Kranjska Gora past Trbiž / Tarvisio, and on the old road towards Videm / Udine all the way to the parking lot by the main road about a kilometer before the settlement Kluže / Chiusaforte and only a few kilometers ahead from the settlement Dunja / Dogna.
B) From Nova Gorica or Sežana on the Italian highway to Palmanova, here choose the direction Trbiž / Tarvisio to the exit Carnia, then follow the old main road towards Trbiž through Kluže / Chiusaforte for about a kilometer and about 200 meters after the tunnel on the left is a parking lot.
Path description:
From the parking lot, we go along the edge of the road towards Kluže. After 200 meters we notice sharply to the right the marked path number 417, we cross the road fence and go up the stairs onto the path, which through the forest shoulder partly in zigzags, more level to the right, brings us in 50 minutes to the hamlet Costamolino. We go through the central part of the hamlet, then left past the houses and behind the hamlet right into the forest. After 5 minutes we reach the road, along it about 500 meters, then again onto the path, which first goes past the last house in the hamlet, and past a meadow on the left side back into the forest. A little higher in the forest we come to a fork, we go right towards Montusel, towards which we ascend for quite some time partly in zigzags through the pine forest of the eastern and southern slopes of the peak Plan de la Fratte. Higher we come out of the forest, we cross the southern slopes of Montusel on an already occasionally narrower footpath, later the path turns towards the notch below the summit, in between we cross some smaller gullies, where a more careful step is needed, but the path is not demanding. To the notch 2 hours and a half from Costamolino.
Then follows another 20 minutes of ascent over grass towards the summit Montusel, where there are no more blazes nor a real path. It is not overly demanding either, but the route is still somewhat exposed and in case of rain quite dangerous. The effort is rewarded with a wonderful view.
On the way: Costamolino (794m), Forcella del Montusel (1761m)
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