Malga Crocifisso - Rifugio Alpino Buffaure

Access to starting point:
Access from Gorenjska: Through the Karawanks Tunnel, we drive to Austria, and then we continue driving towards Spittal and forward towards Lienz (a little after Spittal the highway ends). Further, we drive on a relatively nice and wide road through the Drau valley, which brings us to Italy. The road further leads past Dobbiaco / Toblach and Brunico / Bruneck. Only a little after the last-mentioned town, past which there is a bypass road, we turn left into the Val Badia valley. Further, we drive through the mentioned valley past the settlements La Vila and Corvara. Next follows an ascent over the mountain passes Passo Campolongo and Passo Pordoi. From the mountain pass Passo Pordoi we then descend on the west side into the Val di Fassa valley. In the settlement Pozza di Fassa then at the roundabout, we continue left in the direction of Val San Nicolo. We follow this road to the mountain pasture Malga Crocifisso. From the mountain pasture, we can continue a little less than a kilometer on the road and then we turn left (marked with the sign Ferrata) over a small bridge where we park.
From Primorska side: From Nova Gorica, we drive to Italy and drive forward on the highway towards Venice / Venezia. At the town Portogruaro we leave the highway towards Venice and continue right on the highway towards Pordenone. At the next highway junction near Conegliano, we continue right towards Belluno. We follow the highway to the exit for Belluno. When we leave the highway we come to a bigger roundabout, which we leave at the exit for Belluno and the settlement Feltre. In the smaller roundabout in the settlement Belluno we then continue right towards the settlement Agordo. We then follow this road all the way to the settlement Pozza di Fassa in the Val di Fassa valley. In the settlement Pozza di Fassa then at the roundabout, we continue right in the direction of Val San Nicolo. We follow this road to the mountain pasture Malga Crocifisso. From the mountain pasture, we can continue a little less than a kilometer on the road and then we turn left (marked with the sign Ferrata) over a small bridge where we park.

Path description:
From the starting point, we continue left on the road which ascends through a belt of forest and soon brings us to a ski slope. We continue on the mentioned road which further runs on the ski slope from which beautiful views start to open up on peaks above the valley Val di San Nicolo.
When the ski slope turns to the left, we leave the road which runs on the ski slope and go slightly right on a cart track which leads into the forest. In case we miss the junction we can also still continue on the ski slope, which also leads towards the mountain hut Rifugio Buffaure. From the junction, we continue on the cart track which starts ascending through the forest and we will soon on the right side notice a feeder for wildlife. We still continue straight and the cart track passes into a footpath. The path then turns to the right and then mostly ascends in zigzags through the forest. The path is otherwise marked with red-white blazes, which are relatively rare. During the ascent the path occasionally brings us to shorter clearings from which a nice view also opens up on surrounding peaks. Such a path then runs all the way until we come out of the forest on grassy slopes from which a view opens up towards the mountain hut Rifugio Buffaure. The path then turns to the left and follows the last ascent to the mountain hut.

Trip can be extended to: Rifugio Baita Cuz ( 30 min) , Col de Valvacin (1 h 5 min) , Sas de Adam (1 h 25 min)