Passo Campolongo - Pralongia

Access to starting point:
Through the Karawanks Tunnel, we drive to Austria, and then we continue driving towards Spittal and then 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 a bypass leads, we turn left into the Val Badia valley. Further, we drive through the mentioned valley past the villages La Vila and Corvara. Next follows an ascent towards the pass Passo Campolongo. A few hundred meters before the pass, we will notice a macadam parking lot on the left side, where we park. The parking lot is located behind the Hotel Laguscei opposite the bus station. By the road is also the lower station of the chairlift. A smaller parking lot is also on the right side of the road before the bus station.

Route description:
From the parking lot at the Hotel Laguscei we ascend on a cart track which runs right below the cableway and after a few dozen meters we get to a marked junction.
We turn left on a poorer cart track, where the signs »Inzija, Pralongia« direct us. To the right leads the cart track towards the summit Cherz. Our path then crosses the ski slope to the left side of the cableway and the cart track quickly turns into a footpath. The path then brings us into the forest and left downwards a path branches off towards the parking lot Planac and further towards the village Corvara. We continue straight and the path quickly brings us out of the forest onto the ski slope. Here the path steeply ascends on the ski slope for a short time and then turns left from the ski slope and again enters the forest. Further, the path runs through the forest from which occasionally views open up towards the mountain group Puez. Such a path soon brings us to a junction, where from the right another slightly longer path from the pass Passo Campolongo joins.
At the junction we continue left and then through the forest cross the slopes mostly towards the east. The path then brings us out of the forest onto a clearing or ski slope where there is a bench and another junction.
Left downwards leads another path towards the village Corvara, to the right leads a path towards the summit Cherz, and we continue straight ahead following the signs »Inzija, Pralongia«. A level path, which occasionally also slightly descends, continues through the forest towards the east. Here along the path we will also notice quite a few benches and springs. When we come out of the forest then only a short descent follows and the path brings us to the saddle Passo Incisa, where we join the macadam road. Here on the left side there is also a nicely arranged mountain hut La Marmotta.
At the marked junction in front of the hut we continue straight along the road in the direction of Pralongia. The road immediately from the hut begins to ascend relatively steeply towards the east. Here the path runs near the cableway and the Incisa ski slope. We continue further along the ascending road from which increasingly beautiful views open up on the mountain groups Marmolada, Sella and Puez.
Left somewhat downwards then a path branches off towards the hut Rifugio Punta Trieste, and we continue further along the road upwards. Higher the road turns slightly left and brings us to yet another junction. Left leads another path towards the mentioned hut, and we continue somewhat to the right and continue ascending towards the summit Pralongia on which we already see the upper station of the cableway. Along the panoramic road we then continue all the way to the summit beside which there is also the hut Rifugio Pralongia. From here an even more beautiful view opens up also on the mountains above the Val Badia valley and towards the summit Setsas.

Along the route: Passo Incisa (1938m), Rifugio La Marmotta (1938m)

The trip can be extended to the following destinations: Stores ( 20 min), Monte Sief (2 h 10 min), Pico Setsas (1 h 50 min), Col di Lana (2 h 40 min), Setsas (2 h)

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