Passo Campolongo - Rifugio La Marmotta

Access to starting point:
Through the Karawanks Tunnel, we drive to Austria, then we continue driving towards Spittal and onwards 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. Just a little after the last-mentioned town, past which a bypass road leads, we turn left into the Val Badia valley. Further, we drive through the mentioned valley past the places 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 on which 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.

Path 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 tens of meters we get to a marked junction.
We turn left onto a worse cart track, where signs for »Inzija, Pralongia« direct us. To the right, a cart track leads 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 to the left downhill a path branches off towards the Planac parking lot and further towards the place Corvara. We continue straight and the path quickly brings us from the forest onto the ski slope. Here the path steeply ascends on the ski slope for a short time, then turns left from the ski slope and again enters the forest. Further, the path runs through the forest from which we occasionally get views 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 we 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.
To the left downhill leads another path towards the place Corvara, to the right a path leads towards the summit Cherz, but we continue straight ahead following the signs »Inzija, Pralongia«. A level path, which occasionally also gently descends, continues through the forest towards the east. Here along the path we will notice quite a few benches and springs. When we get out of the forest, 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 is also the nicely arranged hut La Marmotta.

On the way: Passo Incisa (1938m)

Trip can be extended to: Rifugio Incisa ( 5 min) , Rifugio Punta Trieste ( 20 min) , Pralongia ( 50 min) , Stores (1 h 10 min) , Monte Sief (3 h) , Pico Setsas (2 h 40 min) , Col di Lana (3 h 30 min) , Setsas (2 h 50 min)