Passo Campolongo - Stores

Access to starting point:
Through the Karawanks Tunnel, we drive to Austria, and then we continue driving towards Spittal and further 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 place, past which a bypass runs, 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 where we park. The parking lot is located behind the hotel Laguscei opposite the bus stop. By the road there is also the lower station of the chairlift. A smaller parking lot is also on the right side of the road before the bus stop.

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 reach a marked junction.
We turn left on a worse cart track, where signs for »Inzija, Pralongia« direct us. To the right the 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 downwards a path branches off towards the parking lot Planac and further towards the place 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 still 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 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 downwards another path leads towards the place Corvara, to the right a path leads towards the summit Cherz, but we continue straight ahead and follow the signs »Inzija, Pralongia«. A gently sloping path, which occasionally also slightly descends, continues through the forest towards the east. Here along the path we will 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 maintained 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.
To the left somewhat downwards then a path branches off towards the hut Rifugio Punta Trieste, but we continue upwards along the road. Higher up the road turns slightly to the left and brings us to another junction. To the left another path leads towards the mentioned hut, but 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.
From the summit we continue on a wide path towards the east where signs direct us to Setsas and Col di Lana. Initially the path slightly descends and runs along a wide indistinct ridge. The path then continues towards the east and begins to ascend slightly. When we approach the slopes of the summit Stores, the path turns left and brings us to the northern side of the mentioned summit, where there is also a marked junction.
Here we leave the wider macadam path and turn right upwards onto a footpath that ascends the grassy slope towards the summit Stores. After a short ascent we already see the cross on the summit. The path then turns slightly to the left and along the summit grassy slope we soon reach the panoramic summit with a cross and a bench.

On the way: Passo Incisa (1938m), Rifugio La Marmotta (1938m), Pralongia (2109m)

Trip can be extended to: Monte Sief (1 h 50 min) , Pico Setsas (1 h 30 min) , Col di Lana (2 h 20 min) , Setsas (1 h 40 min)