Piano Fiscalino / Fischleinboden - Croda Fiscalina di Mezzo / Oberbachernspitze

Access to starting point:
From Ljubljana through the Karawanks Tunnel to Spittal. Next we drive towards Lienz, where at the roundabout we continue in the direction of the village Sillian and Italy. On the Italian side of the border, we quickly come to San Candido, where we continue left in the direction of the tourist town Sesto / Sexten. Only a little after the town Sesto we come to San Giuseppe / Moss, where signs for Val Fiscalina / Fischleintal point us to the right. Further, we drive on an ascending road, which we follow to a large paid parking lot.
Free parking is approximately 2 km lower, by the bottom station of the circular cable car "Alta Pusteria".

Path description:
From the parking lot, we continue a few dozen meters on the main road and a little before the hotel Dolomitenhof we turn right onto a narrow road which is closed to traffic. The initially still asphalted road soon becomes macadam. From the road, we later turn left onto a wide footpath which leads further through a scenic valley. On a gentle path, we then soon reach the mountain hut Talschlusshütte / Rifugio Fondo Valle.
At the mountain hut, we continue right following the signs »Rif. Tre Cime« and »Rif. Comici«. After a few minutes of walking on a wide track we come again to a marked junction. At the junction where there is a magnificent view of the northern wall of the peak Einserkofel / Cima Una (2698m) we continue left on path 103 where signs direct us to the mountain hut Rifugio Comici / Zsigmondy Hütte, and right leads the path towards the mountain hut Rifugio Locatelli / Drei Zinnen Hütte.
Further, the path turns left and runs on gentle terrain mostly along dwarf pines towards the valley Val Fiscilina Alta. The path then starts to ascend in zigzags and brings us to the slopes on the eastern side of the peak Cima Una. Here the path leads high above the valley under steep walls and all the time runs towards the south. At first, the path crosses the slope with sparse forest a few times, then brings us to even steeper slopes. Since the path is wide the ascent does not cause us problems. In winter time, when there is snow here, the path is dangerous for slipping. In the last part of the path towards the hut, a nice view opens up on the precipitous walls of the peak Collerena 2607 m, then the path turns slightly right and the last ascent to the hut Comici follows.
From the hut, we continue right towards the west following the signs »Rif. Pian di Cengia« (path 101). The path further ascends towards the west and increasingly beautiful views open up on the surrounding peaks. Grass and other vegetation along the path becomes rarer and rarer and ascent follows on a rocky slope to the saddle Passo Fiscalino. Here we will also notice some remains from the First World War along the path. From the saddle, we continue slightly right following the signs »Rif. Pian di Cengia«. The path here becomes less steep and after crossing steep slopes brings us to the hut Pian di Cengia.
For the ascent towards the summit Croda Fiscalina di Mezzo we continue on the left side of the hut, namely on a somewhat poorly marked but still sufficiently visible path. Scenic path, which ascends only gently, slowly turns to the right and a little higher brings us to a notch, from which a nice view opens up to the left into a mighty gully. The path then withdraws from the ridge to the right and brings us to a military tunnel through which the mountain path runs (the tunnel is short, so a headlamp is not mandatory but is recommended due to the puddle in the tunnel). The path further starts to ascend more steeply and after another 10 minutes of walking brings us to the precipitous summit.

On the way: Dolomitenhof (1454m), Rifugio Fondo Valle / Talschlußhütte (1548m), Rifugio Comici / Zsigmondy Hütte (2224m), Rifugio Pian di Cengia (2528m)