Technical data
- Entrance: 580mt
- Exit: 365mt
- Difference in height: 215mt
- Length: 250mt
- Shuttle:1km
- Approach: 40 minutes
- Progression: 2 hours
- Return: 5 minutes
- Anchoring: ProCanyon
- Difficulty: v4 a2 III
- Number of rappels: 6
- Suggested ropes: 2, 80 mt
- Period: May through October (better after some rains, so to have more sliding)
- Exit ways: from the foot of the last cliff, climb over the balustrade to the right and head for a walk that passes through the Villanova hamlet, leads to the state road and finally to the parking lot.
- Materials: full wetsuit
- Cartography:Tabacco chart 1:25000 sheet #018 – Eastern Carnic Alps, Canal del Ferro
- Creek bed access point coordinates: 46.4083975, 13.28976297
Description
Downstream access
Drive State Road 13 toward Tarvisio; in the vicinity of Chiusaforte (Villanova suburb), leave the car at the parking lot to the right, from where you can see the route’s highest waterfall. Tourist indication to Belepeit Brook
Upstream access
Get back to the state road toward Tarvisio, drive into Chiusaforte at the first road to the left, and follow it to a plaza with fountain, where you park. CAI 425 trail begins between the houses.
Approach
Follow CAI 425 trail up to about 580mt above sea level, where you meet Belepeit Brook. This is the second creek you meet during the approach walk (the first, about 30 minutes from the start).
First rappel is along a tree, and it introduces a crowded series of rappels.
01 - AN 6 Sx
02 - MC + C 12 Sx
03 - MC + C 75 Dx
04 - C 12 Sx
05 - MC + PI + C 35 Dx
3 10-fix available over the stop to create an attachment point for a zip-line. At the foot of the cliff, two resined bolts for zip-line attachment are fixed on a boulder at the center of the creek. Possible escape route to the left.
06 - C 7 Dx (down to the right under rock step)
07 - C 40 Dx
Return
After easily reaching the walk under the old railway’s bridge, you will arrive to the car in a very short time.
How to read the data sheet
C = rappel equipped point
AN = natural ancorage
MC = handrail
PI = halfway point
DEV = Deviation
DIS = downclimb
TB = toboga
TF = leap
The notation Dx (right) and Sx (left), relative to the rappel points, the handrail, deviations, etc., always indicate the creek orographic bank, where they are positioned. For instance, DEV Sx indicates that the deviation lays on the left bank, and not to the left of the canyoner that will face the deviation
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