Technical data
Entrance: 800mt
Exit: 365mt
Gap: 435mt
Development: 800mt
Shuttle: 600mt
Approach: 1 hours, 15 minutes
Progression: 4 hours
Anchoring: sufficient
Difficulty: V4 a2 III
Recommended ropes: 2 x 60mt and 1 x 35
Period: May through October (better after rain, so to have some sliding)
Escape routes: Narrow trail between slopes 10 and 11. Then CAI 425 trail between slopes 12 and 13. Toward the end, numerous tracks both to the left and the right bank.
Gear: wetsuit, pocket ring
Cartography: Tabacco chart 1:25000 sheet #018 – Eastern Carnic Alps Canal del Ferro
Description
Downstream access
Driving State Road 13 toward Tarvisio, park just before Chiusaforte, nearby (on the road’s opposite side) the highway’s service junction.
Downstream parking lot coordinates:46.406539, 13.302325
Upstream access
Driving State Road 13 toward Tarvisio, and into Chiusaforte at the first entrance to the left. Follow the road to a small square with fountain, where you can park.
Between the houses, starts CAI 425 trail toward Casera Cite. Follow it to about 500mt above sea level, where you’ll walk across CAI 246 trail. Take it on a steel climb and follow it. Pass the small Sant’Antonio Hermitage and proceed to about 800mt above sea level, where the trail crosses the brook on a rather flat stretch
Description
01 - AN 5 Sx
Tributary to the right
Traces of ruins to the right
02 - AN 6 Dx
03 - C9 Dx
04 - C 15 Sx (two jumps)
05 - C 16 Sx
Thus you reach slope 06, with a very characteristic structure (start the descent by crawling).
06 - C 14 Sx
To reach the rig of slope 07, you must proceed with the previous climb and arrive to the stop walking across to the right.
07 - C 20 Dx
08 - TF 3
09 - C 8 Sx
Progression 50mt – possible escape route to the left (track in a short time to the hermitage)
10 - AN 14 Dx
11 - C 48 Dx
12 - AN 21 Sx
Arrive now to the point where CAI 425 trail crosses the Brook
13 - AN 15 Dx
14 - AN 50 Dx
15 - AN 13 Dx
Slopes 14 and 15 could be climbed down in one solution, but at the risk of considerable friction.
16 - C 20 Sx (behind the visible rock blade – walk around to the orographic left to reach them).
Here a yellow-marked trail crosses the brook. In normal conditions, the water disappears from here to the end of the gorge
17 - AN 55 Sx
Narrow trail to the right, with concrete small bridge. It is possible to proceed (red marks), but it is overall of scarce interest. It is probably easier to exit here.
Exit
Depends where you want to exit, buti t is elementary and intuitive anyway.
How to read the data sheet
C = slope 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 slope 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.
