Technical data
Entrance: 600mt the upper part; 410mt the lower part
Exit: 270mt
Gap:330mt integral / 140mt lower part only
Development: 900mt integral / 500mt lower part only
Tallest slope: 35mt
Shuttle: 5km
Approach: 20 minutes integral / 5 minutes lower part
Progression: 3 hours, 30 minutes integral / 2 hours lower part
Return: 5 minutes
Anchoring: insufficient in the upper part
Excellent in the lower part. (ProCanyon)
Difficulty: v5 a3 IV
Number of slopes: 7, max 40mt
Recommended ropes: 2 x 50mt + 1 x 20mt + emergency rope
Period: May through October
Gear: Wetsuit
Cartography: Tabacco chart 1:25000 sheet #020 – Gemonese Carnic and Julian Prealps, or #18 – Eastern Carnic Alps Canal del Ferro
Description
Downstream access
Drive state road 13 toward Tarvisio. Shortly after the junction with state road #52, after passing the Carnia Hotel, drive for 1.5Km more until you find a left-turn curve (Km 172) preceded by a brown roadsign reading “Moggio Udinese”. Notice to the right the lot where to park in correspondence with the gorge’s exit.
Downstream parking lot coordinates: 46.38368898, 13.15801417
Upstream access
Drive back and pass the Carnia Hotel. At the junction, follow the indications to Udine. Shortly later, at a barrack (to the left), turn right (to ‘Carnia’) and shortly later again, to the right.
Follow the right, staying to the left, until a crossroads. Proceed straight, taking the narrow road that suddenly rises in the direction of the Tugliezzo hamlet.
Upper part:
After reaching Tugliezzo, park where the road widens into a large lot (shrine). A few meters ahead to the right, take a forest trail (no thoroughfare sign), paved in the first part and then dirt (indication to “Franz bivouac” when it starts rising). At a fork, proceed to the left following the CAI 701 trail indication, until you reach the point where the track crosses the Lavarie Brook and our itinerary begins (15’ overall).
Lower part only:
At Tugliezzo, proceed on a descent for about 200mt, then park nearby the bridge over Lavarie Brook. Before the bridge, to the left, a visible trail closed by a metal barrier delves into the wood (ProCanyon roadmark) and allows you to arrive to the creek bed in a few minutes.
Description
The upper part’s 6 slopes develop in an open environment (the tallest is fractiones). Proceed by foot, between blocks, to the bridge rising from the right bank and from where you can easily access to the trail that leads to the itinerary’s lower part. After a first, winding stretch and a cliff, it leads to the first slope before proceeding into a corridor – between high sides – that precedes the final part, continuous and engorged.
Upper part:
01 - C 20 Dx
02 - C 10 Dx
03 - TB 2
04 - C 8 Sx
05 - C 8 Sx
06 - C 35 Sx
07 - C 20 Sx
At the base, the last jump (not rigged), bypass to the right and into the scree.
Lower part:
06 - C 4 Dx + DEV Dx
07 - MC + PI + C 27 Sx
08 - TB 5
Confluence with Barbar Brook (to the Dx).
From here on, you have two options:
First option:
cross rightward and use long handrail to reach an esposed stop from where you can climb down the jump below and the following waterfall with one rappel
09a - MC + PI + C 18 Dx05 (Next slope is 2)
Second option:
proceed along the “Waterway”
09b - TF 5
10 - MC + C 10 Sx
11 - MC + C 7 Dx - possible TF 7
12 - MC Sx + PI Dx + C 8 + DEV Sx
13 – Hanging pool - MC + C 35 Sx
14 - MC + PI + C 33 Dx
At the base of the last slope, find 2 resined bolds for a zipline’s low anchoring.
Exit routes and return
Suddenly, as it had started, the narrow stretch ends. From here, arrive in 5’ to the square at the exit of the gorge.
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
