Technical data
- Entrance: 560mt
- Exit:260mt
- Gap:300mt
- Development: 700mt
- Highest slope:20mt
- Shuttle: No
- Approach: 20 minutes
- Progression: 2 hours
- Return: 5 minutes
- Anchoring: excellent
- Difficulty: V3 a1 II
- Recommended ropes: 1 x 40 m + emergency rope
- Period: May through October
- Escape routes: when you walk into the trail that crosses the creek. It is also possible to rise from the creek bed in numerous points.
- Gear: wetsuit
- Cartography: Tabacco chart 1:25000 sheet #018 – Eastern Carnic Alps Canal del Ferro
Description
Dowstream access: from Chiusaforte, take the road (SP 75) that leads to Nevea Pass and drive it for about 6.2Km to Saletto. Here, turn left toward Chiout Cali suburb.
Follow the road and park in a lot at the beginning of the village, nearby a small bridge.
Downstream parking lot coordinates: 46.242022, 13.221686
Approach
From the parking lot, proceed by foot and follow the first road to the right. It leads into the built up area and until a small leftward bend. Here, in the vicinity of a concrete house (leaving it behind to the left), proceed along CAI 641 trail, which at first crosses a meadow and then delves into a wood (water intake and then bridge over the creek).
Right after crossing the brook, abandon the main trial and hike up to the left, along a steep track in the wood (yellow mark). it proceeds with steep bends until – at first with a slight incline and then on a slight decline – it reaches the creek bed.
01 – C 5Sx
02 – TB / DIS 2
03 – C 20 Dx
04 - MC + PI + C17 Dx
05 – DIS 2
06 - C 6 Dx
07 - MC + PI + C11 Sx
08 – C 8 halfway
09 – MC halfway + PI + C 10 Sx
Two resined bolts to the base, for zipline
CAI 641 trail escape route
10 – MC + PI + C 15 Dx
11 – AN 5 Sx
12 – C 20 (2 jumps) + DEV Dx
After the last slope, proceed along the brook and in 5 minutes up the left bank, arrive to the bridge
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.
