Technical data
- Entrance: 480mt
- Exit: 350mt
- Gap: 130mt
- Development: 500mt
- Highest slope: 15mt
- Suggested period: May through October.
- Exposure: North-West
- Approach: 20'
- Progression: 1h
- Return: 20'
- Shuttle: No
- Anchoring: Sufficient
- Recommended ropes: 1 x 40mt + emergency rope
- Gear: wetsuit, pocket ring
- Escape routes:No
- Cartography: Tabacco chart 1:25000 sheet #018 – Eastern Carnic Alps Canal del Ferro
- Interest: Regional
- Difficulty: V2 a2 II
Description
Bed access point coordinates:
46.1819611, 13.5962516
Downstream access:
Follow SS 13 toward Tarvisio until Chiusaforte. At the bridge that to the right crosses the Fella river (toward Nevea Pass), turn right and herad for the Raccolana suburb. Here, turn left and drive into the hamlet until you’ll reach a square with a parking lot nearby the church and a tennis field.
A stairway starts from the parking lot. Follow it, turn left and then uphill to the right, thus back onto asphalt road upstream the houses.
Proceed for some dozen meters, until you find to the left the start of #620 trail. Follow it to a bridge that crosses the creek. Right after the bridge, walk down into the creek bed.
01 - C 6 + DEV Dx
02 - C 6 Sx + DEV Dx
03 -mtC + PI + C15 Dx + DEV Sx
04 -mtC + C 9 Dx
05 -mtC + C 11 Dx
06 - C 13 + DEV Sx
Exit:
After the last slope, the gorge suddenly ends and you are under the motorway viaducts. Proceed and reach the Fella riverbed on its orographic left bank. To return to Raccolana, the easier solution is to walk up the old railway now destined as bicycle path. You can easily reach it by walking for about 100mt upstream the Fella bed, until it becomes easy enough to climb the concrete-and-rock railway ballast. it is important to locate the point where a small brook, almost always dry, runs under the ex-railway. It is in fact the only opening to the high containment walls of the otherwise inaccessible bicycle path. Once at the path, walk it until you arrive to Chiusaforte, then by foot to Raccolana built up area.
