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Rifugio Grauzaria » Tolmezzo
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Once up Foran da la Gjaline and the pass between Mount Sernio and Creta di Mezzodì, the trail leads to Monte Sernio Hut. It then follows a stretch of the “Carnia Trekking” trail and leads to the hamlet of Illegio, and along the road to Tolmezzo.
Detailed route description
Follow trail 437 to Casera del Mestri (1512m) and then trail 416, around a broad gravel lake. Up a steep slope, covered in pine trees, the trail leads to the Monte Sernio hut (1419m). It then heads west along the “Carnia trekking” trail to the fork at Salinchiet where trail 455, on the right, heads to the Palasecca di Sopra, Palasecca di Sotto and Stavoli Pelons huts and the village of Illegio (576m). From there the road leads to Tolmezzo (320m). This is a small town, the architecture is beautiful and it is the seat of an important ethnographic museum. Tolmezzo is well connected by public transport and a crossroads for major road routes. Climb the valley of the But stream, following the ancient Roman road that lead from Aquileia, through Julium Carnicum (a Roman burial ground, now Zuglio) and the Monte Croce Carnico pass, to the Gail river valley in Carinthia, Austria.
(Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia)
Other long-distance trails and alternative routes
Alta Via Val d'Incarojo. Carnia Trekking
Useful topographic maps
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013 ~ TABACCO (1:25000)
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013 ~ TABACCO (1:25000)
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Foglio A ~ TABACCO - Carnia Trekking (1:25000)
Useful guidebooks
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Andar per monti in Friuli Venezia Giulia ~ Istituto Geografico de Agostini (ISBN 88.402.9640.9)
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Alpi Carniche, vol. I ~ CAI - TCI (ISBN 88.365.0344.6)
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Via Alpina Gelber Weg, Evamaria Wecker ~ Bruckmann (ISBN 978-3-7654-4858-7)
Picture gallery
Last update : 2009-12-03
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