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Smugglers' Trail

Smugglers' Trail

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Smugglers' Trail

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5.0

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Routes leading to this Highlight may be highly dangerous

Routes comprise technical, difficult, or hazardous terrain. Specialist equipment and prior experience is required.

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Location: Riva Del Garda, Trentino, Italy

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Jonathan

April 19, 2017

Mountaineering

The Smugglers' Trail is a narrow rocky path that runs along the steep west side of Lake Garda right through a huge rock face. At first, this tour is NOT a via ferrata in the traditional sense, there are only a few passages with a steel rope insured! You have to bring a climbing rope and express slings (and also the experience with them) to handle this way without stress.

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Bumble-Bee

May 23, 2022

Mountaineering

Very nice path, longer than it looks on the topo from bergsteiger.com. How long it takes depends a lot on how/where you belay - longer stretches can easily be hiked. There are enough hooks to hang Exen. What works well is a running backup at a distance of roughly 20 m. The more exes you take with you, the less time you lose with leadership changes. If that's not enough as a technical description, you should probably leave it alone.

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Franco Dalfovo

April 21, 2026

Mountaineering

🚧🚧 April 18, 2026 the trail is closed for works 🚧🚧

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Elevation 110 m

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