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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Tobias Herrmann

September 28, 2019

Mountaineering

Quite scary. Take care ;)

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