Val Travenanzes

Wild and original it is here in the Travenanzes valley, through which you run up to the Falzarego pass. Lush meadows, the splashing of the stream, idyllic bridges - a dream!

Uncontaminated valley that goes up the Rio Travenanzes. Enchanting scenery. I looked like the set from the Lord of the Rings movie. Waterfalls and streams everywhere. Beware of the numerous fords. The water is freezing!

Val Travenanzes is one of the most evocative places in the Ampezzo Dolomites, the "wild" valley par excellence. It is included between the Tofane group (to the east) and the Lagazuoi - Fanes - Furcia Rossa groups (to the west). An enchanted place, of primordial beauty; completely uninhabited, without roads and shelters. In short, largely safeguarded by human hands. The valley, of glacial origin, presents a rather regular altimetric progression, accompanied by rugged and subvertical slopes. From the confluence with the Val di Fanes it develops a length of almost 10 km, for a positive difference in altitude of approximately 900 m. It is entirely crossed by path 401 which begins near the Cadoris Bridge. In this first stretch it appears as a narrow and deep gorge crossed by the Rio Travenanzes, from whose bottom the clayey layers that form the base of the Dolomites emerge. As the path rises halfway up the debris flows, suggestive water features descend from the peaks of the Tofane. In the central sector, path 401 flattens out significantly and continues on gravel alternating large grassy spaces and fords. Swallowed by the mountain pine forest you finally reach Malga Travenanzes (water point) at an altitude of 1,965 m between meadows and peat bogs. The last climb, the most challenging, takes place on trail sign 404 and leads to the top of the valley, near Forcella Col dei Bos (2,331 m).

Fascinating destination, as well as one of the testing grounds of the Lavaredo Ultra Trail.