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Hiking tour Pisciadù

Stamina
Technique
Experience
Landscape
Difficulty:
Medium
Distance: 5.7 km
Ascent: 823 m Descent: 823 m
Duration:08:15 h
Lowest point:1959 m
Highest point:2617 m
Best season
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Short description

The Pisciadù via ferrata is one of the most famous via ferratas in the Dolomites. The highlight is the crossing of the vertiginous suspension bridge to the Exner Tower at the end of the via ferrata.

Description

The highlight is the crossing of the vertiginous suspension bridge to the Exner Tower at the end of the via ferrata.

Starting point of the tour

Wengen

Destination of the tour

Pisciadù Hut

Route description

From Wengen you first take the car in the direction of Badia, where you can park your car halfway between the Grödnerjoch pass and Kolfuschg. From the car park, mountaineers walk eastwards and enter the via ferrata at the first steep turn. Well secured with a helmet and via ferrata harness, the route is not too difficult until the main part of the via ferrata, which is quite exposed and breezy, but is absolutely no problem if you have some climbing experience.

If you do get cold feet, you should leave the via ferrata at the Schroffenkessel via the emergency exit and reach the Pisciadù hut via ferrata tracks. If you follow the via ferrata, you go up to the right over vertical and well-secured rocks to the Brunecker tower and on to the daring suspension bridge to the Exner tower. After a few minutes, you arrive at the Pisciadù hut.

You can either return through the Val de Mesdi or take path no. 666 to the north-west and descend steeply through the Val Setùs valley to the starting point.

Trail sign

666

Equipment

Climbing shoes, hiking boots, helmet, via ferrata harness, wind and rain protection, sunglasses

Public transport

Trains stop at the railway station in Klausen or Bruneck, bus connection to Wengen/La Val

Directions

Brenner motorway A22, exit Klausen, state road (SS 242d) to Gröden, Grödnerjoch pass; Kolfuschg to Pederoa/Wengen. Brenner motorway A22, exit Brixen/Pustertal, direction Pustertal state road (SS 49) to St. Lorenzen/Bruneck, turn off Val Badia/Gadertal (state road SS 244), Wengen/La Val.

Parking

Parking halfway between Grödnerjoch and Kolfuschg

Type of trail

Length 5.7 km

Author

Editorial office south-tirol.com

Alta Badia

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