Selva / Wolkenstein Vallunga - Piz de Puez / Puezspitz

Access to starting point:
A) Access from Gorenjska: Through the Karawanks Tunnel, we drive to Avstria, and then we continue driving towards Spittal and forward towards Lienz (a little after Spittal highway ends). Further, we drive on a relatively nice and wide road through Drau valley, which brings us in Italy. The road further leads past settlements Dobbiaco / Toblach, Brunico / Brunec, Brixen / Bressanone, to town Chiusa / Klausen, where we turn left towards Val Gardena. Past Ortisei / St. Ulirch and St. Christina we drive to the village Selva di Gardena / Wolkenstein. In the village we turn left and after a kilometer we drive to the parking lot in front of valley Vallunga / Langental (parking fee).
B) From Primorska side: From Nova Gorica, we drive to Italy and drive forward on the highway to Portogruaro, where at the highway junction we turn in the direction of Belluno. We follow the highway to its end (we don't turn in the direction towards Belluno), and then we continue driving towards Cortina d'Ampezzo. When we get into Cortina d'Ampezzo, we follow the signs for Alpine mountain pass Passo Falzarego. On the mountain pass Passo Falzarego (2105 m) we turn right towards the neighbouring mountain pass Passo Valparola (2192 m), from there we descend into the valley Val Badia. Here we turn left and through Corvara through the mountain pass Gardena we descend in Selva di Gardena / Wolkenstein. In the village we turn right and after a kilometer we get to the parking lot in front of valley Vallunga / Langental (parking fee).

Path description:
We start walking at big wooden fence at the beginning of the valley Vallunga / Langental. The path through the valley is partly through the forest and partly through meadows only slightly ascending, so we can observe vertical walls of plateau Stevia and Puez on one and plateau Chedul on the other side. We stick to the path number 14. After a good half an hour we come to a crossing, where we continue straight through the valley (left variant to the mountain hut Puez / Puez hütte / Riffugio Puez). We cross wide mountain pasture (water). The path narrows, turns right in gable and becomes a little steeper. We are ascending by the stream in a crumbly gravel gully. Left over slopes falling a waterfall Puez. After narrowness at the crossing, where originates stream, we continue left (path number 14) in the direction of the mountain hut Puez (water). The path steeply rises on extensive grassy steepness below the walls, below which on again more gentle path we cross to the left. Next follows a steep ascent to the mountain hut Puez, which stands on extensive plateau (water). To here we needed a little less than two hours.
From the mountain hut, we continue on a path number 14 towards the summit. In zig-zags we ascend over a grassy slope on a rocky ridge. The path crosses above the mountain pasture Puez, below the walls of the peak Col du Puez (2725 meters), to groove (water), where we without problems ascend on a wide saddle between the main and eastern peak. We continue left (right unmarked path on Col de Puez (2725 meters)) and at first over grassy, after that crumbly gravel slope we steeply ascend into a wide gully. Steepness doesn't decrease all the way to a small saddle, where the path turns left. In few minutes we are on the summit Pic Puez / Puezspitze (2913 meters).

On the way: parkirišče Vallunga (1608m), planina Vallunga (1803m), razcep nad slapom Puez (2088m), koča Puez (2475m), sedlo med Col de Puez in Pic du Puez (2614m), Pic Puez (2913m)