Žabnice / Camporosso in Valcanale - Svete Višarje / Monte Lussari
Starting point: Žabnice / Camporosso in Valcanale (858 m)
Starting point Lat/Lon: 46.5044°N 13.5404°E
Time of walking: 2 h 30 min
Difficulty: easy marked way
Difficulty of skiing: easily
Altitude difference: 908 m
Altitude difference (by path): 910 m
Map: Julijske Alpe - zahodni del 1:50.000
Access to starting point:
Over the border crossing Rateče or border crossing Predel we drive to Trbiž / Tarvisio, and then we continue driving in the direction of Videm / Udine and settlement Žabnice / Camporosso in Valcanale. When Trbiž ends, only a little after store Eurospar (store is located on the right side of the road), still before the main roundabout, we turn left on street Via Lussari. Few 100 meters we drive on the mentioned street, and then we get to a smaller crossroad, from the crossroad we continue straight and after the crossroad, we park on a parking lot on the right side of the road. We park on the lower part of the parking lot, on the upper part the parking is prohibited with a traffic sign.
Path description:
From the starting point, we continue on for public traffic closed asphalt road which leads us past few more houses. Above the hamlet, the path leads past the information board, and then the asphalt ends. We continue on a macadam road which leads us through ditch Višarski graben, through which runs the stream Rio Lussari. Higher, the road changes into a wide cart track, and next to it Stations of the Cross show up.
Further, we are for some time ascending on a cart track, from which only occasionally a view opens up a little in the direction of Carnic Alps, where we clearly see Ojstrnik. Higher from the cart track we turn to the right on a marked footpath in the direction of Kamniti lovec / Cima del Cacciatore and Svete Višarje / Monte Lussari (straight on a cart track Višarska planina / Malga di Lussari). Next follows an ascent through the forest, at XIII. Station of the Cross we get very close to a ski slope and transport road.
We continue right on a footpath (on the road we can ascend to a saddle Višarsko sedlo / Sella Lussari and ahead on Kamniti lovec) and we diagonally ascend. Below the cableway, we continue left and then we follow the signs for Svete Višarje. A little further asphalted path is secured with a fence, and increasingly beautiful views opening up on the western Julian Alps, where there is the highest Montaž. When on the left side we bypass Beračni kugel / Monte Prasnig (peak on which brings us cableway), in few steps we descend to the road, and there we continue all the way to a hamlet and church on Svete Višarje.
From the church in a minute or two, we ascend also on peak Svete Višarje, where there stands a cross and from where a beautiful view opens up.
Description and pictures refer to a condition in the year 2017 (July).
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