Kluže / Chiusaforte - Montusel (on pathi 427 and 427a)
Starting point: Kluže / Chiusaforte (397 m)
Path name: on pathi 427 and 427a
Time of walking: 3 h 45 min
Difficulty: partly demanding marked way, difficult pathless terrain
Difficulty of skiing: no data
Altitude difference: 1484 m
Altitude difference (by path): 1484 m
Map: Alpi Carniche Orientali Canal del Ferro; Foglio 18
Access to starting point:
A) From Kranjska Gora past Trbiž / Tarvisio, and on the old road towards Videm / Udine all the way to the parking lot by the main road about kilometer before the settlement Kluže / Chiusaforte and only about kilometer ahead from the settlement Dunja / Dogna.
B) From Nova Gorica or Sežana on Italian highway to Palmanova, here we choose direction Trbiž / Tarvisio to exit Carnia, then follow old main road towards Trbiž through Kluže / Chiusaforte for about kilometer and about 200 meters after the tunnel on the left is a parking lot.
Path description:
From the parking lot, we go by the road towards Kluže. After 200 meters we notice sharply right marked path number 417, we cross the road fence and we go on stairs on the path which through the forest shoulder partly in zig-zags, right less steep brings us in 50 minutes in hamlet Costamolino. We go over main part of hamlet, then left past houses and after hamlet right in the forest. After 5 minutes we come on the road, there about 500 meters, then again on the path which goes at first past the last house in hamlet, and past a meadow on the left side again in the forest. A little higher in the forest, we come to a crossing, we go right towards Montusel, towards which we are quite some time ascending partly in zig-zags through a pine forest of the eastern and southern slopes of the peak Plan de la Fratte. Higher, we come out of the forest, we cross southern slopes of Montusel on already occasionally narrower footpath, later path turns towards the notch below the summit, meanwhile we cross some smaller gullies, where careful step is needed, but the path isn't demanding. To notch 2 hours and a half from Costamolino.
Then follows 20 more minutes of ascent on grass towards the summit Montusel, where there aren't any blazes or a real path anymore. It is not too demanding, but the path is still slightly exposed and in case of a rain quite dangerous. The effort is rewarded by breathtaking view.
On the way: Costamolino (794m), Forcella del Montusel (1761m)
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