Plöckenpass - Cresta Verde / Grüne Schneid
Starting point: Plöckenpass (1360 m)
Starting point Lat/Lon: 46.6027°N 12.9447°E 
Time of walking: 2 h 10 min
Difficulty: easy marked way
Difficulty of skiing: no data
Altitude difference: 726 m
Altitude difference (by path): 735 m
Map: Tabacco 09 1:25.000
Access to starting point:
From Trbiž / Tarvisio we go on the highway towards Videm / Udine. We leave the highway at exit for Tolmezzo. Further, we follow the signs for Austria and mountain pass Passo di Croce Carnico / Plöckenpass. On Italian side of the mountain pass, we park on a large parking lot.
Path description:
At the parking lot, we go on a narrow road following the signs Rifuggio Marinelli (path 146). Already after few ten meters, we come to a crossroad where we go right on a military mule track on which we are then ascending through a thin forest and meadows below the steep slopes of the mountain Creta di Collinetta (2238m). Military mule track passes into a footpath and we soon come to a marked crossroad, where the path on Creta di Collinetta and on Cresta Verde branches off to the right.
We can already here go right towards Cresta Verde or we continue left towards the mountain hut Marinelli. If we continue left our path at first in a gentle ascent crosses grassy slopes and it brings us on a smaller plain. Here from the left joins an unmarked path from the mountain pasture Collinetta di Sotto, and only a little after that, we come to a marked crossing.
Left leads the path 146 towards the mountain hut Marinelli, and this time we go right on the path 147 towards the ridge Cresta Verde. A gently sloping path at first leads through mountain pasture and then it brings us below the steep rocky slope where we will also notice some military ruins. The path here starts ascending steeper on a grassy slope and also increasingly beautiful views starting to open up on surrounding peaks. The path is ascending mostly in zig-zags and a little higher from the right joins already mentioned path, which branches off from the path on Creta di Collinetta.
Further, we are all the time ascending on mostly grassy slope all the way to the ridge Cresta Verde where we will by the path again notice numerous military ruins from the time of the first world war. From the right here also joins the path from the peak Creta di Collinetta. On the ridge, we can then continue left to a saddle where joins also unmarked path from the Austrian side. And by the saddle there is quite a lot of military tunnels from the first world war.
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