Ristorante Pietofana - Rifugio Pomedes

Access to starting point:
Access from Gorenjska: Via the border crossings Rateče or Predel to Trbiž / Tarvisio and then continue on the highway in the direction of Vidma / Udine to the exit Tolmezzo. From Tolmezzo we follow the road in the direction of the village Ampezzo and the mountain pass Passo della Mauria. The road then descends and brings us to a crossroads, where we continue left (possible also right) in the direction of Cortina d'Ampezzo. At all next crossroads we follow the signs for Cortina d'Ampezzo.
In Cortina d'Ampezzo we then follow the signs for the alpine pass Passo di Falzarego. We follow this ascending road to a crossroads where a narrower road towards the restaurant Pietofana and hut Col Druscie branches off to the right. The crossroads is located in the lower part of the road towards the pass Passo Falzarego. At the mentioned crossroads we continue right and follow the asphalt road all the way to a larger parking lot at the restaurant Pietofana.
From Primorska: We drive on the highway towards Venice / Venezia. At Portogruaro we leave the highway towards Venice and continue right on the highway towards Pordenone. At the next highway junction near Conegliano we continue right towards Belluno. Near Belluno the highway ends, and in the next crossroads we continue in the direction of Cortina d'Ampezzo. Further we follow the above description.

Path description:
From the parking lot we continue on the asphalt road and then turn left onto the macadam road following the signs «Rifugio Pomedes, Forcella Ra Valles». The macadam road, which is closed to traffic, starts to ascend and quickly brings us to a marked junction, where the path towards the notch Forcella Ra Valles branches off to the right.
At the junction we continue straight on the road, which brings us out of the forest alongside the ski slope. Here we ascend alongside the cableway for some time, then the road turns left across the ski slope. When the road crosses the ski slope, pay attention because here our path branches off to the right onto the ski slope. The trail on the ski slope is initially quite poorly visible and brings us again to the right side of the cableway. Further, the path continues relatively steeply ascending on the ski slope, all the time running slightly to the right of the cableway. The quite steep ski slope slowly turns to the left; later when we come near the hut Rifugio Duca d'Aosta it becomes gentler.
Here from the ski slope we turn left and only some easy walking remains to the hut from which there is a nice view towards the mountains above Cortina d'Ampezzo.
From the hut we continue on the ski slope that runs on the left side of the cableway. To the left a transverse path towards the hut Dibona branches off, while we continue further on the ski slope, which soon becomes quite steep. Grassy slopes are replaced by sand, due to which some caution is needed on a few spots. Then the path becomes less steep and a view opens towards the hut Pomedes. Here the path turns slightly to the right towards the cableway and only a short ascent to the hut follows.
To the hut Rifugio Pomedes we can also arrive by chairlift.

On the way: Rifugio Duca d'Aosta (2098m)

Trip can be extended to: Rifugio Ra Valles (1 h 45 min) , Punta Anna , Cima Formenton (3 h 20 min) , Bivacco Baracca degli Alpini (3 h 30 min) , Torre Aglio , Tofana di Dentro , Tofana di Mezzo (5 h 50 min)