Fixed rope route "Merlone"

Cima Cadini Nordest, 2788 m - Cadinigroup

• Difficulty: medium
• Valuation of the tour: medium complexity
• Details of the via ferrata: 35% steel rope, 30% ladders, 35% exposed path
• Duration: ca. 5 hours
• Ascent and descent: 890m of altitude
• Ascent: ca. 1 ¾ hours
• Time on the via ferrata: ca. 2 hours (incl. descent over the via ferrata) – 280 m of altitude in ascent and descent
• Descent: ca. 1 ¼ hours (from the beginning of the via ferrata)
• Position: West

Difficulty and general information:
At the west-wall of Cima Cadini you have to cross exposed ladders.

Starting point:
We go to Dobbiaco, further to Misurina Lake and to Auronzo-Hut (direction Drei Zinnen). After 2 curves we trunurn right (sign: hut, parking place). Over way number 115 we go to Fondo Savio Hut (2367m).

Ascent:
We go down from the hut on path number 116 below the Cima Cadini Nordovest and to Cadin del Nevaio. Then we turn left (sign „Ferrata Merlone“).

Descent:
Back on the same way.