Gruppo: Alpi Carniche

La Ferrata Senza Confini sale al Cellon (Creta di Collinetta), al Passo di Monte Croce Carnico, sul confine tra Italia e Austria. È una via molto impegnativa, verticale, esposta e fisica, da evitare se non ben allenati e abituati all'esposizione, ma di forte interesse storico: l'itinerario consente di percorrere anche una lunga galleria bellica della Prima Guerra Mondiale. La vetta della Creta di Collinetta tocca i 2241 m.

Starting point the Passo di Monte Croce Carnico (1360 m), reachable in about 40' from Tolmezzo (Udine) to the SS 52b. Open road signs on Google Maps. L' itinerary begins in Austrian territory and falls from Italian territory. After passing the customs, on the western side of the pass, the CAI path towards the Crete of Collinetta; one ignores a first sign for the Without Confini on the left continuing straight towards the Gallery and the Canalone Steinbergerweg. After about 15' at a crossroads the sinistra is held steeply uphill towards the Schulter Gallery; a first steep stretch equipped with rope leads to war settlements and all' entrance of the Gallery of the Cellon (1541 m, about 30'). The gallery rises about 110 m of altitude difference on almost 200 m of development: steep interior, wet and slippery rock, equipped with rope for the whole length and with some brackets in the più traits; I'm sorry. It comes out in a little less than 30' from a narrow slit, you go through a stretch equipped and you reach a counterfeit war (1h from the parking lot). Keeping the right towards the top and, at a second crossroads marked on rock, still the left (on the right goes to the Steinbergerweg), continue between grass, mooring and stone up to a evident dihedron/fenditure diagonal where the ferrata begins, without tags (1h 30' from the parking lot).

L' attack è about 4 meters from the ground and must be reached climbing free on passages supported with good hooks. I took the cable, climb rocks leaning with some easy leap, then bend right into a channel at whose end the cable turns abruptly vertically at the base of a lungo, challenging and diedro plane: the plate è poor of natural hooks and equipped with distant brackets among themselves, which oblige a certain traction on the cable; ldisplay&39; Exit from the dihedron and move left on a challenging passage, you arrive on the ridge, plane, with view on the step. They follow più passages; easy that soon return on medium-difficult levels: tilted plates first to the left then to the right of the crest, an exposed edge and some diagonal plates to face in adherence and with good force of arms. At a c' framed rock; ` a first overhanging pass equipped only with rope, requiring agilità and strength; più forward a second strapiombo, initially with metal steps, then a diedron and a well-graded fireplace, both climbed on the left side. A stretch of crest supported with mughi invites you to rest; faithfully resumes the ridge, air, up to the book of signatures and a last dihedron, beyond which the equipment ends. A ridge path leads to some barracks of the Great War and a crossroads (2103 m, 1h 30' ); from here it rises to the summit of the Crete of Collinetta (2241 m, 20' from the end of the ferrata, about 3h totali), with metal cross and memorial plaque.

Athletic and difficult to test: little climbing for long stretches, with individual high-level passages leading to a strong traction on the cable. It runs in part parallel to a historic Friulian climbing route (Mazzilis and De Infanti).

GPS tracks (GPX and KMZ); the map of the Central Carnic Alps is useful for the area. The words "Creta di Collinetta" and "Cellon" are used indistinctly.

You return to the crossroads reached at the end of the ferrata and you go right on the path 147, Italian side, cutting horizontally; then along the mule track you rejoin the path dell' approach and return to the parking lot (1h 30' from the summit, 4h 30' totali).

The itinerary shares approach and return with the neighbor Ferrata Steinbergerweg, assessable as a downhill option for experienced hikers. In Carnia, more south of the pass, the Path equipped Cuestalta and, reachable via Rifugio Romanin, la Ferrata del Coglians; further south, in the province of Udine, the Cassiopea al Torrione Comici, la 50° of the Clap e la Ferrata at the Clap Varmost.