Piz Casnil

Difficult
3.3 km
4:30 h
643 mhd
179 mhd
Capanna dell'Albigna
Seilbahn Albigna

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Piz Casnil
From the Pass da Casnil you can climb by means of easy scrambling over solid granite blocks to the beautiful rock pyramid of the homonymous Piz Casnil.
Technique /6
Fitness 6/6
Highest Point  3189 m
Lowest Point  2332 m
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Start
Albigna hut
Destination
Piz Casnil
Coordinates
46.329853, 9.655174

Details

Description

However, you need experience to climb the right route. From the height of the summit you can enjoy an excellent view of all the surrounding mountains. Only suitable for experienced hikers with good local knowledge .

Geheimtipp

For those who do not know the area to be accompanied by a mountain guide 

Overnight stay in the Hut

Sicherheitshinweis

Difficulty: WB / The ascent is made first through a gully with loosened rock, after which the most strenuous part follows. One climbs on a crooked track between boulders and slabs (difficulty level II); numerous cairns. A rope may be useful. Marking blue-white until the pass, in the last stretch not present, but numerous cairns show the way.

Ausrüstung

Mountain boots, sticks, eventually a rope

Directions

You follow the route up the Pass da Casnil until just before the top of the pass, where the path leaves the rocky rib to traverse towards the southern crossing of the pass. It is exactly at this point that you leave the path and turn left. You go past the foot of the rise between the two pass crossings over a gentle firn field. At the northern pass, which is occupied by a small lake, one continues straight on between boulders towards a gully that sits in the left part of the rock triangle above. Further up, one climbs over rocks. One should follow the passage tracks and pay attention to various cairns as signposts; in stretches by climbing between ordered boulders and easy slabs (grade II), one thus reaches the highest peak (3189 m). The descent follows the same route.

Directions

Public Transport

from Pranzaira by cableway to the Albigna dam

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