POZZA DI FASSA - VAL SAN NICOLÒ - JONTA - PAS PASCHÉ - CONTRIN REFUGE - ALBA DI CANAZEI

High-level hikes

Go up into the Val San Nicolò and walk as far as the waterfalls at 2,011 m (2 hrs 30). You can get refreshments nearby in the refuge with the same name. Now go on uphill and take path no. 609 for Pas Paschè when you come to it. Climb up out of the Jonta basin, which once was a glacial lake. You will pass a few wooden huts and a slope covered with rhododendrons. After a narrow gully you will come to the glacial Ombert Valley. Here the path moves to the left to cut across the base of the Col Ombert mountain, and then you will reach the Pas Pasché (2,494 m) (1 hour; 3 hrs 30).From here go down the Lasté de Contrin, and soon after the ruf de Cirele you will join up with path no. 607 from the Cirelle Pass.Now you go down into the Buja de Contrin (Contrin basin) and you cross one more stream. Then you will get to the Contrin refuge (1 hour; 4 hrs 30).Now you follow the Contrin valley all the way to Alba (Dèlba). The path is nearly flat as far as the Baita Locia Contrin (40 mins; 5 hrs 10), and the going is quite easy up to the end in the cabin-lift station at Alba (Dèlba) (35 mins; 5 hrs 45).