Today we start at the Rifugio Angelo Dibona (last week we parked on the main road and walked up to this, but this time we drove up). We follow the descent route from the cave and join the main trail under the massive wall of the Tofana di Rozes towards Lagazuoi. Note for future years: there are at least a couple of quite popular climbing routes starting not far from the scree ramp to the cave.
Following the path around the corner we get views across towards Lagazuoi (not visible behind the Col dei Bos) and down to the Forcella Col dei Bos. At the pass we end up in the middle of a large (!) group of loud (!) French hikers, so we stop for an early food break to let them get ahead. Nice views down into the Val Travenanzes from here (we were at the very bottom of this on the waterfall hike). After the break we follow the trail down, down into the valley. There's loads of WWI stuff left in here too. Down, down we go, into the trees, past the Malga Travenanzes hut (where we end up back in the large French group again) and then down further to where the bottom of the valley is a broad river plane. Here we turn off to the right (thankfully the group continues down the valley) and make a bit of a 180 to start to head back up towards the Tofana di Rozes. Up, up we go, taking another food break and enjoying the sun and the views, and then up some more. Around a corner and more steeply up to come into the awesome rock and gravel filled bowl below and between the Tofana di Mezzo and the Tofana di Rozes. We see plenty of folks on the way down from the Tofana di Rozes crossing the gravel slope above us. Very enjoyable hiking up through this and then we're at the Rifugio Giussani. Lots of people here, so we just continue on through the pass and start the descent down, down on a broad trail towards the Rif. Dibona. We do a last food break once we get out of the wind and into the sun and then follow the trail the rest of the way down, down to the hut (much better weather than last time, so there's no compulsion to stop and get out of the rain) and the car.
Very nice hiking in varied and spectacular landscapes.
Stats: 6:05, 14.9 km, ~1150m up and down
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