Tofana III seen from its N ridge, few metres above Bivacco Formenton, an old shelter of the war where you can comfortably spend the night - a highly recommended experience.
The best is to climb from the north through Ra Ola, which I dub the mother of all Dolomitic scree slopes, at the same time located in a superb frame of mountains. Your (non-negligible) efforts are rewarded when you reach the saddle at the top, where you find a very beautiful WW1 building, Ricovero Franceschini-Dòmini, which you barely tell apart from the nearby rock wall. After a panoramic rock band, the crossing of a scenic rock window gives access to a steep section with fixed ropes: at this point the Bivacco is already looking down from high above. From there, the summit ascent is easily achieved by the ridge which you see in the panorama.
Since this is one of my favourite ascents, I chose to do it in 2007 when cycling home from Sylt and the Tatras. In that occasion, I performed the whole traverse Tofana III - Tofana II - Tofana I, which followed by a return through the unique Val Travenanzes yields a truly superb loop.
This time, with Edoardo (find him in the image, and find his Pamir and Tienshan panos on PPH), snow and limited time did not allow a full repetition, but the loop which you find in the linked GPS track should be rewarding nevertheless.
11 HF, Canon G1X, 28 mm equiv, 1/1000 sec, f/5.6
Large: https://goo.gl/1CD8G5
GPS track: http://www.wikiloc.com/wikiloc/view.do?id=23311624
B. B., Michael B., Sebastian Becher, Michael Bodenstedt, Alvise Bonaldo, Klaus Brückner, Hans-Jörg Bäuerle, Gerhard Eidenberger, Fabrizio Foppiani, Felix Gadomski, Johannes Ha, Manfred Hainz, Stefan Huber, Thomas Janeck, Martin Kraus, Daniel Krähmer, Giuseppe Marzulli, Werner Maurer, Gianluca Moroni, Wolfgang Pessentheiner, M. R., Danko Rihter, Patrick Runggaldier, Walter Schmidt, Christoph Seger, Michael Strasser, Kathrin Teubl, Jens Vischer
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Comments
At what time did you take the picture? Later on the weather changed, didn't it? I was farther west and it was "so lala".
Now I see if people are interested; in case I will add further information.
Cheers, Alberto.
Herzlichst Christoph
Gruss Walter
Ciao, Alvise
In cima c'era anche uno che aveva rinunciato all'Antelao, dato che le Laste non avevano affatto un aspetto invitante.
Il nostro anello era: Cadoris - Ra Ola - Franceschini Domini - Formenton - Tofana III - Ra Valles - Ra Zesta - Posporcora - Cadoris.
Ra Ola in salita è sempre una bella avventura!
Saluti, Alberto.
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