Day 8 - The Troi dei Caserin

August 27, 2025

Route of the day

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A damp morning

Today the final part of Alta Via 2 begins. We are entering the Vette Feltrine, a part that is perhaps less well-known by tourists, but no less beautiful. The trails we’ll have to walk are going to be narrow, often steep.

The weather forecasts for the day are not great, but we should reach Rifugio Boz (1718 meters on sea level) before it starts raining. For now there is just a thick fog, and the weather is unpleasantly hot and humid.

Our last sight of Rifugio Cereda and the Pala Group.

We leave at 7:45. At first we walk on a secondary paved road, then on a dirt road. Both my guide booklet and the signs try to make us walk downhill towards the nearby villages of Matiuz and Padreterno, but there is a clearly faster road that stays in the forest and leads to the start of the actual trail.

The top sign is marked as "AV2", for Alta Via 2. There is a gap that was probably filled by a sign pointing left, which is the way we took. I suspect someone - perhaps the local forest authorities - removed the sign because they did not want people to go that way, but I can't imagine why. Or perhaps the sign simply fell off.

After about one hour of walk in the forest, the actual trail begins. The humidity is very intense, still unpleasant. Unfortunately this also means that the pictures of the day are very… foggy.

The valley behind us, in the fog.

L’Intaiàda

The trail becomes steep, and then extremely steep. We walk along a vertical wall of granite, where a narrow passage is carved out. Indeed, this part of the trail is called L’Intaiàda, which can be roughly translated as The Carved-Out.

Admittedly not the best picture of L'Intaiàda.

The trail continues, narrow and exposed, but well equipped with some sturdy metal ropes where needed. It requires some attention, but I don’t find it scary or particularly difficult; there is always some rock or support piece I can hang on to rest while I think about the next steps.

Another section of L'Intaiàda.

The trail continues very steep, and at 12:05 we reach the Pass del Comedon (2130m).

View from the pass.

A quick break at Bivacco Feltre

From the pass we walk down an extremely steep trail, initially very exposed, then less scary.

My left knee has been doing well so far, but suddently I feel an acute sting of pain that almost makes loose my balance. This is not good. It is also very different from the constant, mild to moderate pain that I have felt when walking downhill in the past few days. But I push through, slowly and steadily.

The fog becomes even thicker, at times we can’t see much farther than 20-30 meters.

We are close to Bivacco Feltre, but we can't see it.

For a brief moment I catch a glimpse of Bivacco Feltre (1930m), a sheet metal shelter where hikers can wait for the bad weather to subside, or spend the night in case of need.

Bivacco Feltre.

We reach the bivouac at 13:05, and we decide to take a break. We eat a protein bar and refill our water bottles. Unfortunately, we can see literally nothing besides the meadow around us, and the fog.

Our view from Bivacco Feltre. The guide book describes the place as "pleasant and majestic". I guess I'll have to trust them on this one.

We need some rest, but we don’t want to wait for too long. The journey is still long, and if we don’t reach our destination before 17:00 we will probably be caught by the forecasted thunderstorm. We leave the bivouac at 13:30.

The Troi dei Caserin

From the shelter we walk down, loosing about 200 or 300 meters of altitude. We quickly gain them back, as the trail continues upwards. The fog is still very thick, we can’t see further than 10m.

The trail so far is not particuarly hard, but there are some interesting passages where we have to cross some waterfalls and some small water streams. Or maybe I found them interesting only because my bad knee prevented me from pushing with my left leg and I had to make some complex alternative manouvers.

At 14:50 we reach Col dei Bech (1960m), which means Ibex’ hill. And in fact, just after Cold dei Bech, in one of the rare moments when the fog let us see at more than 15 meters, we did see a small family of chamois. Ok, not quite ibex, but close enough. Judging from the quantity of warm shit that we saw on the trail, they had probably walked right ahead of us for a while.

We continue on this trail that becomes increasingly narrow and exposed, difficult in some sections. We are on the Troi dei Caserin (“the Caserins’ trail”).

There are some steel ropes in the most dangerous parts, but not for long: soon we reach a grassy section, and the trail becomes ever more narrow. On our left, the emptiness of a hundred-meters free fall is hidden by the fog. My aching knee makes everything even more challenging.

We did not take many pictures of this part of the journey, mainly because we were focusing on keeping our feet on the ground. Apparently, my dad and I walked this same trail some 15 years ago, when it was covered in half a meter of snow. And I say apparently because, even though we both remember that trip quite well, we have no recollection of taking such a dangerous path in those conditions. But there is no alternative road, so we must have done it… somehow.

At 16:45 we reach Pass de Mura (1867m). The view opens up, but we can’t quite see our destination yet.

You see the tiny building down there? It is not Rifugio Boz, but Malga Neva. Luckily for us, the Rifugio is closer than that.

We walk down from the pass and we reach Rifugio Boz (1718m) at 17:05. Just as we walk through the door, a strong storm begins.

At Rifugio Boz

We are tired, hungry and our muscles are sore. As we check in, the hut manager asks us if we are walking the Alta Via. We respond that yes, we are, and tomorrow we will be going all the way to Rifugio Dal Piaz, and we’ll finally walk down victorious to Croce d’Aune in the evening.

“Are you sure about that?” - she says.

“Why?” - we ask, not sure if she was joking or not.

“Have you seen the weather forecast?"