Passo Valles → San Martino. Pale di San Martino, Friday 17 July
The Run · Stage 4 · Friday 17 July

Passo Valles → San Martino

The shortest stage, the highest point, and a gondola down to the finish.

Pale di San Martino
10.5kmDistance
+530mAscent
2,804mMax altitude
The line we took
Capanna Passo Valles / Passo Farangole (2,548m) / Rifugio Rosetta (2,581m) / Col Verde gondola ↓ / San Martino

Farangole first, then out onto the Rosetta plateau, a white limestone desert sitting at 2,600m, and the highest ground of the whole trip at 2,804m.

Down on the Col Verde gondola into San Martino di Castrozza. Four days, four huts, 103km and +4,510m behind us.

Private minibus to Bolzano, about an hour and a quarter. The bikes were where we left them.

The day in photographs
The route
Passo Valles → San Martino route map
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