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Alta Via Stage 6.

Saturday 26th August 2023

Rifugio Averau to Rifugio Passo Staulanza

Distance	Time		Elevation in meters
Km	Elapsed Hrs-Mins	Moving Hrs-Mins	Gain	Loss	Min	Max
17.7	9H12	7H00 (*)	655	1,302	1,770	2,417

Map courtsey of Garmin

Base map courtesy of Tabacco Maps

Elevation diagram courtesy of Garmin

The obligatory selfie before we departed Rifugio Averau

The faint mountain centre left background is Pelmo

We are going downhill for a change! Thank the Lord!

Fifty minutes to Rifugio Passo Giau on the 452

Its a long and winding road .......

Looking back to Averau (1.5 km in 43 minutes to this point)

Averau, with Rifugio Averau just visible on the col.

Approaching Passo Giau, with Pelmo in the background again. (2.4 km in 1H07 to this point)

Tree, Rock........ Rock,Tree

Dropping down to Passo Giau

Don't forget to look back! This is Ra Gusela 2,595m

Rifugio Passo Giau

Passo Giau is a mecca for hot bikers who love to scream around the hairpin bends

Chiesa di San Giovanni Gualberto

We were headed to Rifugio Citta di Fiume and Passo Staulanza on the 467

Looking back towards Passo Giau as we continued on our way

I'm cow #37462, pleased to meet you!
Pleased to make your acquaintance, my name is Michael.
Very formal these Italian cows!

5.83 km 3H06 to this point

6.48 km 3H41 to this point

The Man of Mondeval

During a campaign of archaeological excavation to Mondeval de Sora, at 2.150 metres above sea level, which was promoted by Vittorino Cazzetta in 1987, a Mesolithic burial site was found. Under a shelter made out of a boulder, a hunter among the last representatives of the type Cro-Magnons who lived about 7,500 years ago was buried with all its rich belongings, just under the floor of a hut set up by Mesolithic hunters, believed to have been in the site from nearly 10,000 years ago.

The perfect preservation of the skeleton and other organic findings is already an exceptional event, due to the high altitude where if was found when normally only flint is preserved. The comprehensive presentation and the remains of the meal gave answers to many questions about the Mesolithic hunters, of which up to forty years ago, their presence in these high mountains was still unknown. The skeleton is still subject of scientific studies aimed at a better understanding the way of life of these hunter-gatherers. The next casual discoveries of the burial sites of Val Rosna and of the Mummy of the Similaun, have confirmed the presence and attendance, anything but sporadic, in the Alpine region by prehistoric men.