Rifugio Carè Alto

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Rifugio Carè Alto - Dante Ongari SAT refuge  category  D
location	Bus del Gat; Trentino , Italy ; Valley location:  Pelugo
Mountain range	Adamello group
Geographical location:	46 ° 6 '27.3 "  N , 10 ° 37' 33.9"  E Coordinates: 46 ° 6 '27.3 "  N , 10 ° 37' 33.9"  E
Altitude	2459  m slm
builder	Private
owner	SAT
Built	1911-1912
Construction type	Refuge
Usual opening times	Mid-June to mid-September
accommodation	82 beds, 0  camps
Winter room	8 beds
Web link	www.carealto.it

The Rifugio Carè Alto - Dante Ongari or just Rifugio Carè Alto (German Carè-Alto hut ) is a refuge of the Trentino Alpine Association (SAT).

Location and surroundings

The Rifugio Carè Alto is located at the end of the Val di Borzago on a rocky promontory, called Bus del Gat , in the municipality of Pelugo in the province of Trento at 2459  m slm

The refuge is located directly to the east of the Carè Alto summit 3456  m slm , which separates the Val di Conca from the Val di Niscli at the upper end of the Val di Borzago. It is the ideal starting point for climbing the Carè Alto and its secondary peaks and a base for visiting the Austro-Hungarian summit cavern from the First World War on the Corno di Cavento, which was freed from the ice between 2007 and 2010 .

history

In 1911 a group of alpinists from Val Rendena decided to build a hut at the foot of the Carè Alto and founded the SARCA ( Società Alpinisti Rifugio Carè Alto ) for this purpose . The new refuge was officially opened on September 8, 1912, even after financial support from the Trentino mountaineering association SAT.

War chapel at the Rifugio Carè Alto

During the mountain war raging between 1915 and 1918 , the Austro-Hungarian army built a whole barrack town around the rifugio, including a field hospital and its own power station. The warehouse was supplied with the help of 5 material ropeways . The rifugio itself was converted into an officers' mess and named after the commander of the Carè Alto front section, Ludwig von Kann-Horak Edler von Höhenkamp , the Kann-Horak-Haus. In 1917 Russian prisoners of war built a small chapel in the immediate vicinity, which still exists today, while only some of the foundations of the former barracks town have been preserved.

At the beginning of the 1920s, the SAT acquired the hut for a symbolic price of 700 lire. After the Second World War , the Rifugio was repaired again at the instigation of the engineer, mountaineer and local researcher Dante Ongari , who came from the Rendenatal and who also paid for the costs, and was named after him as a thank you.

From 1986 the original cube-shaped building was completely renovated and expanded, and after a two-year construction period it was reopened in the summer of 1988.

Accesses

• From Pian della Sega in Val di Borzago, 1250 m ⊙ on path 213 (3 hours 30 minutes)
• From Borzago, 655 m ⊙ on road (7 km) then path 213 (6 hours)

Transitions

• To Rifugio Val di Fumo , 1918 m ⊙ on path 222 in 4 hours 30 minutes
• To Rifugio Ai Caduti dell'Adamello , 3040 m ⊙ on path 215 and glacier in 6 hours
• To Rifugio Trivena , 1650 m ⊙ on paths 222, 224, 225, 261 and 223 in 7 hours
• To Vigo Rendena , 627 m ⊙ on path 222, 224 and road in 5 hours
• To Ponte del Casol in Val di Genova, 1012 m ⊙ on path 215 in 5 hours 30 minutes

Mountaineering

• Carè Alto , 3462 m ⊙ 4 hours
• Corno di Cavento , 3632 m ⊙ 4 hours
• Monte Coel (also Monte Cel), 2870 m ⊙ 3 hours

literature

• Achille Gadler, Mario Corradini: Rifugi e bivacchi nel Trentino. Panorama, Trento 2003, ISBN 978-88-87118-40-7 .
• Società degli Alpinisti Tridentini - Sezione del CAI - Commissione Sentieri: … per sentieri e luoghi. Sui monti del Trentino. 5 Presanella, Adamello, Dolomiti di Brenta. Euroedit, Trento 2017, ISBN 978-88-941381-3-9 .

Web links

Commons : Rifugio Carè Alto  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Rifugio Carè Alto - "Dante Ongari" , website of the Società degli Alpinisti Tridentini

Individual evidence

1. ↑ To the summit cavern on the Cavento with photos and video (in Italian), accessed on July 11, 2017
2. ^ Società degli Alpinisti Tridentini - Sezione del CAI - Commissione Sentieri: … per sentieri e luoghi. Sui monti del Trentino. 5 Presanella, Adamello, Dolomiti di Brenta p. 323
3. ↑ On the history of the Rifugio Carè Alto (Kann-Horak-Haus) accessed on July 11, 2017
4. ↑ Short Biography Dante Ongari (in Italian) Retrieved on July 11, 2017
5. ^ Società degli Alpinisti Tridentini - Sezione del CAI - Commissione Sentieri: … per sentieri e luoghi. Sui monti del Trentino. 5 Presanella, Adamello, Dolomiti di Brenta p. 324