Rifugio Guido Lorenzi
| Rifugio Guido Lorenzi | ||
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 Mountain station in the Forcella Staunies and Rif. Lorenzi from the Via ferrata Marino Bianchi |
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| location | above the Forcella Staunies; Belluno , Italy ; Valley location: Cortina d'Ampezzo | |
| Mountain range | Cristallo group , Dolomites | |
| Geographical location: | 46 ° 34 '58 .9 " N , 12 ° 11' 36.9" E | |
| Altitude | 2932 m slm | |
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| owner | Private | |
| Built | 1959 | |
| Usual opening times | closed since the end of July 2016 | |
| accommodation | 0 beds, 25 camps , 2 emergency camps | |
| Winter room | No | |
The Rifugio Guido Lorenzi (short Rifugio Lorenzi , German Lorenzihütte ) is a private refuge in the Cristallo group in the Belluno Dolomites above Cortina d'Ampezzo . It is one of the highest huts in the Dolomites.
Location and surroundings
The Rifugio Lorenzi is located at 2932 m slm a few meters above the Forcella Staunies ( 2918 m ) on the northwest ridge of the Cima di Mezzo . To the west the ridge continues to the Cristallino d'Ampezzo . The hut with a large sun terrace is nestled against a ledge on which a cross several meters high commemorates the mountain war . It is located in the Ampezzo Dolomites Nature Park .
history
After the site had been right on the front line in World War I , it was selected as a construction site for a tourist base in the 1950s. The hut opened on July 1, 1959, just above the mountain station of the gondola lift to the Forcella Staunies, which was built for the 1956 Winter Olympics . The initiator of the hut construction was Beniamino Franceschi, a member of the Ampezzaner alpine organization Scoiattoli di Cortina . The name goes back to Guido Lorenzi (1929-1956), a talented mountaineer who, alongside Lino Lacedelli and Luigi Ghedina, was involved in the first ascent of the Cima Scotoni southwest face in 1952. In 1956 he was killed in a carpenter accident. In 1974/75 the hut was renovated . Today it is owned by Franceschi's heirs.
In 2011, the 40-year operating license for the gondola lift that supplied the Rifugio Lorenzi expired. After the last extension of the deadline for cable car operations expired at the end of July 2016 and the cable car ceased operations, the Rifugi Berti also closed its doors. In February 2018 a project for a new cable car was presented, also with a view to an Olympic candidacy from Cortina d'Ampezzo for the Olympic Winter Games 2026 .
Tours
The ascent to the Rifugio Lorenzi takes place through the rubble channel of the Grava Staunies and is extremely difficult because of the loose scree . Most mountaineers therefore made use of the gondola that went up from Son Forca . The ascent from Capanna Rio Gero ( 1698 m ) below Passo Tre Croci takes a good four hours on foot .
The hut served as the starting point for three popular climbing routes (Vie ferrate):
- The Via ferrata Marino Bianchi ( difficulty C / D ) starts directly on the sun terrace and takes 1½ hours over the northwest ridge to the Cima di Mezzo . You should avoid this trail if there is icing or fresh snow.
- The Sentiero Ivano Dibona ( B ) begins at the mountain station in the Forcella Staunies and leads over the Cresta Bianca along war positions westwards. Depending on the way down, it takes around 6 hours from the hut into the valley.
- The Sentiero ferrato Renato De Pol ( C ) branches off from the Dibona path and leads through the northwestern Cristallo group towards Pian del Forame . From the hut you can expect about 5½ hours.
The last two climbs mentioned are almost exclusively climbed in the descent.
In the last decades of operation, the system in the Scharte was operated as a double chairlift in winter , and the operating equipment was laboriously replaced by hand at the end of the season. The reason for this was the construction of a middle station, which in winter was used to give skiers access to the lower part of the descent, which is less difficult and, unlike the high part of the saddle, is safe to ski most of the winter. The intermediate station required getting out at full speed via a ramp into the gap, which was only possible from armchairs, but not from the gondolas installed in summer. The departure Staunies Vertical Ski was up to 64 percent slope the steepest downhill in association Dolomiti Superski . For the less experienced there was the possibility of leaving the lift at the middle station.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Rifugio Lorenzi. (No longer available online.) CAI Veneto , archived from the original on March 26, 2016 ; Retrieved April 17, 2016 (Italian). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Il Tar respinge il ricorso per Staunies. Chiude anche il rifugio Lorenzi. In: corrierealpi.gelocal.it/belluno. July 26, 2016, accessed July 13, 2018 (Italian).
- ↑ Cortina d'Ampezzo, in arrivo il progetto per la funifor sulla Forcella Staunies. In: scimarche.it. February 5, 2018, accessed July 13, 2018 (Italian).
- ↑ Horst Höfler & Paul Werner: Via ferrata in the Dolomites. With the Vicentine Alps, Brenta and Lake Garda mountains. Bergverlag Rother , Munich 2000, pp. 120-125. ISBN 3-7633-3096-8 .
- ^ "Staunies" vertical ski. (No longer available online.) Faloria SpA, archived from the original on April 18, 2016 ; accessed on April 16, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
