Perhaps a few more word should be useful for this route:
- After you descend down from down from Pian dei Fiacconi (2626m) to about 2460m, you reach the glacier below Forcella della Marmolada. It has no crevasses and is not steep. So you don't need crampons (in normal conditions), because below the Forcella ferrata already starts.
- For the ferrata you need the usual equipment. There's a lot of traffic and on some places stones are falling. Also the ferrata is exposed on some places.
- There's some 400-450m of ferrata and the last 50-100m of snow ridge.
If I'm not mistaken there are crevasses on this glacier as well, on the right hand side. We needed to use crampons at the beginning of September - I would recommend bringing them with you.
Just to confirm dmiki's words.
You need a crampons for that little glacier. I have been there in the end of september and the glacier was almost melted, but you still couldn't pass it without the crampons.
And it would be good that the maintainer of this page adds also an alternative names of this ferrata. Hanns-Seiffert-Weg ferrata is same as via ferrata Cresta Ovest, as via ferrata della Marmolada.
I climb and hike in Val di Fassa since 25 years. I climbed Punta Penia by this via ferrata when I was still a teen, but... I never heard the name Hanns-Seiffert-Weg before!
The correct name is Via Ferrata Cresta Ovest (West ridge), Westgrat-Klettersteig for german speaking people, but Hanns-Seiffert-Weg... Never heard!
Vid Pogachnik - Aug 7, 2004 6:14 am - Voted 7/10
Route CommentPerhaps a few more word should be useful for this route:
- After you descend down from down from Pian dei Fiacconi (2626m) to about 2460m, you reach the glacier below Forcella della Marmolada. It has no crevasses and is not steep. So you don't need crampons (in normal conditions), because below the Forcella ferrata already starts.
- For the ferrata you need the usual equipment. There's a lot of traffic and on some places stones are falling. Also the ferrata is exposed on some places.
- There's some 400-450m of ferrata and the last 50-100m of snow ridge.
dmiki - Sep 4, 2005 12:06 pm - Hasn't voted
Route CommentIf I'm not mistaken there are crevasses on this glacier as well, on the right hand side. We needed to use crampons at the beginning of September - I would recommend bringing them with you.
Vid Pogachnik - Sep 4, 2005 3:15 pm - Voted 7/10
Route CommentYou're right, dmiki! Now it's about time that the maintainer of this page puts this into the main description.
sich - Oct 2, 2006 12:13 pm - Voted 6/10
Re: Route CommentJust to confirm dmiki's words.
You need a crampons for that little glacier. I have been there in the end of september and the glacier was almost melted, but you still couldn't pass it without the crampons.
And it would be good that the maintainer of this page adds also an alternative names of this ferrata. Hanns-Seiffert-Weg ferrata is same as via ferrata Cresta Ovest, as via ferrata della Marmolada.
RenatoG - Jun 8, 2009 5:31 pm - Hasn't voted
Seiffert weg? Never Heard this name!I climb and hike in Val di Fassa since 25 years. I climbed Punta Penia by this via ferrata when I was still a teen, but... I never heard the name Hanns-Seiffert-Weg before!
The correct name is Via Ferrata Cresta Ovest (West ridge), Westgrat-Klettersteig for german speaking people, but Hanns-Seiffert-Weg... Never heard!