On the Eastern Bank of Lake Pramollo (1528m a.s.l.), at the Foot of Creta di Pricot (2203m a.s.l., Cavallo Group) Which, as Often, Acts as an Orographic Barrier to the (High Pressure) Humidity that Goes up the Canal del Ferro; Carnic Alps, Udine, FVG, I
1-february-2021: Pramollo saddle is a mountain (road) Pass and State border with Austria (where it is called Nassfeld), which, in "hard" Italian part, unlike the "soft" kilometers of Austrian Carinthia ski resorts, is rather wild with a vast conifers forest, a lake, many streams and ponds, steep and rocky mountains and soaked terrain both for morphological characteristics (peat bog) and for the abundant and widespread annual rainfall.
Located at 1530m, it is a meeting point between opposing currents, the humid and mild ones that go up the long meridian valley of the "Canal del Ferro" and which, in low-pressure conditions, coming from the Adriatic Sea bringing intense snowfalls (up to 120cm per single front, 50-60cm on average) from late October to late April and those, on the other side, more stable, dry and cold, which enter from the Austrian side and come from Central or Northern Europe.
The combination of these factors (and many more occasional and/or local ones/microclimates) mean that up here the winters are very photogenic, as you will also see in a second set, taken a few days later, following a new abundant snowstorm and which I will post as soon as I have downloaded what is chronologically iterated between the two excursions on this splendid (and very silent, in Italian part) Alpine saddle.
Finally, I must THANK the work of the municipality of Pontebba (UD), under which Pramollo is, for having kept clean the long, narrow and twisted asphalted road, that leads here from Pontebba little town itself (588m a.s.l.), with almost 1000m of elevation gain in little more than 12 kilometers, and which managed to guarantee access despite a very snowy winter with frequent avalanches and landslides and despite also the fact that there are no ski resorts in Italy (that is NO money revenues for Pontebba or Friuli-Venezia Giulia political Region...).
The work of the snowcats (Italian or Austrian? Is there, perhaps, an Austrian collaboration for Austrian tourism? I think so because in Italy there is no economic income and the work of snowcats is certainly not free!), however, is also excellent, as they have always compressed the fresh snow in a long cross-country ski track that winds around for about 6-7km and allows you to walk easily over 3m of snow without any special equipment.
Thank you so much!
On the Eastern Bank of Lake Pramollo (1528m a.s.l.), at the Foot of Creta di Pricot (2203m a.s.l., Cavallo Group) Which, as Often, Acts as an Orographic Barrier to the (High Pressure) Humidity that Goes up the Canal del Ferro; Carnic Alps, Udine, FVG, I
1-february-2021: Pramollo saddle is a mountain (road) Pass and State border with Austria (where it is called Nassfeld), which, in "hard" Italian part, unlike the "soft" kilometers of Austrian Carinthia ski resorts, is rather wild with a vast conifers forest, a lake, many streams and ponds, steep and rocky mountains and soaked terrain both for morphological characteristics (peat bog) and for the abundant and widespread annual rainfall.
Located at 1530m, it is a meeting point between opposing currents, the humid and mild ones that go up the long meridian valley of the "Canal del Ferro" and which, in low-pressure conditions, coming from the Adriatic Sea bringing intense snowfalls (up to 120cm per single front, 50-60cm on average) from late October to late April and those, on the other side, more stable, dry and cold, which enter from the Austrian side and come from Central or Northern Europe.
The combination of these factors (and many more occasional and/or local ones/microclimates) mean that up here the winters are very photogenic, as you will also see in a second set, taken a few days later, following a new abundant snowstorm and which I will post as soon as I have downloaded what is chronologically iterated between the two excursions on this splendid (and very silent, in Italian part) Alpine saddle.
Finally, I must THANK the work of the municipality of Pontebba (UD), under which Pramollo is, for having kept clean the long, narrow and twisted asphalted road, that leads here from Pontebba little town itself (588m a.s.l.), with almost 1000m of elevation gain in little more than 12 kilometers, and which managed to guarantee access despite a very snowy winter with frequent avalanches and landslides and despite also the fact that there are no ski resorts in Italy (that is NO money revenues for Pontebba or Friuli-Venezia Giulia political Region...).
The work of the snowcats (Italian or Austrian? Is there, perhaps, an Austrian collaboration for Austrian tourism? I think so because in Italy there is no economic income and the work of snowcats is certainly not free!), however, is also excellent, as they have always compressed the fresh snow in a long cross-country ski track that winds around for about 6-7km and allows you to walk easily over 3m of snow without any special equipment.
Thank you so much!