If travelling from Listolade (approx. 680 metres above sea level) Panel 18, it is advisable to continue by car to Capanna Trieste (1105 metres above sea level) Panel 19, as the route might become quite challenging because of the difference in height (roughly 1200 meters); in any case, there are no important geological features here.

Once you reach Capanna Trieste (Panel 19) you can park in the large parking lot.

The complete route - a round trip from Capanna Trieste - takes roughly 5 hours.

Capanna Trieste is located over the wide rocky riverbed, inside an active debris gorge. The surrounding rocks belong to the Schlern Formation, its appearance visibly changed by vegetation: at the top looms the slanting silhouette of Torre Trieste (2458m) with its 800-metre high vertical wall; Cima della Busazza (2894m) is to the left with a wall of 1100 metres and to the right is the edge of Van delle Sasse as well as Cima delle Sasse.

Half of Torre Trieste is carved of Main Dolomite, the lower part of Busazza is composed of dolomite, the top part of Grey Limestones. The Val dei Cantoni still hosts a small glacial valley (el Giazer or Glacier de Gasperi), another glacier-snow covered largely with debris is located on the Van delle Nevere, at the base of the Moiazza.

Torre Trieste and Van delle Sasse from Capanna Trieste (photo DG)

From Mussaia one could glimpse at the U-shaped glacier profile of Val Corpassa; the left slope at the foot of Moiazza is covered by an enormous detrital fold affected by spectacular debris flows.

The southern horizon is dominated by Mount Agnèr (2878m); the tilt of its layers is not the result of tectonic movements but was rather chiseled out of the clinostratifications of the cliff escarpment of Pale di San Martino-San Lucano (Schlern Formation). The Cimonega Group with Cime del Piz de Mez, Sass de Mura and Piz de Sagron can be seen further left. To the north lies Torre Trieste with its vertical wall.

Panoramic view southwards from Mussaia: recognisable on the left is the Cimonega Group (Feltrine Alps), on the right the awe-inspiring Agnèr (Schlern Formation) with its clear clinostratifications (photo DG).

From the hairpin bend where the road leading to Case Favretti branches off, we come within sight of Col del Camp (privately owned like the rest of the surrounding area) and Torre Venezia, with the landslide detachment niche from November 1917 and recently, 2020.

The landscape on the Civetta-Moiazza Group is quite intriguing, especially in the area around Cantoni del Framont, as it allows us to distinguish the terrace which separates the upper structure (Main Dolomite and Grey Limestones), from the lower one (reef dolomite). Framont is composed almost exclusively of the Schlern Formation and only on its left side as well as the Corno del Framont there is an outcrop of Cassian Dolomite. The Travenanzes Formation, being the sole culprit for the gap in the slope because of its erodibility, is almost completely buried under the scree.

Torre Venezia and the landslide detachment niche from the collapse in 1917, Col del Camp front right (photo DG).