Cadolten MTB

Cadolten is another of the long hard climbs from the pedemontana to the Cansiglio-Piancavallo mountain ridge.  It's best attempted on a MTB, though I managed it once on Legend Fedaia.  You warm up riding to Sarmede or Fregona, then head briefly up the main road toward La Crosetta.  Soon you turn off at Via Praviner, which quickly turns into vertical concrete.   This alternates with stretches of slightly less steep dirt/gravel.  You reach sun-exposed steep concrete up above 1000 meters, which was the hardest section for me.  Just in the nick of time the agony ends at the gravel road through Cadolten altopiano.  I was so exhausted here that I accidentally turned the wrong way up toward Monte Pizzoc.  Eventually I figured it out and turned around.

At La Crosetta I headed up the gorgeous gravel road to Candaglia. Good cool down after the climb.  Soon I reached the paved road to Piancavallo and pedaled to Sauc, where you reach the main road toward Aviano.  I instead turned off at Rifugio Bornass and took the road to Madonna delle Monte, then home.  Tired but happy.

Beautiful, cool Cadolten

Cadolten climb