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Piz Casnil

Alpine tour · Bregaglia Engadin

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From the Pass da Casnil you can climb by means of easy scrambling over solid granite blocks to the beautiful rock pyramid of the homonymous Piz Casnil.

difficult

Distance 3.3 km

4:30 h

643 m

179 m

3,189 m

2,332 m

However, you need experience to climb the right route. From the height of the summit you can enjoy an excellent view of all the surrounding mountains. Only suitable for experienced hikers with good local knowledge .

Author’s recommendation

For those who do not know the area to be accompanied by a mountain guide

Overnight stay in the Hut

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Bregaglia Engadin Turismo

Update: March 16, 2021

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Highest point

3,189 m

Lowest point

2,332 m

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1.3 km

Traces of trail

2 km

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Difficulty: WB / The ascent is made first through a gully with loosened rock, after which the most strenuous part follows. One climbs on a crooked track between boulders and slabs (difficulty level II); numerous cairns. A rope may be useful. Marking blue-white until the pass, in the last stretch not present, but numerous cairns show the way.

Start

Albigna hut (2,332 m)

Coordinates:

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2'770'665E 1'133'350N

46.329853, 9.655174

DMS

46°19'47.5"N 9°39'18.6"E

UTM

32T 550429 5130906

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Destination

Piz Casnil

Turn-by-turn directions

You follow the route up the Pass da Casnil until just before the top of the pass, where the path leaves the rocky rib to traverse towards the southern crossing of the pass. It is exactly at this point that you leave the path and turn left. You go past the foot of the rise between the two pass crossings over a gentle firn field. At the northern pass, which is occupied by a small lake, one continues straight on between boulders towards a gully that sits in the left part of the rock triangle above. Further up, one climbs over rocks. One should follow the passage tracks and pay attention to various cairns as signposts; in stretches by climbing between ordered boulders and easy slabs (grade II), one thus reaches the highest peak (3189 m). The descent follows the same route.

Public transport

from Pranzaira by cableway to the Albigna dam

Coordinates

SwissGrid

2'770'665E 1'133'350N

46.329853, 9.655174

DMS

46°19'47.5"N 9°39'18.6"E

UTM

32T 550429 5130906

w3w

///craters.eats.disbanded

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Equipment

Mountain boots, sticks, eventually a rope

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Difficulty

difficult

Distance

3.3 km

Duration

4:30 h

Ascent

643 m

Descent

179 m

Highest point

3,189 m

Lowest point

2,332 m

Summit route Out and back Exposed sections Scrambling required Ridge traverse

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