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From the Forcella Sora Forno (2388m) pass it’s a short downhill walk to the cream stone building Rifugio Biella (2327m, 10min), an exemplary old-style refuge where generous slices of home-made, mouth-watering tarts and Apfelstrudel are hard to resist.

Path n.28 entails a gradual ascent E to a rocky crest studded with edelweiss. As you’re a little way back from Croda del Becco now, its regular onion-skin layers of limestone are clearer, as is its crazily tilted 45° angle. The airy ridge gives wonderful outlooks, including a bird’s eye view of Lago di Fosses below the Remeda Rossa. Watch your step, however, as the way is pitted with hollows where precious soil has collected and an astonishing range of blooms flourish, such as pink cinquefoil.

From Forcella Cocodain (30min, 2332m), a faint route thick with wildflowers and marked by occasional red and white paint stripes leads due N down the regular rock strata. After some 20min of clambering you join path n.3 and turn R. Only minutes away, a 2225m fork signed for n.4 leads easily L (NW) down into a grazing basin often populated by cows. The valley narrows after passing diminutive Lago del Giavo, and you then drop to rejoin n.1 at the 2034m junction (1hr).