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Hikers often happen to meet with rubbish left around, and they are deeply annoyed as nobody felt bound to hide the traces
of their passing.
Sometimes we find troublesome things; we do not avoid them, but we are deeply inquisitive while looking for them: barded
wire, helmets, rusty splinters, cartridge cases.
On Mount Cauriol there are still a lot of those remains, which remind us of ancient and forgotten stories.
The tiring climbing and the inclement day help to understand the unknown heroism of those who had to live and fight here
for long months in 1916, among dirt and lice, hunger and thirst, ice and mud, fear and homesickness.  Mount Cauriol - Night picture of the North Wall at Ziano back Mount Cauriol (m. 2495/ft. 8189) is in Trentino (Italy), Fiemme valley: it belongs to the Lagorai range.
The normal route starts from Ziano: through an old military austrian way, at the Malga Sądole, you reach the nice Rifugio
Cauriol where you can visit a small museum of italian and austrian war finds. In about tree hours from the shelter you
can reach the top through military paths and the remains of hut encampments and emplacements.
Mount Cauriol can be reached either from the south side. A smooth car route strats from the national road which join
Feltre, S. Martino di Castrozza and Rolle pass at the point where Cismon valley get into the lovely Primiero basin.
At left a long tunnel in five minutes takes to the pretty village Caoria where the history keen can visit the
italian-austrian military cemetery (recovered like museum) and the history museum about the first World War on Lagorai.
Got by car the Rifugio Refavaie (m. 1116/ft. 3662) in about two hours by feet we reach Są dole pass where we join the normal
route coming from Rifugio Cauriol (north side).  Mount Cauriol as seen from Caoria On august the 24th, 1916, there started the italian military operations against Mount Cauriol, that, thanks to its strategic position, was an extremely important bulwark in the austrian front. The "Alpini" of Feltre and Val Brenta battalions were employed against the Cauriol emplacements. The assault, almost always unprotected, lasted till the 27th. Three times the "Alpini" found themselves very close to the austrian trenchs, and three times they were compelled to withdraw. At the fourth assault the "Alpini", helped by the 5th mountain battery, were able to carry out their task and occupied the Cauriol top emplacements. As the uproar of the battle was calmed don, among the slopes was heard a song: it was Monte Cauriol, which Alpini composed in memory of their companions who gave their life on this mountain. |
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