At Santa Caterina di Valfurva we find ourselves ascending the snowy road on alternating but always gentle slopes.

We pass some characteristic groups of huts with the white snow violated only by the numerous deer footprints, which in the night hours come down to drink at the stream.

We now proceed to the edge of the forest, with the silence interrupted only by the flight of a few hazelnuts, until we reach the summer picnic area. After a slightly uphill stretch we meet two hairpin bends that allow us to vary our perspective, and after a last stretch on a false plain here the Stella Alpina Refuge stands out before us. A few meters beyond the hut, on the left, starts the forest road that leads to the Pradaccio huts.

Initially we proceed immersed in the forest among firs and stone pines, to then find ourselves among the meadow glades of the Pradaccio di Sotto huts. We ascend the snow-covered meadows on a now steeper slope and the sight of the Pradaccio di Sopra huts, our arrival point, announces the imminent end of our labors. Here the panorama becomes much wider, dominated by the bulk of the north face of Pizzo Tresero (3594 m) to the south, the peaks of the Forni Glacier to the east and Mount Sobretta to the west.

The Forni road, which leads in a little more than 4 km to Rifugio Forni, passing after 3 km from Rifugio Stella Alpina, is kept clean usually until autumn and then remains snow-covered, and beaten normally by the snowcat until the end of February when clearing takes place in anticipation of its reopening to vehicular traffic, which usually occurs on the first weekend of March.