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+<table style="width: 100%; table-layout: fixed;"> <thead> <tr>
+        <th style="text-align: left"> <a href="../day7">← Day 7</a> </th>
+        <th style="text-align: center"> <a href="../">Alta Via 2</a> </th>
+        <th style="text-align: right"> <a href="../day9">Day 9 →</a> </th>
+</tr> </thead> </table>
+
+# Day 8 - The Troi dei Caserin
+
+<p align="center"><em>August 27, 2025</em></p>
+
+## Route of the day
+
+<details>
+<summary><strong>Click to see map</strong></summary>
+<img src="../img/27-0000-map.png">
+</details>
+
+*Download the [gpx file](../gpx/av2-day8.gpx) or see the route on
+[outdooractive.com](https://www.outdooractive.com/en/route/hiking-trail/san-martino-di-castrozza-primiero-vanoi/-2025-alta-via-2-day-8/325543034/?share=%7E3zdmeu44%244ossqbdb)*
+
+## A damp morning
+
+Today the final part of Alta Via 2 begins. We are entering the *Vette
+Feltrine*, a part that is perhaps less well-known by tourists, but no
+less beautiful. The trails we'll have to walk are going to be narrow,
+often steep.
+
+The weather forecasts for the day are not great, but we
+should reach [Rifugio Boz](https://www.rifugioboz.it/) (1718 meters
+on sea level) before it starts raining. For now there is just a thick fog,
+and the weather is unpleasantly hot and humid.
+
+![Rifugio Cereda, with the Pala Group in the background](../img/27-0740-cereda.jpg)
+
+<p align="center"><em>Our last sight of Rifugio Cereda and the Pala Group.</em></p>
+
+We leave at 7:45. At first we walk on a secondary paved road, then on
+a dirt road.  Both my guide booklet and the signs try to make us walk
+downhill towards the nearby villages of Matiuz and Padreterno, but there
+is a clearly faster road that stays in the forest and leads to the
+start of the actual trail.
+
+![Some signs, none pointing to where we are going](../img/27-0833-sign.jpg)
+
+<p align="center"><em>
+The top sign is marked as "AV2", for Alta Via 2. There is a gap that
+was probably filled by a sign pointing left, which is the way we took.
+I suspect someone - perhaps the local forest authorities - removed
+the sign because they did not want people to go that way, but I
+can't imagine why. Or perhaps the sign simply fell off.
+</em></p>
+
+After about one hour of walk in the forest, the actual trail begins.
+The humidity is very intense, still unpleasant. Unfortunately this also
+means that the pictures of the day are very... foggy.
+
+![The valley in the fog](../img/27-0945-fog.jpg)
+
+<p align="center"><em>The valley behind us, in the fog.</em></p>
+
+## L'Intaiàda
+
+The trail becomes steep, and then extremely steep. We walk along
+a vertical wall of granite, where a narrow passage is carved out.
+Indeed, this part of the trail is called *L'Intaiàda*, which
+can be roughly translated as *The Carved-Out*.
+
+![L'Intaiàda](../img/27-1022-intaiada.jpg)
+
+<p align="center"><em>Admittedly not the best picture of L'Intaiàda.</em></p>
+
+The trail continues, narrow and exposed, but well equipped with some
+sturdy metal ropes where needed. It requires some attention, but I don't
+find it scary or particularly difficult; there is always some rock or
+support piece I can hang on to rest while I think about the next steps.
+
+![Another section of L'Intaiàda](../img/27-1107-intaiada-2.jpg)
+
+<p align="center"><em>Another section of L'Intaiàda.</em></p>
+
+![The steep trail](../img/27-1145-comedon.jpg)
+
+The trail continues very steep, and at 12:05 we reach the *Pass del
+Comedon* (2130m).
+
+![View from the pass](../img/27-1209-comedon-2.jpg)
+
+<p align="center"><em>View from the pass.</em></p>
+
+## A quick break at Bivacco Feltre
+
+From the pass we walk down an extremely steep trail, initially very
+exposed, then less scary.
+
+My left knee has been doing well so far, but suddently I feel an acute
+sting of pain that almost makes loose my balance. This is not good. It
+is also very different from the constant, mild to moderate pain that I
+have felt when walking downhill in the past few days. But I push through,
+slowly and steadily.
+
+The fog becomes even thicker, at times we can't see much farther than
+20-30 meters.
+
+![We are close to Bivacco Feltre](../img/27-1254-fog.jpg)
+
+<p align="center"><em>We are close to Bivacco Feltre, but we can't see it.</em></p>
+
+For a brief moment I catch a glimpse of *Bivacco Feltre* (1930m), a
+[sheet metal shelter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bivouac_shelter)
+where hikers can wait for the bad weather to subside, or spend the night
+in case of need.
+
+![Bivacco Feltre](../img/27-1303-bivacco-feltre.jpg)
+
+<p align="center"><em>Bivacco Feltre.</em></p>
+
+We reach the bivouac at 13:05, and we decide to take a break. We eat
+a protein bar and refill our water bottles. Unfortunately, we can see
+literally nothing besides the meadow around us, and the fog.
+
+![The view from Bivacco Feltre](../img/27-1319-fog-view.jpg)
+
+<p align="center"><em>
+Our view from Bivacco Feltre. The guide book describes the place
+as "pleasant and majestic". I guess I'll have to trust them on this one.
+</em></p>
+
+We need some rest, but we don't want to wait for too long. The journey
+is still long, and if we don't reach our destination before 17:00 we
+will probably be caught by the forecasted thunderstorm. We leave the
+bivouac at 13:30.
+
+## The Troi dei Caserin
+
+From the shelter we walk down, loosing about 200 or 300 meters of
+altitude. We quickly gain them back, as the trail continues upwards.
+The fog is still very thick, we can't see further than 10m.
+
+The trail so far is not particuarly hard, but there are some interesting
+passages where we have to cross some waterfalls and some small water
+streams.  Or maybe I found them interesting only because my bad knee
+prevented me from pushing with my left leg and I had to make some complex
+alternative manouvers.
+
+![A waterfall with a small pond](../img/27-1350-waterfall.jpg)
+
+At 14:50 we reach *Col dei Bech* (1960m), which means *Ibex' hill*.
+And in fact, just after Cold dei Bech, in one of the rare moments when
+the fog let us see at more than 15 meters, we did see a small family
+of chamois.  Ok, not quite ibex, but close enough.  Judging from the
+quantity of warm shit that we saw on the trail, they had probably walked
+right ahead of us for a while.
+
+We continue on this trail that becomes increasingly narrow and exposed,
+difficult in some sections. We are on the *Troi dei Caserin* ("the
+Caserins' trail").
+
+![Troi dei Caserin](../img/27-1545-caserin.jpg)
+
+There are some steel ropes in the most dangerous parts, but not for
+long: soon we reach a grassy section, and the trail becomes ever
+more narrow. On our left, the emptiness of a hundred-meters free fall is
+hidden by the fog. My aching knee makes everything even more challenging.
+
+We did not take many pictures of this part of the journey, mainly because
+we were focusing on keeping our feet on the ground. Apparently, my dad
+and I walked this same trail some 15 years ago, when it was covered in
+half a meter of snow. And I say apparently because, even though we both
+remember that trip quite well, we have no recollection of taking such a
+dangerous path in those conditions. But there is no alternative road,
+so we must have done it... somehow.
+
+At 16:45 we reach *Pass de Mura* (1867m). The view opens up, but we
+can't quite see our destination yet.
+
+![Malga Neva (not where we are going)](../img/27-1644-pass-de-mura.jpg)
+
+<p align="center"><em>
+You see the tiny building down there? It is not Rifugio
+Boz, but Malga Neva. Luckily for us, the Rifugio is closer than that.
+</em></p>
+
+We walk down from the pass and we reach [Rifugio
+Boz](https://www.rifugioboz.it/) (1718m) at 17:05. Just as we walk
+through the door, a strong storm begins.
+
+## At Rifugio Boz
+
+We are tired, hungry and our muscles are sore. As we check in, the hut
+manager asks us if we are walking the Alta Via. We respond that yes,
+we are, and tomorrow we will be going all the way to [Rifugio Dal
+Piaz](https://www.rifugiodalpiaz.com), and we'll finally walk down
+victorious to Croce d'Aune in the evening.
+
+"Are you sure about that?" - she says.
+
+"Why?" - we ask, not sure if she was joking or not.
+
+"Have you seen the weather forecast?"
+
+<table style="width: 100%; table-layout: fixed;"> <thead> <tr>
+        <th style="text-align: left"> <a href="../day7">← Day 7</a> </th>
+        <th style="text-align: center"> <a href="../">Alta Via 2</a> </th>
+        <th style="text-align: right"> <a href="../day9">Day 9 →</a> </th>
+</tr> </thead> </table>
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