¬A¬ Midsummer Ramble in the Dolomites : [untrodden peaks and unfrequented valleys]
jagged ridge of Monte Padon, rise just North of the extreme Eastern end of thè Marmolata, which is buttressed on this side by the black preeipices of Seranta. Monte Vernale, repeating from here as from Canazei its curious resemblance to thè Marmolata, lurks dose under the Southward wall of its huge neighbour, being divided from it by only a little green slope considerably higher than the Fedaja pass, which Clementi points out as thè Forcella di Contrin (9,052 feet), and which is also known
as thè Forcella di Val Ombretta, and as thè Passo di Val Fredda, Still lower down towards the South-West lies thè Sasso di Val Fredda, still unascended; a little beyond it comes the Monte Ricobetta, loeally known as the Monzon, 8,634 feet in height ; and on the same parallel, but still farther West, Monte Latemar, on whose summit the vapours rest all day. North-West of thè Marmolata, about nine miles distant as the crow flies, rise the snow-streaked bastions of thè Sella Massif, of which, however
, only two great towers—thè Boé and thè Campolungo Spitz—are seen from this side ; while in an opening between thè Boé and thè Marmolata rises a noble, solitary rock which proves to be the Lang Kofel, 10,392 feet in height, and distant about thirteen English miles, A tiny glimpse of the Rosengarten is also seen in thè gap above the Forcella di Contrin. Returning now to the point from which we started, and looking due North straight over thè top of Monte Migion, the pinky snow-streaked line of the
Sett Sass, divided from Monte Lagazuoi by the Valparola pass,
