Furkelpass/Passo Furcia/Jù de Furcia/Furker Sattel/Furkelsattel
	Height	Climbing height
	1759m Sign 1789m	951m (St. Lorenzen/S. Lorenzo di Sebato); 754m (Zwischenwasser/Longega) 712m (Mitterolang/Valdaora di Mezzo)
	Difficulty	Beauty
	4 (5)	3 (5)
How to get there	You can start all the way down northwest near Bruneck/Brunico at St. Lorenzen/S. Lorenzo di Sebato (808m). The road up to Zwischenwasser/Longega (1005m) is a busy road with many tunnels (there has been a lot of roadwork going on for years on this stretch and still were in 2006). From Zwischenwasser/Longega you take the less busy road to the right up to St. Vigil/S. Vigilio/Al Plan (1179m) where the real climb begins (to the right again). It is pretty steep up both sides the last 5 km or so. From northeast the other side starts in Mitterolang/Valdaora di Mezzo (1047m). The road is very good.
Other comments	You are slightly out of the Dolomites here and the mountains looks more like in Austria perhaps. It is still quite beautiful here though. The pass itself was a construction site when I visited the pass in 2003, but now the work on the reservoir at the top is finished and it looks nice now at the pass height too. Ask someone what the pass is called and you are likely to get a puzzled face. I am not sure which of all names is most used by the locals, but the first two names appear on the sign there (but the locals does not always seem to be able to decide what the sign should say). I just list all official names I have found. There might be an alternative surfaced road up from Bruneck/Brunico and maybe even the road via Krinner Sattel (1300m) could be used (I do not know). If one has a mountainbike one could start the climb in St. Vigil, if one was coming over the interesting and beautiful roads from Limojoch (with bad gravel and over 30% steepness at places) or Fodara Vedla (with its 37% concrete serpentines). [IT-BZ-1759]