Rosswagen (Rittnerhorn)
	Height	Climbing height
	1699m	1433m (Bolzano/Bozen) 1229m (Waidbruck/Ponte Gardena)
	Difficulty	Beauty
	4-5 (5) Bolzano old roads; 3-4 (5) Bolzano new road/Waidbruck	4-5 (5)
How to get there	This is a pass road, but there is no map marking it as such. Nonetheless I have decided to include it here. One could start from the south in Bolzano (266m) and choose among a couple of roads, but there is only one that is somewhat easy and that is the main road to Oberbozen and Collalbo/Klobenstein (1154m). One could start down in Ponte Gardena/Waidbruck (470m) to the east and climb via Barbian/Barbiano on a fine road with some dangerous narrow places, but one will also have to pass by Collalbo/Klobenstein on the way up. (This road has some descents on the way.) From here a road goes via Ritten/Renon toward Rittner Horn (Via Tann). Make sure not to take the road to Wangen, but the one climbing up toward the Ritten mountain. The Ritten road (via Tann) only becomes steep where there is a cable car going up to the mountain. Here it is a small and steep road that soon reaches the pass (from where a gravel road takes off up the Rittner Horn). There are also some very steep old road alternatives out of Bolzano, of which the easier is entirely asphalted (the old road), while the other via Santa Maddalena is ridiculously steep for the first 2,5 km at an average of around 20% (it starts at around 23% and then comes a long ramp at 30%) and then one has to walk some hundred metres up to a farm (if not before) to arrive an old surfaced road up to Maria Himmelfahrt, which is very nice and never over 15% ;-). I am not sure the road down to Sarentino is fully paved (probably not and it is private in part).
Other comments	There are very fine views at some places along the Via Tann on the last part of the climb. The pass itself is the least nice place on this climb. For good descriptions of road alternatives up to Oberbozen from Bolzano see: Quäldich.de. Bring water from the start!