Passo d’Eira
Passo d’Eira Height Climbing height - length
2210m 392m - 6.4 km (Livigno)
187m - 2.9 km (Trepalle)
Difficulty Beauty
1-2 (5) North; 1 (5) South 2-3 (5)
How to get there This is probably the easiest Alp pass above 2000 metres height (as a separate climb from other passes). You start either in Livigno (1818m) to the north and have a easy climb. Or you come down a short way from Passo di Foscagno (2291m) in order to climb up from Trepalle (2023m). The full climb on the south from Bórmio (1200m) is of course not very easy.
Other comments The views over the mountains surrounding Livigno is quite nice. The traffic is somewhat heavy, but bearable. Services of all kinds available down in Livigno. Typically one travels via the Fórcola di Livigno (2315m) when passing over this pass as the only alternative is the Livigno tunnel to Switzerland. It is no longer allowed to go bicycling to/from Livigno through the tunnel as someone has deemed it too dangerous and thus you will have to either pay a fee for the bus or a higher fee as penalty for breaking the regulation. (20 euro in my case, even when I met no car in the tunnel. I had just missed the half-hourly bus and hoped they would not charge me a fee – I do not approve of that regulation. No idea what the fee might be outside bus hours … .)
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