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Conditions on the route, on the high crossings & ahead

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Weakest factors now
Alerts

Hazards & advisories

The high crossing

Hour by hour

Temperature is lapse-rate corrected to the true altitude. On Alpine cols, wind is the free-air wind at that height (interpolated between the 850, 700 and 600 hPa levels, which sit at about 1,585, 3,185 and 4,420 m over the Alps), not the sheltered 10 m model wind. "Feels" is wind chill.

Snow

Snow & avalanche on the cols

Rain

Rain, rockfall & landslides

Access

Getting there

7-day outlook

Best days on the route

Each day is scored on its own windows: the high crossing 08:00–17:00, trail 08:00–17:00, morning views 06:00–10:00. Reported closures cap the next 3 days; later days show the weather outlook.

Confidence

Do the models agree?

Plan your dates

Conditions for your trek

Uses the typical itinerary (4–6 days). Stages beyond the 7-day forecast show as "not yet forecast" — check back as your date approaches.

Profile

Route & freezing level

Map

Where the risk is

Nights

Where you sleep

Official

Warnings, alert levels & avalanche danger

Measured

Ground truth

Reports

Latest news & closures

Monitored

Social & official channels

X, Facebook and Instagram offer no public feed we can read reliably, so these are linked rather than scraped. Treat community posts as unverified until confirmed by the official sources, the huts or the news sources above.

About

Selvaggio Blu — Sardinia

Italy's hardest trek: a trackless line along the limestone cliffs of the Gulf of Orosei from Pedra Longa, over the Punta Giradili headland, past Cala Goloritzé, Cala Mariolu and Cala Sisine to Cala Luna, with climbing, abseils and bivouacs. There are no huts and no water; most parties go with a local guide who caches water. Weather risk is heat, wind on the exposed ridges, thunderstorms, and slick rock and rockfall after rain.

Duration
4–6 d
Highest point
732 m
Grade
Very demanding (exposed scrambling, abseils, no water, no marked path in places)
Best seasons
Apr – early Jun · Late Sep – Oct
Season now
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Emergency

Help on the route

112 — European emergency number
Police, ambulance and mountain rescue (Soccorso Alpino) throughout Italy. Give your route, the nearest hut or pass and your phone battery level.
118 — medical emergency
Still answered in every region; calls are routed to the same emergency centre.
Rescue by sea
Much of the route has no phone signal and is reachable only by boat or helicopter — carry a satellite messenger and tell your guide or the boat operator your plan.
Thunderstorms
If a storm builds, get off ridges, cols and via ferrata cables early and do not shelter under isolated trees. Plan to be over the high points by early afternoon.
Paperwork

Permits & bookings

Guides and local rules
No permit is known to be required for the trek itself, but access to some coves (e.g. Cala Goloritzé) has been regulated — confirm current rules with the Comune di Baunei before you go.

Rules, opening dates and access restrictions change — confirm with the huts, the park authority and the local tourist office before you travel.

Method

How the score works

A trek is a route, not a point. We read an hourly forecast for every waypoint (9 on this route) from MET Norway, corrected to its real altitude, and keep the last forecast held for each past hour so recent rain counts. At each route's high point, gusts, storm energy (CAPE), the 0 °C level and free-air wind come from Open-Meteo when available; without them, gusts are estimated from MET wind and the score is capped at 90. ICON-2I (ARPAE), ECMWF, GFS and ICON are compared to rate confidence.

High crossing — wind on the cols and ridges (free-air pressure-level wind above 1,500 m), thunderstorms, snowfall, cloud and wind chill during the crossing window.

Snow & avalanche — fresh-snow load, new snow depth and time since snowfall on the cols. Avalanche danger is the official level from the regional avalanche service (EAWS); outside the bulletin season we show "no bulletin" and never estimate it from a model.

Rain & slopes — rolling 3–96 h rainfall against the Italian landslide rainfall threshold for this region (Peruccacci et al. 2017), scaled for slope susceptibility and the Civil Protection alert level; the index fades once rain stops.

Trail weather, views and access — daytime rain, storms and heat on the whole route (heat scored on the US National Weather Service heat-index categories), morning clarity, and the road or rail approach including official transport strikes.

Reports — Italian national and regional news is classified by relevance, severity and source trust. A credible closure caps the score; a later reopening clears it. Mountain-rescue stories about a single party are shown but do not count as a path closure.

Not an official forecast. Rain and slope levels are model-derived indications (only the Braies end of Alta Via 1 has an open real-time rain gauge). Always follow official warnings, the huts, the park authorities and 112.