Punta San Matteo - from the Forni

From the Forni, one leads to the vicinity of the small artificial barrage. Following the signs to the right for the Branca refuge, first pass a small bridge over the Cedec stream and then continue along the bottom of the valley, following a nice track always beaten on the left of the Frodolfo stream, until you reach a small plateau from where you can see the refuge above on the left. This area can also be reached by passing at the beginning of the route at the base of the small dam and skirting the Frodolfo stream on the right. You now go to the right passing a small bridge, or a little further on, with good snowfall, you can easily cross the stream. Following now some small bumps and valleys in a southeasterly direction, you arrive on the basal plateau near a small Tibetan bridge, where a little further on the Forni glacier begins. Keeping well to the right of the glacier's evident median moraine, continue southward on a fairly flat section and then begin to climb in the direction of an evident more or less triangular rocky bank, which you go around to the left, passing a few steeper sections thus reaching a flatter section. You now climb to the right, passing under huge seracs and where these end, a little to the right, you pass a very steep section thus reaching the final plateau of the itinerary. You now ascend in a westerly direction the last falsiplans near the east ridge leading to the summit, passing on the southwestern slope.