Cima Stotz peak from the Köfl farms (Koflhöfe) in Schnalstal valley (Schnalstal)

This route was walked on February 8, 2026, and all subsequent observations and considerations can apply in full only to that day.

In the following report with the term "books" I refer to "Skiing Central South Tyrol" and "Skiing for Beginners - South Tyrol, Trentino, Dolomites" by Ulrich Kössler.

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Ascent to Cima Stotz from the parking lot at the Köfl farms (Koflhöfe).

From the parking lot take CAI 5 initially between two fences and aim for the wooded mountainside opposite.

Upon reaching the forest, CAI 5 climbs ever comfortable, wide and obvious in a southerly direction toward Val di Lagaun on steep flanks on which snowshoes cannot be exited.

Just before entering Val di Lagaun, at a widening, a gently sloping little valley opens on the right to be climbed.

Here I abandoned CAI 5, now with beaten snow from previous passes, to ascend the small valley with soft snow barely marked by a single unconsolidated ski track.

Shortly thereafter cross CAI 4 and continue in easy forest until climbing back onto a secondary ridge.

Stay above the ridge for a stretch and then descend slightly to the right to continue inside another gentle secondary gully and finally exit into the open field.

Here the previous already poorly established tracks split in two and became less visible because they were initially covered by windblown snow.

However, somewhere you have to bend uphill to the right-north, and on the way out I followed the track that, before going up, still continued an almost level stretch to the west; on the way back I followed the other one, in the meantime more consolidated thanks to two ski mountaineers who climbed after me and stopped before the summit to start their descent.

Having made this not difficult leap, the deeper and ... more tiring snow began.

This was followed by a long, gently sloping straight before some jumps whose steepness could be circumvented with diagonals between oblique depressions.

So you arrive in the final big basin and the summit is all to the left uphill direction, and ... you have to trust the books (if you don't already know it in the summer version) because you can only see it at the last; and from inside the basin you can't even quite tell where the highest point is.

So, you go left into the section of slope with more rocks, steep but still compatible with snowshoes: today there was just enough snow to climb without danger of ruining them, or without having to take them off.

A few meters beside the summit with cairn there is another one of equal altitude that you should certainly reach to enjoy some more views from a different angle.