Passo (del) Sella/Jof de Sèla/Sellajoch
	Height	Climbing height
	2244m	373m (Plan de Gralba);1010m (St. Ulrich/Ortisei) 1720m (Klausen/Chiusa); 1774m (Waidbruck/Ponte Gardena) 429m (bivio per Passo Sella); 804m (Canazei)
	Difficulty	Beauty
	3 (5) South; 4 (5) North	5 (5)
How to get there	One of the most classic passes in the Dolomites. There are a number of possibilities on how to reach the pass. Either one can come from a nearby pass on the Sella Ring – Jëuf de Frea/Grödnerjoch/Passo Gardena from the north or Passo Pordoi from the south. Both these approaches are steep, but are relatively short climbs. I have set ”difficulty” rating after the longer approaches. While it is steeper coming from Passo Pordoi or Canazei (1440m), it is much longer going from St. Ulrich/Ortisei (1234m) or as you likely are coming from either Klausen/Chiusa (524m) or Waidbruck/Ponte Gardena (470m), it is a very long climb. You can make it even harder (as I did the first time) by going from Bolzano (266m) via the Panider Sattel/Passo di Pinei (1442m) and then up from St. Ulrich/Ortisei (1234m), which means a climb of 2186 meters, making it one of the longest climbs in the Alps and Dolomites.
Other comments	One of the most beautiful passes in the Dolomites. It was my first ever pass above 2000 m and thus has a special place in my memory. The roads are often very good in this area (though the decent from Passo Pordoi was a bit rough in 2003), but they very often resurface the roads around the Sella Ring as they are one of the main attractions for tourists in the Dolomites (well, the road were not very good on Passo Sella in 2006). Especially the road over the Passo Pordoi could be rather busy with cars, motorcycles and cyclists for sure. There is a bar on the top of all the passes in the Sella ring (Campolongo?) and plenty of accomodation in the villages in the valleys. See also the old Passo Sella (2213m) which now also could be reached by a surfaced road (it is a slightly different pass as it goes down another valley on the south side). [IT-BZ-2244]