The information here is similar to the one for the more popular pass that goes under this name, but whose real name is Passo della Foppa/Pas de la Foppa (1855m). This is a short way from the Foppa pass on the road going southwest near the top of that pass and marks the highest point on this ridge road. This road also passes over Passo di Guspessa (1824m) and Passo del Picco (1870m) and takes you down via Valico di Trivigno (Monte Padrio) (1867m) to Passo di Aprica (1174m). There are some roads going off this road: one goes to Cortenedolo; one or two goes down to Tirano; and the last one goes over Passo di Santa Cristina (1434m) down to half-way up the west side of Passo di Aprica. The surface from Trivigno to Aprica is a bit bad in places, so be careful when descending! The starting points are similar to the one for the Foppa pass.

The most popular climb starts from the west just north of Tirano in Mazzo di Valtellina (552m). Here along the roadside they have recently raised a statue to the memory of Marco Pantani. There is a road starting also further north (just north of Grosio) at Ponte di Grosio (712m) (might be hard to find (get the Kompass 94 map of the area)). The climb from Mazzo has around 15% on average for 5-6 kilometres with a maximum at around 18-20%.

The eastern approach start in Edolo (699m) if coming from the south or if arriving from Passo del Tonale or Passo di Gavia you can turn off to Monno at Ponte dei Pellegrini (891m). It is a very hard climb on any approach, but the one from Monno is easiest (only last bit is very steep).

There is also an interesting climb up from Tovo S. Agata (524m), which starts just before the village if coming from Tirano (there are no sign posts and the road looks like it only goes to a house there). As soon as you reach the woods the road becomes better and steep. The road is asphalted for a very long stretch (and it looked like they were asphalting more of it). The problem is finding the right road over to the normal road up to Passo della Foppa, which I missed myself and went up on a grassy track with concrete ramps up to 32% to eventually meet the Foppa-Trivigno road (which I only saw when I was metres away from it). If you find the gravel road over to the Foppa pass then it should normally be rideable with a road bike. From the new profile at salite.ch it says that there is now only 1 km of gravel left here. You should turn off the road soon after the road you are climbing turns to gravel (which I believe was asphalted again higher up for an additional kilomtre or so). This approach should be the hardest (very irregular) and I found it quite fun. There is also a version up from Mazzo which is a bit harder than the normal road, but I am unsure exactly how this goes so have not tried to map it.