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{{Infobox Hut
|Name=Marinelli Bivouac
|Also known as=Capanna Damiano Marinelli (it)
|Type=CAI
|Photo=Marinelli_Bivouac.jpg
|Caption=The Marinelli Bivouac
|Elevation=3,036 m
|Location={{ITA}}
|Location_sub=Piemonte
|Range=Pennine Alps
|Parent peak=Monte Rosa
|Bases=Macugnaga
|Bases2=Zermatt
|Bases3=Saas Fee
|Bases4=Saas Almagell
|Summits=[[Dufourspitze]], [[Nordend]]
|latd=45
|latm=56
|lats=43
|latNS=N
|longd=7
|longm=53
|longs=25
|longEW=E
|swissx=634990
|swissy=88200
|Topographic map={{1348}}
|Route=F
|Places=12
|Opening=always unguarded
|Food=no
|Drinks=no
|Phone_What=hut
|Phone_What2=warden
|pushpin_map=Italy
|pushpin_label_position=right
|Q=start
}}
= General information =

The '''Marinelli Bivouac''' (''Italian: Capanna Damiano Marinelli'') (3,036 m) is a mountain bivouac hut above [[Macugnaga]] in the [[Pennine Alps]] in [[Italy]]. It's situated on the [[Crestone Marinelli]] on the n side of the well-known [[Marinelli Couloir]] (Canalone Marinelli). Stone built with a wooden floor and cut into the rocks behind. Rather superior to most bivouac huts. It has been made very conspicious having been paint with diagonal red and white stripes.

= Accommodation =
12 places

= Approach Route =
*From [[Macugnaga]] ([[Pecetto]]): (3,5-4h from [[Belvedere]])
Take the chairlift to [[Belveder]] (1,904 m). A 5-10 min walk leads to the edge of the [[Belvedere Glacier]]. Descend moraine on to the rubble covered glacier and cross it S to the R lateral moraine (waymarked with paint flashes). Follow the crest for a little way towards the [[Zamboni and Zappa Hut]] but at the fork in the track about 20 min from [[Belvedere]] (signpost) turn R on to the glacier. Cross it (paint flashes) to the L bank and follow this S to pass below the [[Nordend Glacier]] before reaching the moraine below the [[Crestone Marinelli]] on the N side via névé and scree before reaching its broad crest at a grassy saddle. A path now leads up grassy slopes and a few easy rock steps to the hut.
*From [[Zermatt]]
*From [[Saas Fee]]

= Ascents =
*[[Dufourspitze]]
*[[Nordend]]

= Crossings =

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