It’s been an amazing week in the Dolomites with John and his great family. We’ve trekked from Cortina to near Bolzano staying in high mountain rifugios and village guesthouses. It’s hard to pick highlights out, all the rifugios have their own charm and each day is different but all with the Dolomites feel. We had […]
After looking at the weather forecast last Monday morning and having a rare gap in bookings, we decided to grab the chance to go to the Dolomites for a few days and headed for Cortina d’Ampezzo. I’ve been several times before for work and for some skiing but I’ve never driven there. It’s not easy
Some more photo’s from the Dolomites in Italy. I’ve split the posts up a little because I’ve so many great shots from this most photogenic mountain range that I couldn’t really pick the highlights. These are mostly from a trip at the start of September where I took a few days to do some via
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I’d really wanted to do the long via ferrata Ivano Dibona, probably stopping at the rifugio Lorenzi, but the weather forecast was a bit variable and I’d not really wanted to set out on an 8 hour route on my own in less than optimum weather. But I was really eager to climb something in
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I’ve been back in the Dolomites again and was going to do a few more via ferrata in my free time but some early snow made the higher routes a bit difficult. I’d headed up the Tofana to do a route around the summit but with a lot of new snow on the 3000m plus
These are just a few quick snaps I took a couple of weeks back in the Dolomites. I’d had a few days personal time doing some of the excellent via feratta that are so numerous in the Dolomites before meeting a group for a 10 day trip from east to west over the Dolomites from
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I’ve been working in the Dolomites recently which has been great fun, it’s somewhere I’ve not visited for a long time and it’s somewhere I’ve wanted to get back to. I’ve been able to use a few days off to climb some via ferrata in the area while based around Cortina d’Ampezzo. To start off I
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