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- Carving Livigno
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- Testing angulation while Carving Livigno
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- Solitude in Livigno
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- Another Rodeo
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- Trying Rodeos...
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- Backflip in Livigno
Posts Tagged ‘Italy’
Livigno
Saturday, February 5th, 2011
Bormio
Friday, February 4th, 2011-
- Worldcup run Pista Stelvio in Bormio
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- Gypaetus barbatus in Bormio
Dolomiti to Stelvio via Bolzano
Thursday, February 3rd, 2011-
- Bolzano
Cortina
Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011-
- Worldcup run Tofane in Cortina
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- View from Tofane
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- Mono chair at Cinque Torri
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- Behind Lagazuoi
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- Worldcup run Gran Risa Alta Badia
Marmolada e Val Mezdi
Tuesday, February 1st, 2011-
- View from Pordoi
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- Start Val Mezdi
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- Val Mezdi
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- Lower Val Mezdi
Val Chedul Ski Touring
Monday, January 31st, 2011-
- Pisciadu ferrata
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- Sassolungo
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- Traversing to the summit
Sellaronda
Sunday, January 30th, 2011-
- La Sellaronda - pure enjoyment around the Sella group
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- Sassolungo e Sass Pordoi
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- Sassolungo
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- The usual suspects
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- Sassolungo and some random guy in pink...
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- Worldcup run Sasslong
Driving home
Tuesday, July 27th, 20108.30, wow we imagined it was going to get hot much earlier in the car, but better so! a quick dip in the lake and we choose the shortest (Km wise) route. After having to deal with 40 Km of German traffic on the coastal road (it is horrible how many German tourists there are there) and a bit of shopping in one of my favourites shops (Red point climbing store) in Arco we attack the first pass of the day. Our road is basically a straight line between Arco and Sagogn, which means just after the first small pass we arrive at the beginning of first “hors categorie” the G di Cadino and passo Croce Dominii (1893m starting from around 400m on a very tiny road), that takes us to Val Camunica. Passing by the valley I tell Sarah that the name says me something but I do not know what. Then we pass by a UNESCO sign that says “world centre of rock graving”, there we go, it was my Geo teacher that always talked about this place, so we go for a quick visit. The graving are a nice view but almost something for experts.
Over the colle dell’Aprica we get into valtellina and then enter Switzerland in Val Poschiavo where the custom officer checks our car looking for don’t know what.
Up to Passo Bernina (our second “Hors categorie” with 2328m) and then down into Engadin, over the Julier and we are back in Sagogn!!
Sounds short you say? more than 7 hours of secondary roads, around 5500m of altitude gain, two super slow trucks in the longest no overtake road, a picky custom officer and thousands of germans and dutch shitty drivers…
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- Loundry drying in Rovinij
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- Camper? no Justy!
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- Converting back to Car
Val Gardena – Lorenzago di Cadore
Sunday, July 11th, 2010Weel, today is mountain day, we are in the Dolomites and even if we are only passing by the call of the summits is to big to resist so we decide to do a via ferrata.
Aftre some gear shopping, we head to the start and with some struggles (well Italian trail marking wasn’t really helping us) wasn’t we get to the foot of the “via ferrata della brigata Trientina” – a classic on the dolomites. It goes up a nice 400m shoulder towards the Pisciadu hut.
Being on a classic on a Sunday in July means of course TRAFFIC, on the route and below on the road with plenty of wannabe Valentino Rossi polluting the fine air 
After having to walk really slow because of a guy that “didn’t notice” the 10 persons (and growing) behind him we passed over the hanging bridge ant there we were, the hut was just 300m further. We kind of run to it because we can hear thunders getting nearer. A small bite and down running through a narrow gully where (definitely not mountain) people are still smiling and walking UP… I decide to take the skiing shortcut over some nevee and Sarah runs all the way down to the bottom of the gully. Then a last 15min run and we just make it to the car when hail starts pouring like crazy… well, running paid off 
After the Hail is over we move over the Passo Gardena toward Alta badia (wow, it looks great too), Passo campolongo, Cortina (where we stop for a beer and the end of the Tour de France stage), Lago di Cadore and finally, since it is getting 20.30 (and the world cup final game is imminent) we stop in a small hotel in Lorenzago di Cadore.
The game is well boring but the company (we lower the age average by 40 years) very amusing
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- Albergo Trieste
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- Passo Gardena
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- Top of Ferrata Brigata Tridentina
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- End of via Ferrata
Santa Maria – Val Gardena
Saturday, July 10th, 2010What a day! so sunny without a cloud! our plan was to head toward Mustair and visit the UNESCO world heritage Abbey. Really beautiful and still inhabited with (yes) real nones, this site has been listed because it is in (re)construction since the 7th century!
After this refreshing visit, we thought that driving the famous Stelvio pass was a good idea! could have been, but a bike race (the feminine giro) stopped us for 2 hours on the top. A sunburn after it was less amusing!
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- Monastero a S.Maria
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- Umbrail Pass
