Hey! This is where I found out I dont really like multi day mountain hikes while sleeping in shared rooms :-). Was still amazing though, A+ panoramic views and lush hidden meadows.
Me in one of those meadows!
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Lovely photo, you have a very kind smile. Travel well my friend!
Adorable. We'd be homies for certain.
If you come to the Cascades in Washington, please don't stand in our meadows like this. These plants do NOT survive being stepped on and you're compressing the soil, preventing regrowth. If everyone walks in the meadows they will vanish forever. There is no natural mechanism to uncompress soil.
I never understood why people are annoyed by tourists until I moved to the mountains...
There is no natural mechanism to uncompress soil.
Earthworms.
Also Plantago and some other plants...
The level of cope people will produce in order to refute my request to not destroy fragile meadows is nuts. I thought I was being polite. And I'm right.
Once the meadow is trampled and the soil is compacted, and all the native flowers are gone, go ahead and plant some plantains there up on that mountain in the compacted soil. Problem solved?
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How was adjustment to the elevation? I go backpacking a lot and that looks amazing.
I was untrained for this and we did not take any extra time to get accustomed to the height. I live around 0m height normally. I did not notice any difference in breathing or being extra drained because of it, maybe we kept our pace low enough?
The dolomites are not realy high enough for acclimatization to matters. Everything under 2500m is fine and going (from 0) to 3000m still only affects 40% of people. Unless you are climbing Marmolada (3300m) and are sleeping in huts that are generally below 2800m you should be fine. Of course some people are more affected than others but that is not the norm.
Damn, even Frodo lived life at 1m height
Imagine growing up there. "Mom, im going to my friends house."
"Not till you mow the mountain, you're not."
I'm going to Vito's house today, have you seen the 200m rope?
I knew I recognized that word!
Who mows that grass, and why?
It's actually a very popular and accessible place which this photography captures really well.
The left side if wild, probably nobody even goes there. Right side is perfectly curated with a convenient path which you can most likely reach with a lift opened from dawn to dusk.
The valley has a great infrastructure. A lot of spots are even wheelchair accessible.
Yet, you can start from such spots and hike until there is literally nobody else around, even during high season.
Warmly recommended.
The peaks you see are called Seceda. The entire area starting from the right side of them in the picture is called Alpe di Siusi (Italian) / Seiser Alm (German), and is the largest high-elevation Alpine meadow in Europe. I've been there recently and can confirm the wheelchair accessibility.
Wonderful, thanks for clarifying!
I wish that was my job.
The dolomites are spectaculary beautiful. Can recommend.
Dolomite, you say?
Its Dolomites, Baby!
Beautiful but alas since a few years overrun by tourists. I advice everybody reading this to go there in August, the quiet month.
How are the temperature there during August? I have trouble with our Swedish summer sometimes when it's 28°+C, I can't imagine hiking in mountains if it's too hot.
It's pretty cool up there.
Thanks, it's on the travel list!
They are high up, so perfect.
Thanks, I'll put it on my travelling list!
They looked pretty different in 1914
Is that when you saw them?
Yes
I have family that's taking me to Florence next year so I'm slowly starting to pick up some travelers Italian as well as learning about what I might want to do. And who knows maybe this will be my gateway into more European travel since it'll involve overcoming a lot of the hurdles that may have previously seemed insurmountable about traveling to Europe. So who knows maybe I'll make another trip in the future and focus on Northern Italy more so I can see the dolomites myself!
Can 100% recommend to visit the Dolomites!
I hope you have a wonderful time, wherever your path takes you.
one of my favorite Battlefield 1 maps
I knew I'd recognised this from somewhere! What a campaign.
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