Rasun Anterselva, Italy

A drive to the Dolomites
Oct 21, 2008

... The trip took us about 6 hours to travel 174kms. The hills are amazing, with cliff top castles dotting the landscape. We didn't think Italy was much for castles, but we were wrong. Or perhaps this is a reflection that much of this land used to be part of ...

Nordic Walking - more than a brisk walk...
Oct 23, 2008

It was my plan initially to launch an assault on one of the larger mountains near here today. However, I didn't pull up all that well after yesterdays warm-up walk! In the interest of not pushing to hard and potentially wrecking myself for future days ...

The hills are alive, with the sounds of gasping...
Oct 22, 2008

Today we did a walk up one of the nearby "hills", walking about 15 km (horizontal) and about 1057m (vertical). We walked to the top of Lutterkopf - Monte Luta, which at a height of 2145m is only slightly lower than our Mt Kozy! This one is the baby in ...