DolomiteSport has dropped off the radar a bit this last week due to a super busy schedule. A friend from the US, Brandyn Roark Gray, is here enjoying the Dolomites and Zillertal Region and we are of course shooting backcountry skiing each day. The usual list of comments are coming from her about this area, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Italy’
Dolomite Skiing | Sella Group Couloirs
Text and photos Francesco Tremolada | ProGuide.it
Skiing the Sella Group, the Kingdom of Couloirs
Sitting in the heart of the Italian Dolomites and rising above some of the region’s most famous villages is The Sella Group. Simply put, it takes your breath away. With its massive towers and labyrinth like corridors, it is a tremendous rock [...]
Ortler Ski Tour | Italy
Ski touring Italian style in the Ortler Group of northern Italy
Dolomite Alta Via 1 Mountain Hut Impressions
A trend is developing. Each time we ask someone from the USA to contribute to DolomiteSport a consistent topic seems to emerge; the mountain huts, their decadence and convenience.
This fall we helped Sue Johnston and Chris Scott make plans for hiking the Alta Via 1. When it was finished they kindly put together a story [...]
Dean Karnazes
Dean Karnazes Ultramarathon Man
I remember seeing Dean Karnazes for the first time. It was at the Rucky Chucky river crossing during the Western States 100 Mile Race. He stuck in my memory because he was the only guy who came through looking like he had just started. Or maybe it was the calves. Or, maybe [...]
Trail Running & Mountain Biking
We have been working with some friends to create some tourism marketing material to promote the Dolomites for trail running and mountain biking. A collaborative video project showing off the region’s offerings is in the works and will be ready to post this coming winter. Our goal with this new image collection is to really [...]
Tuscany’s L’Eroica Cycling Race
L’Eroica: Chianti’s Vintage Cycling Event
Tuscany’s L’Eroica bike race in Italy is a regular occurrence, for races are everywhere, every weekend. But each fall since 1997, Tuscany’s Chianti Region is host to a special kind of race, L’Eroica, a vintage Cycling event. Italian roads are typically silky smooth pavement represented as yellow lines on maps. But [...]
Passo Giau, Duran & Tre Cime di Lavaredo
Thanks to our Guest Contributor Alex Newport-Berra for his description of riding the famous Dolomite passes and his cycling adventures.
Editor’s note… Alex was connected to us through a mutual friend after he expressed interest in spending time riding in the Dolomites. He arrived with his bike and little else, checked into Alta Badia’s Ustaria Posta [...]
Alpabzug
And now for something completely different.
Alpabzug
No sports, no gear reviews, nothing to do with making your heart beat quickly.
Just cows, the end of summer, beer and a lot of European tradition.
Alpabzug: The traditional celebration of the end of summer where the cows are brought down from the high Alps to the valley floors for the [...]
Pfunderer Höhenweg
The Pfunderer Höhenweg Hiking Tour
Late in the fall of 2008, we found ourselves on one of the best ridge line trails we had ever seen. We were trail running the Sud Tirol’s Pfunderer Höhenweg in the Zillertal Alpen above Bruneck and wanted to see a summit we know locals frequent for post work exercise, the [...]
