So, we survived our first day skiing in the Dolomites. We are still confused about the names of places. We do know we are staying in a town called La Villa, which is in a valley called Alta Badia, but pretty sure we went far far beyond this valley today. Because today was our best weather day (clear) our guide suggested we use today to get to the top of the Queen of the Dolomites, the Marmolada. What a view! Of course we had to ride 3 trams up up up, then climb 4 flights of stairs to get to the top observation deck.
Each town here has lifts to get you up onto ridges or peaks, from which you can ski down in several directions. At the bottom you choose one of the lifts there and head back up in a new direction. What a great thing to have a guide so we didn’t have to struggle with figuring out the map, or even where we were. All we knew/hoped was that at the end of the day, we would up back at our hotel in La Villa.
We met Fillippo in our hotel at 8:30. By 9 we had our rental skis and were in his car. We took a very short ride to the Dolomiti Superski Pass office where we showed our vaccination cards and got our passes validated for the week. From there, a short walk to our first lift, a 6 person gondola. A little after 4pm we skied back to Hotel ChrisiAnia and dumped our skis and boot into a ski locker in the hotel basement. We plan to ski less tomorrow. More stops for coffee and chocolate. Pics to come.
Mostly Italian tourists I think. Yes, the ship will sail.
Many tourists or mostly locals? What’s happen with the voyage? Still on?