Hiking and MTB in the Dolomites: September 2025
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I strictly mountain bike
Road riding scares the snot out of me. Trees don’t text
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Definitely more German based. A little to heavy then I would like but still good.
This rich food has been messing with my belly.
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Here’s a mix of food from today’s Refugio lunch
Pork schnitzel
Pasta with hot pepper oil and garlic
A type of German pancake
That's the classic "Kaiserschmarrn" dessert -- named after Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph the First. I mentioned it while at Brandnertal ten years ago (scroll toward the bottom). The pancake is intentionally torn into pieces during the cooking process.
As I recall, Schmarrn is an Austrian/Bavarian word meaning "mess," so the translation is basically "the emperor's mess." Delicious but not for the calorie-conscious.
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We did over 20 k steps
Calories be damned
I have a difficult time in Europe. My brain struggles that there is no green on that schnitzel plate.
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Same
Hotel I’m staying included breakfast and dinner
Dinner has a fabulous salad buffet as a starter.
Don’t you notice the sprig of parsley.
Nor on the pasta plate
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Now for dinner
Food looks lovely - particularly the venison. And those beans would be in grave danger if I was in attendance.
This is your half-board hotel?
Recall this map of the Dolomites showing the pre-WWI boundary.
Alpi di Suisi where Jason is staying is west of the NW corner of that map, definitely on the Austrian side of the old border. It was where we skied our first day in the Dolomites driving in from Bolzano. If you pass through Arabba, try to have a meal at Miky's.
Alpi di Suisi where Jason is staying is west of the NW corner of that map, definitely on the Austrian side of the old border. It was where we skied our first day in the Dolomites driving in from Bolzano. If you pass through Arabba, try to have a meal at Miky's.
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jasoncapecod
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Food-wise? How?
As a teen in upstate NY (before I stopped eating meat), we had neighbors who were hunters. Every year, they'd end up with way too much venison in their freezer and gave it away to friends, including us. My mother would try to sneak it into a variety of dishes (stews, even pasta sauce) and I'd always notice because it was so brutally gamey. Gah!
Lack of green veg. Too much ham and cheese and bread.
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Ok here’s the last installment of this trip
This place was on my daughter’s must visit
Neuschwanstein Castle
This place was on my daughter’s must visit
Neuschwanstein Castle
Looks like you had a change in weather! I had to look up the stupid lock thing:
Padlocks on a bridge, known as love locks, are a tradition where couples place a locked padlock on a bridge as a symbol of their eternal love, often etching their initials on the lock and throwing the key into the river. This practice has spread globally, but it poses structural risks to bridges due to excessive weight and can contribute to pollution from the discarded keys. Consequently, some cities have removed these locks, with the most famous example being Paris's Pont des Arts, and have made the practice illegal.
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Rain til 4 today
Then we had a beautiful evening in Munich