September 2019

Our last day in Italy. This was supposed to be a triumphant day or two in Milan to decompress from our hike but with the few days in Riva, Milan was just a stopping point for our flight home. Milan however is a beautiful city to spend a day in…

September 9-13 2019 With the abandonment of the Alta Via 2, we had a few days to kill before we headed to Milan to catch our flight back to Toronto. Over lunch as it poured rain, we looked at our maps, looked up some hiking options and found that a town named Riva Del Garda. …

September 9 2019 After bailing on the Alta Via 2 due to the miserable weather, we spent a day in transition in Verona Italy, while en route to Riva del Garda

This was the day our Alta Via 2 encounter ended. Bogged down with several days of rain, the forecast had predicted up to 50cm of snow in our region. We were in an area that gave us access to a cable car, so we ascended to our scheduled hut – Rifugio Rosetta so that we …

Today we spent most of the day in San Martino di Castrozza. A small mountain town that we arrived at via bus. There is a cable car here and our plan was to ascend to reach Rifugio Rosetta for our existing reservation; hoping that the weather forecast was wrong for September 8. September 8 was …

September 6 we started our day in San Pellegrino at Hotel Costabella. The weather forecast had promised rain and it delivered. A temperature of +3 Celsius and driving rain made for an ominous start. Our motto, “Lets give it a shot, no matter what” led us to the cable car about 400m from Hotel Costabella. …