It’s only a tiny crag, but was just what we needed this afternoon – a quick climbing hit before the forecast storms arrived! Only a few minutes drive from the apartment and with a walk in time of about sixty seconds, it was hard to fault! Given the showery weather today, on first impressions the… Read more

The south face of Porte Neigre was todays objective and the scene of another fantastic day of climbing in the Dolomites. If I could design a days climbing, it might look something like this – it’s our very style of ‘Alpine Style Climbing’. From the small village of Pera, we took a ‘mountain taxi’ up… Read more

Hoorah! After two aborted attempts, we’ve finally made ascent of the Dolomite classic Sella Tower! Having been snowed off in 2007, rained off last week, today we climbed the first of the four towers. The Sella Towers – (the first tower is the right hand tower) But it nearly didn’t happen! Another pre 6am alarm… Read more

Did our first Dolomiti Via Ferrata today! It’s been ages since I’ve done any Via Ferrata routes and it just so happens that there is a good introductory one on the Col Rodella, which is a short cable car ride away from our apartment.  There was another huge storm and downpour last night, so we… Read more

We had a day out in our village today where an ‘Outdoor Festival’ is being held. We started off with a stroll around our new neighbourhood, checking out the shops and tourist office, before returning for coffee on the balcony, then heading down to the main festival. There were loads of stands and displays of… Read more

The alarm went off at 5.30am this morning, with the intention of us making a dawn ascent of the Sella Towers. But overcast skies and forecasts of imminent, thunder, lightening and rainfall, sent us back to bed after a short debate! I don’t mind risking a rain shower, but you can’t dodge a lightning strike!… Read more