Category: Italy

  • Alpe di Siusi VI – Horseteethpass 2490

    One possibility to get back to the Alpe di Siusi plateau from the Schlern House is via the Tierser Alm and descending from there. To get to the “gate” for the descent you pass by the Tierser Alm (of course you will have a stop inside and by the way, the Tierser Alm is a…

  • Alpe di Siusi V – Wood on rocks

    Continuing the hike up to the Schlern Haus the trail is getting steeper and smaller, trees and plants getting less, rocks become the dominant material around around you. At one place beside the small rocky trail it looks like a wooden bench has grown out of the steep rock wall beside you. A simple tree…

  • Alpe di Siusi IV – The fallen trees

    Continuing the trail from Compatsch to the Schlern House, gaining some hight, in one of the turns of the trail you see something, which in the first view just looks like two fallen trees. Well, of course you can use a fallen tree to sit on, but you would not call it in the first instant…

  • Alpe di Siusi III – Dragon-Water-Bench

    On the way from Compatsch, the village on Alpe di Siusi where the Cable Car ends, to the Schlern House, on top of the Schlern Moutain Group, you find many benches beside the trail. Especially  on last part of the hike when it is going steep uphill, you appreciate to take a comfortable seat on…

  • Alp di Siusi, II – Gostner Schwaige

    Again, it is about the view. Mentally I was dragged back and forth whether I should post this bench or not. I nearly felt a bit sorry for this bench. She is located pretty close, only a couple of meters above the Gostner Schwaige. So, if you come from the mountains from a hiking tour, exhausted, thirsty and…

  • Alp di Siusi, I – Luxury

    This is the first of a series of benches discovered on a weekend trip on the Alp di Siusi in the Southern Tyrolean Dolomites in Italy. Alp di Siusi is the largest Alpine meadow on an altitude between 1650 – 2350, with mountains around, reaching more than 3000 m height. To give you an impression with what luxury…