The Dolomites mountain range1 is a place I’d never visited before, though the region is not really far off from my home in Bavaria: with the Eurocity connection about four hours from Munich to Bolzano, and about five and a half hours to Verona.
As someone who hiked almost exclusively in the High Tatras in Slovakia in the last two years, the difference in appearance of those two … read more
During the apex of the pandemic a few months ago a remote family member passed away quietly in a nursing home where she had been living in her last years. She was well over ninety, and due to the circumstances at that time only a very small … read more
After I’d visited the Slovakian part of the High Tatras1 mountain range two times in 2019 (August and October) I made further extensive tours this summer.
The plan was this time to hike through some of the elongated valleys in the High Tatras and to negotiate two specific mountain saddles: Bystrá lávka and Priečne sedlo (colored orange on the map below).
