Small hiking and mountaineering tours in Europe.
This blog post is a continuation of a past article about hiking tours in Trentino.
Mezzocorona, a town surrounded by large vineyards on 219 meters AMSL (Above Mean Sea Level; every height stated below is AMSL), is reachable from Trento by train within fifteen minutes.
The peak I had chosen for this day was Cima Roccapiana (“Flat Rock Peak”) in … read more
The Dolomites are a mountain range I’d never visited before, though Northern Italy is not really far off from my hometown in Bavaria: with the Eurocity connection about four hours from Munich to Bolzano, or five and a half hours to Verona.
As someone who hiked and climbed (more or less) exclusively in the High Tatras in Slovakia in the last two years, the difference in appearances of those … read more
Kriváň, October 1
Predné Solisko, October 2
Rysy, October 3
As opposed to my summer tours, I steered for the western parts of the High Tatras mountain range (not to be confused with the “Western Tatras” or “Západné Tatry”) this autumn .
The town of Štrbské Pleso, the final station of the meter-gauge railway Tatranské Elektrické Železnice (TEŽ), was my actual starting point for exploring the valleys … read more
