Tre Cime nature park

The last few days have been hard on my body. Plus I think Schopper is annoyed with me. So today I decided to take it easy. This means going for a 10 km hike up at 2400 m around the iconic peaks of the Tre Cime nature park.

The road up has 20% gradients. Thankfully, there's a bus I could take. Not just for gradients, but the road was full of cars heading up to fill up all five of the parking lots by 9 am.

I could see why. This natural park provides easy access to spectacular mountains, particularly the famous three peaks. As I walked a loop, I found it easier to walk faster rather than slow. My legs are now pistons that run at bicycling cadence. Not a rest day really, but it was an easier pace to enjoy magnificent mountains.

I considered staying another night, but the hike and the campsite had too many people for my liking. So at 5 pm I did what seemed most logical: I bought some blueberry grappa and I set out for Austria.Read more