Pictures from my vacation in Italy in September/October 2005
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September 26 This is another view from Passo di Gardena. The mountains tend to be more craggy in the Dolomites than in the Swiss or Austrian Alps. It had rained sometime during the night, so the roads were a little wet in places where the sun hadn't gotten to. It was fairly cold up here in the morning, so I was glad for the heated handgrips. |
September 26 This is another view from Passo di Gardena. |
September 26 There were other motorcyclists out enjoying the Alpen roads. |
September 26 This is our group at the first coffee stop for the morning, on the far side of Passo di Gardena. |
September 26 Mountains in the mist... From here, we rode over Passo di Campolongo, through Arabba, then south... |
September 26 We were planning on having lunch at this little place (in the background) near Passo di Pellegrino, but it was closed. So we rode a little further and had lunch in Soraga. From there we rode through Val di Egga, which is a beautiful narrow canyon with sheer walls. During the day, we got just a little bit of rain. When we got back to the hotel, we had ridden about 180 KM. |
September 27 The weather started out nice enough today. We headed east to Barbian and from there, over some really narrow winding roads to Vanga. Soon the clouds and fog were rolling in, which was a shame, since there was a point on the road that would have had some outstanding views high over Bolzano. This is our first coffee stop, I think somewhere near Ponticino. Shortly after we left here, it started raining. We continued on over Passo di Pennes (also known as Penserjoch). |
September 27 This is the view from the top at Passo di Mt Giovo. |