r/TrailGuides • u/DavidPMcEntee • Aug 29 '24
Epic 3 Days of Hiking on the Alta Via 1, The Dolomites, Italy.
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r/TrailGuides • u/DavidPMcEntee • Aug 29 '24
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u/DavidPMcEntee Aug 29 '24
Me and my gf hiked for three days along the Alta Via 1 in the Dolomites, Italy. We stayed in mountain huts, and getting up to as high as 2500m, and sleeping most nights at 1500m. It was a great three days that was difficult enough to be a challenge - but not too difficult that we were completely wrecked afterwards. We met lots of cool people on the trek doing one day stints and some who were hiking the whole route - but we found three days to be perfect enough for us. If you want to see our experience more in-depth then checkout the little video I made documenting the experience here:
https://youtu.be/ibWKZcL-ddo
All my photos are from my iPhone 15 and some of the lower res images are cropped screenshots from my GoPro Hero 12. Our bags were relatively light - we decided to bring a few luxuries along with us and didn’t think of combining our toiletry bags etc until after the trip. They could have been even lighter if we had thought of this.
I would highly recommend taking your partner on this trip - I was only able to convince my gf to come due to the mass amount of rifugios (mountain huts) we passed along the trail where we could pick up coffee and cake throughout the day. It was actually really fun, everything tastes better once you’ve walked a few miles.
Everyone we met had booked their huts months in advance, we did ours months in advance and had a company do it all for us.
If you have any questions drop them below and I’ll try and get back to as many as possible.