Sunday, February 25, 2024

skiing @ sellaronda, south tirol, IT

sellaronda, south tirol, italy - skiing one round around the sella massif ~ my best skiing experience ever! it should be a beautiful panorama tour, it was a pure fog 2/3 of the day and then came the sun rays at few places through the clouds in the sky => unbelievable beautiful scenery, my dears 🏂😀☃🍀

well, we have been visiting friends in natz, südtirol. as we have stayed almost one week here, i could go skiing to plose + sellaronda circle on the weekend and work 3 days online after that. it is really strange + unbelievable, but i've seen both, the plose massiv + the dolomiti of sella massiv & langkofel last august. do you dare to jump to the summer time dolomiti first?

selllaronda, close to wolkenstein
sellaronda ski circle, the green direction. next time i'm gonna try the opposite +
little bit easier orange way. instead of sankt christina (s. cristina) i would start
from nearby wolkenstein (heaven & hell, how do the italians call it?). what was
wrong with s. christina? it was not easy to find the correct downhill path, so i + 1
nice german snowboarders couple rushed TWICE down the opposite valley of the
hills + landed in plan de gralba short before the cable cars closed for the day 😱 
the sella massif + sellaronda skiing ~ south tirol, italy, IT
lunch break at the jimmi's hütte
wolkenstein = selva gardena in grödnertal valley. bingo 😃
sellaronda, source here
our 'panorama' in the morning
ice tunnel somewhere down the road
the marmolata aka marmolada view i've dreamt off to see. painting by
paul linke (1844-1917). source wiki commons free to use license here
marmolada i've seen as part of the sellaronda tour. btw, the cable car
to the top was out of service today ... due to too much snow? ☃
arabba / marmolada, alba, canazei, val di fassa, dolomiti superski, ...
the first sun rays at my sellaronda tour. what a joy for me 😇
sellaronda, passo gardena?
dolomites / dolomiten / dolomiti, UNESCO heritage
jimmi's hütte again. i'm close to wolkenstein now, my forelast hop
sellaronda, wolkenstein
hotel cir?
sellaronda, wolkenstein
rescue helicopter at sellaronda, wolkenstein
wolkenstein, down in the village
it is around 5 o'clock => really late => most lifts are closed already
sellaronda, close to st. christina, finally!
sellaronda, st. christina

our nice stay in natz in the klementhof appartments. very suitable for mobile work either 💻

klementhof residence, natz, south tyrol, italy
poor fellow, i'm so sorry for you ... 
i hope, at least you've had a nice life before standing here
my mobile work paradise = laptop + coffee 😄
the small garden shack at klementhof
arts?
good-bye, klementhot
the church in natz
natz
coat of arms (south) tirol
coat of arms of tourism business in south tirol

day #1, plose massif: quite a fog here at plose, isnt it?

plose massif = telegraph, pfannspitz + gabler (= monte forca, 2576m)
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#6 this are the possible views from plose? i cant confirm, my dears. who can?
#7 my foggy views at plose today most of the time ...
the highest peak at plose, gabler 2576m. no ski lifts out there
few of the clouds above and few below me ⛄⛅🌁

on the road: germany + austria + italy = snow + snow + snow

germany, bavaria, close to mittenwald + the austrian border 
we have had to wait 4.5 hours at the brennerpass at the austrian border to italy due to too much snow and stood still trucks in all 3 or 4 lines. shame on the truckers! if they only blocked the 1-2 right lines, everything would be fine ... even the rescue cars and snow service trucks couldnt drive through for 10 hours or more ...
dinner in bavaria in the sonnenhof klais, short after the austrian border

even more pictures here.