Skiing in Italy - Part 3
R and I just finished up our week of skiing in the Italian Dolomiti Mountains. During the week, we encountered all of the different types of weather that you can expect on a mountain in February. This includes: beautiful powder snow falling, a warm, sunny day, a cold sunny day and a freakin' freezing, windy, cloudy snowy day.
Thursday was pretty brutal on top of the mountain. Temperatures were -12 C and it was windy and snowing pretty hard. For a couple of hours, the top of the mountain was a complete white out. You couldn't see more than 10 feet in front of you and you couldn't even judge the bumps in the terrain. Not the best skiing in the world but it was fun - in a crazy, sadistic kind of way.
Now for the bad news. As I mentioned in my last post, the Dolomiti Mountain range is damn near gorgeous. If there is a more picturesque skiing spot in the world, I haven't seen it yet. Since we only had our big SLR camera, we didn't want to bring it up on the mountain every day. It was too big and bulky. And, at my rate of falling, I was sure to break it.
R waited until the end of the week to skip skiing and just spend a day focusing on photography. She had the idea to do this on Friday morning. Unfortunately, the weather can change on the mountain pretty fast. By the time she decided to make her way to the top of the mountain, the clouds came in and severely limited visibility. So we don't have any great shots from the mountain peak. The pictures below are just a few random shots we collected throughout the week.
Finally, we have some of the worst shot video footage of all time. R is skiing down the mountain while I attempt to follow her while holding a Flip camcorder. This video is not pretty and is not for those that easily fall prey to motion sickness. But it does show the great snow we had on the mountain
Thursday was pretty brutal on top of the mountain. Temperatures were -12 C and it was windy and snowing pretty hard. For a couple of hours, the top of the mountain was a complete white out. You couldn't see more than 10 feet in front of you and you couldn't even judge the bumps in the terrain. Not the best skiing in the world but it was fun - in a crazy, sadistic kind of way.
Now for the bad news. As I mentioned in my last post, the Dolomiti Mountain range is damn near gorgeous. If there is a more picturesque skiing spot in the world, I haven't seen it yet. Since we only had our big SLR camera, we didn't want to bring it up on the mountain every day. It was too big and bulky. And, at my rate of falling, I was sure to break it.
R waited until the end of the week to skip skiing and just spend a day focusing on photography. She had the idea to do this on Friday morning. Unfortunately, the weather can change on the mountain pretty fast. By the time she decided to make her way to the top of the mountain, the clouds came in and severely limited visibility. So we don't have any great shots from the mountain peak. The pictures below are just a few random shots we collected throughout the week.
Finally, we have some of the worst shot video footage of all time. R is skiing down the mountain while I attempt to follow her while holding a Flip camcorder. This video is not pretty and is not for those that easily fall prey to motion sickness. But it does show the great snow we had on the mountain
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