Snowboarding the Dolomites

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Snowboarding the Dolomites

 Europe » Italy » Dolomites By shilpa_dara
April 4th 2007
Dara and ShilpaWe visited the Dolomites a few years ago on a snow holiday and it was an area we definitly wanted to go back to on this trip, and hopefully will get a chance to visit again in the future. Its an amazing mountain range, very different to anything else we have seen. The mountains are formed of anceint coral reefs that were once under the sea.

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Photos

Dolomiti
The slopes of the mountains are quite high and even then there are these massive cliffs looming above you. Awesome.

Friendly Campers
This is a friendly well travelled German couple we met at the campsite in Corvara. While we were freezing in our van they invited us over to their lovely warm caravan where one evening they showed us loads of off beaten track places to visit in eastern europe and another evening they cooked us a fabulous fondu and wine meal. They even played us some Dubliners music to make Dara fell at home!

Brrrrrr.....!!!!!!
With the snow came bitter cold nights. One night Dara woke up at 4am with the shivers so we spent an hour in the wash room to warm up! At this point we were tempted to book into a hotel to thaw out, but luckily the lady at the campsite lent us a heater which allowed us to survive in the van for the rest of the week.

Powder snow
After a few days stuck in the van because of heavy snow we enjoyed some great powder snow and off piste boarding in the dolimites :)

Lunch Stop
These catholic obsessed itallians have lots of crosses around the place.