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szewczyk12
Feb 22, 2005, 8:46 PM
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Anybody been to the Dolomites lately? If you have, did you use a local guide?
Please give me some contact info. if you have it.
thanks
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macherry
Feb 22, 2005, 9:10 PM
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macherry moved this thread from Community to International.
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piton
Feb 22, 2005, 9:53 PM
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hey cor i have the info for you. talk to you
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adamwvt
Feb 22, 2005, 10:34 PM
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I'm interested too.
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danabart
Feb 22, 2005, 10:37 PM
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We went to the Dolomites with just a guidebook, neither of us spoke Italian and we had no problems.
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adamwvt
Feb 22, 2005, 10:48 PM
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I'll be going on a honeymoon, and the fiance said I could have a day or two to climb. So, I thought it would be best to hire a guide, somthing I have never done before.
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matteo
Feb 26, 2005, 3:59 AM
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Unfortunatly I've never seen a guide English for the Dolomites, but there're many in Italian and German and some of them have a good topo so you can understand very easily.
The Dolomites are pretty big so depend in wich area would you like to climb, but a good one might be "arrampicare in val Gardena" or something like that, a good selection of middle grade climbs in the Dolomites.
I'll found many guides in Trento, Bolzano and probably in other small town in the area.
ciao ciao
Matteo
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broesel
Feb 26, 2005, 7:10 PM
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As it was said before, the Dolomites describe a pretty big area. One of the most impressive part is a place called the "Brenta". However, if you only got two days.... the hike in takes about three hours. On the other hand if you want to climb ONE thing, it has to be "Campanile Basso", a terrific spire, uncommon for the southern alps. Canīt remeber the grades.
The climbing, mountain-biking and being-rich-and-hanging-around place is Arco, at the northern tip of Lake Garda. Tons of sport and sport/trad routes around there, pretty sure they have guidebooks in english, if not topos are really good. Arco itself wouldnīt be a bad place to spend a honeymoon either (not too far from Venice(lol)).
enjoy
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szewczyk12
Feb 27, 2005, 12:34 AM
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I am hoping to spend 2-3 weeks in the Dolomites. If you can recommend some more trad routes, I am listening :D I started leading 5.8 g rated routes last season. I understand the climbing is commiting... so I've been picking out the IV and IV+ classic routes.
thank you
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danabart
Feb 27, 2005, 12:46 AM
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There are two English guidebooks to the Dolomites, and they may still be available. The Alpine Club of Britain has one which is comprehensive, and Al Churcher has a selected climbs guide.
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matteo
Feb 28, 2005, 3:55 AM
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Must do in the Dolomites around grade IV+ :
Brenta: Castelletto Inferiore: Kiene 300m, beautiful
Campanil basso: Normale, 300m, nice but often crowded
Campanil Alto: spigolo NW, 600m, beautiful
Sella:Sass Pordoi, via Maria, 250m
Fedele, 600m
Catinaccio: tre torri del vajolet: spigolo Delago, 150m
If you have never climbed before in the Dolomites Passo Sella could be a nice place to get your fet wet: hips of climbs on the "tre torri del sella and Piz Ciavazes"
ciao ciao
Matteo
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