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It’s breathtakingly, beautiful. Beyond words, really.
3 hours agoMost gondolas take bikes nowadays. So take your pick, but a word of advice, know what sort of riding you’ll be doing. My recommendation for cycling in the meadows would be the gondola from Seiser am Schlern, near Kastelruhe. There is a fantastic road back to the village at the end of the day, an added bonus. From the Ortesei lift, the trails are more suited to hiking.
3 hours agoYes, there are lots of busses. It looked to me the public busses had spaces for bikes, but you would have to check that out. Longer distance busses certainly do take folding bikes in with the luggage. Ortesei is the centre of tourism in the valley, so it’s the busiest of the three. As for the season, October is a real roll of the dice. Anything from sunshine to two feet of snow can be expected. That applies to mid-September as well.
3 hours agoGreat idea! 🤣
4 hours agoDavid could replicate that as a birdhouse / feeder in a snap.
4 hours agoNothing better than a bit of boogey shoe to start the days’ ride 🎶
Gotta love those tunnels too!
Yes, we were flying past it and I’m so glad I stopped to check it out. The variations in snowfall are pretty dramatic. And not what you’d think.
12 hours agoAgreed, but it’s often the case that they don’t touch the outside of the buildings and focus only on the insides. We have seen this over and over, just not in this region of Italy.
12 hours agoExactly, & great to have, like concert tickets.
At some point, they should all be lined up together, like the trophies they are! 🏆
Seeing the pics on google map, it does not look maintained at all.
Nevertheless, it is still a very intriguing looking structure.
That is a very clever way to have a visual representation of the weather, as well as a very interesting art installation.
13 hours agoHaha, that moniker just might stick, Gondola Man 👍
13 hours agoI'm really glad this came up, because it wouldn't have occurred to me otherwise. There are a few of the bus lines that take bicycles if there's space, including the line from Bressanone to Ortesei. And, there's a cable car from Ortesei to Seiser Alm that takes bikes too, and runs through the end of October. If we're lucky with weather it would be brilliant to bundle up nd bike the plateau while Rachael took a hike..
14 hours agoWe don't do real passes any more, but we've got to find our way to get up to Ortesei again this fall - maybe leave the bikes below and take the bus up from Brunico. We stayed there for five nights in the winter on an x-country ski trip years ago and took that tram up to the plateau every day. Surely the best x-country skiing experience of our lives, but I've always wanted to come back and see it in the summer too.
16 hours ago
Who knows what conditions will be like in late October, of course. We're going to just book as we go when the time comes and see what the weather brings. It's just nice to know that this is a possibility, one I hadn't thought of.
2 hours ago