The Dolomites: Biking the Alpe di Siusi

After hiking the Alpe di Siusi on our first full day in the Dolomites, we decided to take a biking tour offered by our resort in the same place. Only three of us headed out that morning to take the same cable car to the top of the mountain. This time, however, low clouds obscured the views heading up. We wondered what kind of day we would have on the trails.

Fortunately, when we got to the top, we found that we were above the clouds, and we actually had beautiful weather for biking (i.e., not too hot).

We were very glad to have e-bikes as we definitely did a lot of climbing in our ride. As you can see, the views were once again spectacular, and we visited several areas that we had not seen on our hike the day before.

We stopped for coffee at one of the many huts scattered around the Alpe di Siusi, and saw some spectacular photography of the area from a young local photographer. While we were there, we grabbed a picture with our touring companion, Michael.

As the day continued, the views continued changing with the changing light, but remained spectacular throughout (that is our guide, Patrick, in the photo on the right).

Rather than ride the cable car back down the mountain, we took the main road most of the way down. This was a bit difficult for Shana, because she does not like to go fast on a bike, and really does not like riding in traffic. Fortunately, the number of cars, and especially trucks, is limited and she didn't have too much difficulty. On the way down, we got great pictures of the cable car we had taken up.

We did not return directly to our starting point, Seis, but road along a trail above the next main town, Castelrotto, which looked adorable from our view point.

As Castelrotto was our next stop on the trip, we can confirm that it is just as adorable as it looked from above, but we did not head into town on our bike tour as we all wanted to get back in time for our afternoon "snack" and to relax after a fabulous ride.

More soon.

Ciao,

Jeff and Shana