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Title: Six days in the Italian mountains.
Post by: Viola on July 11, 2011, 06:11:04 PM

Six days in the Italian mountains. Accompanied by my wife and my grandson.

Day one - Fedaia sea:

Canazai - Valle di Fassa
Marmolada - Fedaia sea
Rhododendron ferrugineum
Rhododendron ferrugineum

Title: Re: Six days in the Italian mountains.
Post by: Viola on July 11, 2011, 06:21:39 PM

Day one - Fedaia sea:

Lilium martagon
Campanula barbata
Saxifraga paniculata
Sempervivum dolomitica
Astragalus alpinus

Title: Re: Six days in the Italian mountains.
Post by: Viola on July 11, 2011, 06:29:19 PM

Patrick my grandson
Papaver rhaeticum
Papaver rhaeticum
Carex spec.
Saxifraga crustata

Title: Re: Six days in the Italian mountains.
Post by: Maggi Young on July 11, 2011, 06:55:26 PM

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Patrick my grandson

Karl, it seems your entire family are clever mountain goats/climbers  8)  This is lucky for us, to be able to get these photos, thank you!

Title: Re: Six days in the Italian mountains.
Post by: Viola on July 12, 2011, 12:06:17 PM

Thank you Maggi, it was really beautiful days in the Italian mountains.

Day two:
Passo di Rolle - Monte Castellazzo - Cavallazzo

Monte Castellazzo
War memorial at the Monte Castellazzo
Memory of the positional warfare in the first World War
Patrick at the peak
Daphne cneorum

Title: Re: Six days in the Italian mountains.
Post by: Maggi Young on July 12, 2011, 12:13:16 PM

What a clear sky over Monte Castellazzo - how do you manage to get such good weather for your trips? :)

Title: Re: Six days in the Italian mountains.
Post by: Viola on July 12, 2011, 12:13:31 PM

Christine and Patrick at the advancement in the background the Cimo di Palla
Dactylorhiza fuchsii 2+3
Nigritella nigra
Gymnadenia conopsea

Title: Re: Six days in the Italian mountains.
Post by: Peter Maguire on July 12, 2011, 12:18:35 PM

Lovely pictures Karl, I see you had good weather too.

The Dolomites seem to have been over-run with SRGC forum members this year.  8)

Title: Re: Six days in the Italian mountains.
Post by: Viola on July 12, 2011, 12:33:05 PM

Maggi, well-behaved people also are rewarded.
We are in pension and can choose us the time. The weather was fine in the south of the Alps, in the north it has rained and it was cold.

Protection bunker
Karl
Gentiana punctata
Gentiana clusii
Silene acaulis

Title: Re: Six days in the Italian mountains.
Post by: Viola on July 12, 2011, 01:11:53 PM

There is the mountain made of silicate rock at the Castellazza only not far from the rolling passport. The burr is made holes in again of the first World War with old positions there. More wax Leontopodium alpina, Eritrichum nanum, Primula glutinosa, Saxifraga paniculata  and much above.
One has a magnificent view of the surrounding mountains over San Martino from here.

Title: Re: Six days in the Italian mountains.
Post by: Viola on July 12, 2011, 01:26:11 PM

How badly had at that time to have been for the soldier winters. partial are the ways only 50 cm widely.

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Title: Re: Six days in the Italian mountains.
Post by: JohnnyD on July 12, 2011, 06:16:27 PM

I love that view at the top. WOW! :o
Super stuff Viola - Thanks.
JohnnyD

Title: Re: Six days in the Italian mountains.
Post by: Viola on July 12, 2011, 07:16:36 PM

Day three:
Passo Pordoi, Patonberge, Bindelweg

The Patonberge consist of volcano rock and have a particularly beautiful flora. The finest weather has accompanied us also here again.

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Title: Re: Six days in the Italian mountains.
Post by: Viola on July 12, 2011, 07:23:37 PM

Flora of the Pantonberge.

Anemone baldensis
Brassica repanda
Gentiana verna
Gentiana verna
Doronicum grandiflorum

Title: Re: Six days in the Italian mountains.
Post by: Viola on July 12, 2011, 07:29:01 PM

Flora of the Pantonberge.

Lichen (Flechte)
Loydia serotina
Papaver rhaetica
Tlaspi rotundifolia
Tlaspi rotundifolia Alba

Title: Re: Six days in the Italian mountains.
Post by: Viola on July 12, 2011, 07:34:14 PM

Flora of the Pantonberge.

Geum reptans
Primula halleri
Ranunculus glacialis
Pulsatilla alpina ssp.apiifolia
Eritrichum nanum

Title: Re: Six days in the Italian mountains.
Post by: Martinr on July 12, 2011, 07:58:08 PM

Great pictures Karl. When I see Thlaspi rotundifolia in a picture I can still smell it, one of the most gorgeous plant scents there is (to my nose anyway).

Title: Re: Six days in the Italian mountains.
Post by: Viola on July 13, 2011, 10:46:19 AM

Day four:
Only, yesterday afternoon, we went in the direction of Lake Garda, Lac Ledro, Lac Idro and up to the Passo crozedomini where we stayed on a Malga.
We find out the very flora rich mountain slopes the next day and return to Lake Garda to Sirmione where we could recover from the effort a little.

Embellish Alpine pasture meadow 1+2+3
Lilium bulbiferum ssp. croceum
Viola calcarata

Title: Re: Six days in the Italian mountains.
Post by: Viola on July 13, 2011, 11:09:35 AM

Feast for the eyes
Anemone narcissiflora
Lilium martagon
Marmota marmota
Leucanthemopsis alpina

Title: Re: Six days in the Italian mountains.
Post by: Viola on July 13, 2011, 11:34:57 AM

Swim and round off a comfortable shipping the day. On the day six we drive home again.

Karl