After a warm - up day on the local slopes of Selva Di Val Gardena / Wolkenstein in Groden, we ventured out to do the iconic Sella Ronda circuit. The route covers close to 40km as it winds around an impressive buttress of the Sella Mountain Range, dropping in and out of picturesque Tyrolean Alpine villages, all offering corduroy groomed slopes and excellent coffee in refugios scattered all over the hills. Skiers flock from all over the world to experience this circuit which can be done in both clockwise and counterclockwise directions and involves travelling on just about every kind of skier transporting device you can imagine. We lost count of both the number of different languages we heard and the variety of chair lifts we rode, including gondolas, trams, funiculars, funitels, funifors (and even extra-cushy heated 6 person chair lifts!) all strung together in an amazing feat of engineering, logistics and commerce. We also saw a guy with a size twelve helmet doing its best to encircle his size 16 melon and in so doing, causing quivering rolls of pink German flesh to ooze out from all sides like a chaos of escaped sausages. The kids thought this was amusing and it appears we are in the land of Schadenfreude...
Today we did the "Orange" or clockwise route and will return in a few days after the "BIG DUMP OF SNOW" to do it all backwards.
Today we did the "Orange" or clockwise route and will return in a few days after the "BIG DUMP OF SNOW" to do it all backwards.
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