Snow on Dolomites

Thank you! We were in that area on a glorious sunny day last September 29. Mountain weather does change.

Oh boy, we leave two week from Saturday for Val Gardena.

(obviously, nobody has winter tyres)

Didn't look like it was really sticking to the pavement.

Are all season tires, not common there? Do folks have two sets of tires for their cars?

Oh, that Golden is adorable! Having such a good time in the snow. Pretty slushy on the road surface.

Supposed to be more typical by next week. Unfortunately we leave tues

I think all season tires are the norm in European cars. They are often the same cars we see in the US. Jeep (part of Stellantis) are made in Italy for the European market and are a very popular brand. Not that all season tires work too well if it snows heavily and you don’t have AWD, but cars have them nowadays,

In Ortisei now. Unseasonably cold, snow dusting Mont Sëuc, Rasciesa, and Bulla. Might hit 39 F today. At least little or no rain in the forecast.

We head to Compatsch tomorrow which looks like this at 8:30 am https://seiseralm.panomax.com/.

Looks like my base layer (aka long undies) and merino tee+fleece will get a few days of wear.

A couple of days ago I was eating lunch and drinking beer in shirtsleeves on the Seceda Mastle!

More weird weather events.. snow in the Dolomites in September and another post says Vienna is going to get 10 inches of rain over the weekend!

Unfortunately the following news are not so funny. A Canadian tourist freezed to death while hiking yesterday in Val Gardena. She and her husband called the emergency service around 8pm but the helicopter could not land due to bad weather; in spite of an emergency group reaching them by midnight, the husband could be rescued only at 6am and she was already dead.

We were in Ortisei and then up in the mountains September two years ago. The city was temperate and comfortable but up on the mountain there wasn’t any snow but there was a wicked cold wind that felt like winter.

Oh gosh,so sad about the Canadian tourist. I was kind of shocked at the youtube video in the initial post with the folks who looked like they were doing substantial hiking in shorts. The guy with the golden retriever had on shorts but he looked like he was in the car so a different set up.

Very tragic news about the Canadian couple. Local contacts here in Ortisei said the couple was doing a hut-to-hut hike and got started late in the day with the intention of making it to the reserved spot. I am not clear on exactly where but in the Puezgruppo.

Snow on the Pic du Midi de Bigorre in the Pyrenees, too.

It was Schlüterhütte to Puezhütte, the sort of hike that takes the better part of a day. It is not the kind of hike for unfit or inexperienced people; if they started late in a day when bad weather was expected, it looks like a serious error that turned fatal.

Yesterday wasn’t a good day for hiking because it was cold and raining. BTW, Laurel, I think I saw you the other day in a light blue jacket. I should’ve stopped you and asked you to sign your book for me 8-)

Awww, Samuel, sorry to have missed you but it probably was not me. No light blue along on this trip! Leaving today for the Alpe di Siusi, if you are up there, message me!

We will arrive in Kastelruth on this coming Wednesday for a week of hiking. Looking at the Seiser Alm webcams, I see the snow-covered ground around the Puflatsch, Florianlift, and Spitzbuhl lifts. But I see on some of the other webcams a lot of ground that doesn’t have snow. Is it possible to reach those areas by gondola and to go hiking there? Thanks!

Snow this early often melts, so look at the near term forecast.