Dave learned about hiking in the Dolomites from a friend, and after that always wanted to do it. We had been snowboarding in the Dolomites when we lived in Padova, so I knew they were beautiful. I had no idea what a great experience being there in the summer would be.
We wrapped up our time in Padova with a big dinner on Tuesday night. Wednesday morning we caught a 40 minute train to Verona, and then rented a car at the train station. The trip up to where we were going was 2 1/2 hours. We stopped about 2 hours in to have lunch. The town we stopped in definitely has both German/Austrian and Italian influence. Lots of the architecture looks German, and people spoke a combination of German, English and Italian. After lunch, we took a series of two cable cars up a mountain to get a look at the surroundings. It was absolutely gorgeous. The Dolomites stick straight up into the air, making them very dramatic. There were clouds below mountain level, which was really cool as well.
Then we drove up the rest of the way to where we were going to park our car. Dave made sure we were good to leave the car there, and Ben had a brioche. (Despite his posts, I do think he had a good time. At least with eating.) We grabbed our bags and decided to hike up to our rifugio rather than take the cable cars, which were so tiny they called them coffin cars.
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