Walking in Europe

A blog of Angus and Alison's walking tour of the Tour de Mont Blanc, Via degli Dei the Dobratsch Circuit in Carinthia, Austria, the Dolomites, Venice, and Iceland

Category: Europe Walk

Posts from Walking in Europe

  • Sub-title: Big ascents, big kms, even bigger mountain views… July 29… Yesterday was a cloudless sky (yay!) as we packed up the tent, took the bus back into Courmayeur and climbed up through the cobble streets and picked up the TMB trail at the edge of town which took us up, up through a beautiful…

  • Quick post from the beautiful village of Courmayeur before setting off NE along the Mont de la Saxe to Rifugio Bonatti. Yesterday we set off from Elisabetta in a sprinkle rain down along the valley then a steady climb along the side of the Val Veny, weather brightening as we go. We cheated at the…

  • A spectacular day today with a slow steady climb swinging NE out of Les Chapieux up a steep sided valley through farmland and eventually a series of switchbacks, up up to the Col de la Seigne at 2518m elevation and the border between France and Italy. The weather was pretty much everything. Started out beautiful…