After the lovely hiking weekend with Rita near Cortina d’Ampezzo, for the drive back we chose one of the many lesser-known passes and drove over the Passo Falzarego back to Lake Constance. Not a bad decision: another beautiful mountain landscape and countless hairpin bends. Of course I had to unpack the drone too. The pass is 2,105 metres high; from here a gondola rises to the Lagazuoi, which saw heavy fighting in the First World War – the mine tunnel the Italians dug under the Austro-Hungarian lines is open to visitors today. So here are the last pictures from the Dolomites:
Pale rock needles between dark spruces – the drive back from Cortina d’Ampezzo starts with a view.A single large cloud above the snow-covered massif.Pale summits above the forest, big clouds drifting across the blue sky.Dark rock, streaks of snow in the gullies and a cloud like a hat.A long, jagged ridge with snowfields – choosing one of the many lesser-known passes had paid off.Hairpin after hairpin through the forest, a lone car in one of the bends.A single hairpin cuts through the dense conifer forest on the Passo Falzarego.The road curls into a tight S-bend, tree shadows falling across the tarmac.A rock massif like a castle, a big cloud above it.A break beside the hairpin, the high rock wall of the Passo Falzarego above him.Countless hairpins wind across the brown slope, patches of snow in between.A tiny figure in red stands in the hairpin – the pass lies at 2,105 metres.A steep wall streaked with snow gullies under a grey sky – fierce fighting raged around the Lagazuoi in the First World War.Marker posts line the pass road, the rock towers standing behind.Clouds over the valley, a jagged ridge on the horizon – the last pictures from the Dolomites.
