Wish You Were Here: High in the Italian Dolomites

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Wish You Were Here

ITALY: Los Altos residents Tom Shoup and his wife, Ellen Barker, visited Italy the first week of September on a trip that included stops in Milan and a hiking tour in the Italian Dolomites, a stunning, craggy mountain range in the northeastern part of the country. “We flew to Milan, where we took a tour of the rooftop terraces of the Duomo,” Tom says, “before taking the train to Bolzano, the gateway to the Dolomites.”

TRAVEL TIPS: Winter comes early at such high elevation. “We had wonderful fall weather but learned it snowed the following week! The Dolomites are similar to the high Sierra in terms of terrain but much more accessible by car and bus with plenty of ski lifts to help with the climbs or descents.”

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