Ferda and I coasted down from Passo Sella to Ortisei. We parked our bikes and didn’t touch them for about 10 days. The main goal was to spend time with my parents and my brother and his family for our first visit since covid started. Elise (or was it Kevin?) found a comfortable house to rent in Ortisei. We had a wonderful holiday in Val Gardena. Here I’ll just show some photos of our four via ferrata days (Piccolo Cir, Oskar Schuster, Tridentina al Pisciadù, Sass Rigais).
Having done a couple via ferrata in Slovenia and a couple more in the Dolomites on the way to Ortisei, Ferda and I were clearly the experts (!). For starters we decided to take Kevin, Elise, Jasper, and Zoë up Piccolo Cir. I had read in multiple places that accommodation in Ortisei comes with cards to use the public transportation in Val Gardena. Be warned of two things: renting a house may not include those cards (ours didn’t) and you cannot start your mountain excursion early if you wait for the first bus of the morning. For Piccolo Cir we took a taxi to Passo Gardena, more because we were eight people without bus cards than because we needed an early start.
It was a short walk to Rifugio Jimmy:
Another short walk, and we were at the start of the route. I showed Zoë and Jasper how to use the via ferrata equipment, and they were off and running.
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