Italy

Climbing Trip Reports

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This page provides links to my trip reports in Italy, which so far I have visited on two occasions. The first time was in Nov-Dec 2010, when I spent five weeks in northern Italy as a TA for an engineering course at the ROSE School in Pavia. Despite the fact that I had a broken leg (due to a serious climbing accident that fall), making Italy an obstacle course of train stations, Fiats, cobblestones, and stairs, I managed to do several unique day trips to nearby areas (like Cinque Terre, Lake Como, Certosa di Pavia, Pisa, Lucca, Milan, Trento-Bolzano-Renon, and Venice). Since at the time I planned on someday climbing in the Dolomites, writing a trip report of my crutching adventures was a good way to set up an Italy section for my website.

Indeed, three years later, in August 2013, following a hiking trip in Switzerland with my parents, I met up with my friend from Munich and we climbed some long moderate classic routes in the Dolomites. Hopefully I will be back again, but Italy is pretty far from Washington so it might be awhile.

You can access the trip reports by clicking on the interactive map below or scrolling to the list below that.

Trip Report Navigation Option 1: 

Clickable Map

Click on the locations on the map to go to a trip report.

New version using Google maps:
Icon key:
Technical summit
Nontechncal summit
Cragging
Hike
Lookout
Lake
Bike trip
Kayak trip
Aerial photography
Photography
Old version using Photoshop (still updated, but no longer clickable): 
Trip Report Navigation Option 2: 

Alphabetical List by Area

Click on the dated links in the right column to go to a trip report.

Dolomites

Summit/Area
Route
Date/Link

SALAMITURM

SAS PORDOI

TOFANA DI RÒZES

Italy on Crutches

Area
Route
Date/Link
  1. PAVIA
  2. CINQUE TERRE
  3. LAKE COMO
  4. CERTOSA DI PAVIA
  5. PISA
  6. LUCCA
  7. MILAN
  8. TRENTO - BOLZANO - RITTNER HORN DI RENON
  9. VENICE
  1. Beautiful old town where I stayed for 5 weeks.
  2. Five colorful villages perched on the water; I went to Riomaggiore, Manarola, and Vernazza.
  3. One of Italy's most beautiful and largest lakes; I went to Bellagio and Como.
  4. One of the most lavish and notable buildings of the Italian Renaissance.
  5. Crutching up the 296 leaning stairs of the Tower of Pisa.
  6. A quintessential walled town in Tuscany.
  7. Largest urban area in Italy, with a grand cathedral.
  8. Cable cars and Dolomite mountain views.
  9. This world-famous city is an enchanting maze of canals and streets.