I got my bags packed on a roll heading out there and I'm ready to go looking real good

in my passport photo.

Amateur Traveler episode 811. Today the amateur traveler talks about peaks and lakes, tunnels

and World War I, multi-day hiking and refugios as we talk about hiking the Altavia 1 in the

Dolomites of Italy.

Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen

let's talk about the Dolomites in Northern Italy.

I'd like to welcome to the show Morgan fielder from crave the planet.com

who's come to talk to us about a beautiful region in northern Italy.

Morgan welcome to the show.

Thanks Chris.

And what are we talking about today?

So we're talking about the dolomites in northern Italy and using Cortina Dampezzo as a home base.

Excellent, and what's your connection? Cortina Dampezzo is a home base.

Excellent.

And what's your connection with the region?

My connection with the region is that it's become an annual family pilgrimage. So every summer summer the kids and family friends from all over the

world we meet there and we do a five-day hut to-hut hiking trip through the Dolomites on the Altavio 1 trail.

Excellent.

And why should someone else do that?

Why should someone go to the Dolomites?

Somebody that wants to ignite wonder and just be in a place where the landscape is so spectacular

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