For our last hiking day in Val Gardena, Val and I picked a shorter and easier loop on the other side of the valley. Looking at the maps, Alpe di Siusi seemed to fit what we wanted, the only thig was that we needed to hop on a lift to get up there. Once at the station, we considered our options to come back down which included taken one of the several trail or, ride the lift back down. At the station we learned that they do this intelligently. If you buy the round trip, it’s cheaper than getting a single leg, so buying only the way up and then deciding whether we wanted to take the lift down, would have cost us much more. With that, we just got a pair of round trip tickets and got on the little red gondola that would take us up. The ride was smooth and on the way we got really nice view of the city. Towards the top we could see clearly the entire Resciesa Ridge that we had hiked the previous day. Once we got off the Gondola, we walked to a completely different scenery. Certainly we had the huge peaks all around us, but just below we had an immense expanse of rolling meadows. It almost looked like a postcard. The first part of the loop started but going down the hill and passing several hotels and refugios marketed for winter sports even though several had summer activities as well. One of them had a petting farm with Lamas, Cows and Ponies while another had a pool. A lot of these places had even their own lifts so we guessed that in the winter, you just hope on, and sky around the area trying not to land in the lobby of one of these establishments. The hike was easy and picturesque with wildflowers on the ground and immense rocky peaks in the distance. It was certainly different from what we expected but beautiful none the less.
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