"Snowboarding the Dolomites" G_shook's photos around Arabba, Italy (snowboarding in dolomites)

Preview of G_shook's blog at TravelPod. Read the full blog here: www.travelpod.com This blog preview was made by TravelPod using the TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow creator. Entry from: Arabba, Italy Entry Title: "Snowboarding the Dolomites" Entry: "We wanted to see some snow-capped mountains so headed to northern Italy (retracing our route a little) to see the Dolomites. With little reference on where to stay we picked a spot off the Internet and went. Lucky for us it was right at the base of 5 lifts up to ski slopes- we had thought about trying to go snowboarding but weren't sure it would work out, but with it right there just had to try. Caroline was going for the first time, and needed some gear- I was able to get by with only buying gloves, socks, and pant liners. Unfortunately I didn't think to recommend that Caroline get kneepads on the very first day... and there were no lessons available on the first day... so I tried to teach what little I could. It went well until we went up the lift and tried to tackle the run, which had very bad snow (hard icy and packed with just a little brush of loose snow) and resulted in badly banged up knees and butt. But she was able to take lessons the next day and tackled another run on the third day. The mountains themselves were very impressive, many sheer rock faces and tooth like edges scratching up into the sky. There wasn't much snow left and most of the snow off the trails had melted, but the mountains were still an impressive ...



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