Strada della Dolomiti, parto secundo

From our aire, the next morning, after a walk, we drove on through Cortina and then back north, leisurely, in the direction of Austria.

A walk near the clouds

Distant crags

And not so distant

Features almost like the American southwest

And more like the Alps

A popular hiking valley in the national park

It turned into a cloudy day, but no less exhiliarating

More clouds moving in

Italian Park Rangers, enforcement-types (note side-arms)

This whole part of Italy was earlier part of the Austrian

empire--till 1919--Mussolini did his best to Italianize the

place, but it is still bilingual...the rangers above spoke

German