Scouting the Alta Via route through the Dolomites in Northern Italy. Courtesy/Don Krier

By BILL PRIEDHORSKY
Los Alamos Mountaineers

The April Los Alamos Mountaineers meeting continues in its electronic format, consistent with the needs of this special time.

It will be held at the regular time of 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 28.

As usual, the Mountaineers meeting is held in collaboration with the Pajarito Environmental Education Center. This month, Gwendolyn Gallagher and Don Krier  will present “Alta Via: a wondrous route through Italy’s Dolomites.”

In the Dolomites, soaring limestone towers reflect the alpenglow, and green plateaus contrast with rugged scree. In 2018, they backpacked the Alta Via 1 (High Route One) – a stunning high altitude trek that comprised 11 days, 100 miles, and 26,000’ of elevation gain/loss.

In addition to seeing the remarkable natural beauty on the route, they stayed in rustic and lively mountain refuges and encountered historical remnants of the Italian front during World War I. When they finally had enough polenta, speck and Spritz Aperol in the high country, they finished off their trip with a few mountain biking and via ferrata adventures.

The Mountaineers’ monthly meetings are held on the fourth Tuesday of each month, usually in in the planetarium of the Los Alamos Nature Center, but electronically for the duration.

Anyone can register for the talk at https://peecla.z2systems.com/event.jsp?event=35711&. Registrants will get an automatic email with the link and password to the Zoom call. We will also send out an email to everyone who is registered about an hour before the talk starts (so 6 p.m. Tuesday, April 28) in case the original email got lost or buried.

PEEC and the Mountaineers welcome the public to join them.