Hiking The Tre Cime de Lavaredo Loop ~ Italy Day 4

It stopped raining! 😀

The Tre Cime de Lavaredo Loop was one of the hikes that we really wanted to do, so today was the day! It was also the day for hundreds of other hikers who have been waiting for the skies to clear......and it was a Saturday.....and it is supposed to rain again tomorrow......so there were lines - lines to park, lines to pay to park, lines to pay for the shuttle, lines to take the shuttle. We arrived to the parking lot at 8:30am and after all the lines and the shuttle to the trailhead, we finally started out hike at 10am. Was it worth the hassle? Hell yeah! 😁

It was sill quite foggy, especially in the morning, and quite cool - we started hiking with two layers of long sleeves and our puffies. When we got off of the shuttle, most of the hikers started to hike counter-clockwise, but we decided to go clockwise and enjoyed some quieter trails for the first hour or so.

See the arrow - that is where we were two days ago!

This is the Tre Cime di Lavaredo.....we circumnavigated it throughout the hike. 

We eventually arrived at the Langram Alpine Hut ~ time for cake and tea! 😋

It was getting a bit warmer by now - think we were down to two layers of shirts, but no puffies -  by now the fog was starting to clear, so blue skies! 

We then arrived at Rifugio Locatelli - and lots of people!

While some people drink beer and smoke cigarettes......on a hike 😶....

....we enjoyed our PB&J sandwiches and water! 

We continued hiking......

...arriving at yet another rifugio ~ Rifugio Lavaredo

It was back on the trail......

...heading back to where we started.....Rifugio Auronzo....

We arrived at 2:45pm ~ so nearly five hours of hiking, taking photos, snacking, waiting in lines to use the bathroom, etc........ As with our hike to Cinque Torri (Italy) and Slemenova Spica (Slovenia), it was impossible to capture all of the amazing views on camera - the photos really do not really capture the awesomeness of it all. 

It was then the shuttle back to our car, an early dinner, and back to our Airbnb to get ready to move on once again - tomorrow we head to another area in The Dolomites.