The hut "lager" rooms vary in size and configuration. Some are just a football field size futon with pillows side by side. Others are barrack-style bunk beds. At Drei Zinnen our room had 32 bunk beds. The rule at the mountain huts is that they will never turn you away but we have tried to call in advance to reserve private rooms or at least a bunk to be sure we aren't sleeping in the hallway. Unlike my experiences in European youth hostels 25 years ago, everyone is very quiet and polite and so tired after full days of hiking that they all crash early. At breakfast, we chatted with a group that had been in our bunk room and on our same schedule and route for the past four days. We said goodbye as we all headed down to the end of the trail and I joked that we were following them. Arlo and I caught a bus to get back to our parked car. Stoked about what we had seen of the Dolomites already, we decided to head for Cortina, Italy, only a couple hours away, to see more of these mountains. But when another bobsled ride beckoned, well we had to give it a go. We rode far up a mountain on a chair lift and then ripped down in a bobsled attached to a rail! Yahoo!
We stopped at Lake Misurina and tried to find a clock card so we could park the car. Frustrated that no shops had them we made one and put it on our dashboard. We took a stroll around the scenic lake and when we were on the far side of the lake we ran into our friends from the hut! They looked a little concerned that maybe we really were following them.
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Well Ann, it's not the Amazing Race, but you're getting some of the experiences anyway! Now just bungee jumping and finding a needle in a haystack.
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