Hiking the Dolomites in 2018

Using the listserv, Wayne Willis has directed us to this page, which I had not really visited before. Since the listserve reaches only 120 whereas this post will reach 730 of my classmates, I thought I would try posting something that may be of interest to a few of you.

In July of this year, I spent two weeks in northern Italy. The first week, in Bologna, Padua and Vicenza. I wanted to visit the two oldest universities in Europe in Bologna and Padua, to see the simple dais from which Galileo taught his students for 18 years in Padua. As I approached Padua on the fast train, I felt like Lucentio in The Taming of a Shrew:

Tranio, since for the great desire I had
To see fair Padua, nursery of arts,
I am arrived for fruitful Lombardy,
The pleasant garden of great Italy;
…. for I have Pisa left
And am to Padua come, as he that leaves
A shallow plash to plunge him in the deep
And with satiety seeks to quench his thirst.

During the second week, I hiked with some Sierra Club friends from Boulder for a week in the Dolomites. Here’s a photo of me that a friend from Boulder took as we hiked for a week in the Dolomites in July.