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April 5, 2005. Hike to Cima Sat in Riva del Garda, Italy. This is a morning view of the hike area and highlight locations.
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April 2005. Riva del Garda, Italy. Sunset glow on the lakeside mountains.
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April 2005. Riva del Garda, Italy. A cute little wine bar on Via Marocco.
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April 5, 2005. Hike to Cima Sat in Riva del Garda, Italy. This is the road where the hike begins and ends. The Bastione and Capanna are both visible on the mountain, but the Cima Sat is not.
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April 5, 2005. Hike to Cima Sat in Riva del Garda, Italy. The town is in lower right and the destination is circled. These trails maintained by the local alpine club.
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April 5, 2005. Hike to Cima Sat in Riva del Garda, Italy. The lower parts of the trail were paved beautifully; all parts of the trail were constant switchbacks.
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April 5, 2005. Hike to Cima Sat in Riva del Garda, Italy. A little shrine in the wall on the way up to the Bastione.
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April 5, 2005. Hike to Cima Sat in Riva del Garda, Italy. The trail was well marked throughout!
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April 5, 2005. Hike to Cima Sat in Riva del Garda, Italy. The Bastione, up close. It is a single small round tower.
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April 5, 2005. Hike to Cima Sat in Riva del Garda, Italy. This map of the area shows the town, and the destination circled in yellow.
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April 5, 2005. Hike to Cima Sat in Riva del Garda, Italy. Another map of the area, with Cima Sat circled.
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April 5, 2005. Hike to Cima Sat in Riva del Garda, Italy. The beautiful, tiny Capanna Santa Barbara. At night it is floodlit and, from the town, appears to float high up in the darkness.
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April 5, 2005. Hike to Cima Sat in Riva del Garda, Italy. Climbing above the Capanna, which is seen in lower right, this shows the Cima Sat peak at the top, and the direct trail is somewhere up this cliff face.
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April 5, 2005. Hike to Cima Sat in Riva del Garda, Italy. On my trail I encountered just one ladder.
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April 5, 2005. Hike to Cima Sat in Riva del Garda, Italy. The trail was well marked by the Alpine club.
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April 5, 2005. Hike to Cima Sat in Riva del Garda, Italy. My destination, Cima Sat, comes into view... with some hikers barely visible on top of it.
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April 5, 2005. Hike to Cima Sat in Riva del Garda, Italy. Inside the spring, drip drip drip from the limestone ceiling; and a floating sheet of ice with an ice stalagmite left over from winter. The best mineral water I've ever tasted!
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April 5, 2005. Hike to Cima Sat in Riva del Garda, Italy. A short side trail leads to this pleasant spring, dripping into a basin formed by this wall.
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April 5, 2005. Hike to Cima Sat in Riva del Garda, Italy. In other words, a war chapel?
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April 5, 2005. Hike to Cima Sat in Riva del Garda, Italy. There were many of these, in white, pink, and yellow, all through the woods.
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April 5, 2005. Hike to Cima Sat in Riva del Garda, Italy. I'm now close enough to realize that the spike on top is a flagpole, with Italian flag!
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April 5, 2005. Hike to Cima Sat in Riva del Garda, Italy. I'm almost there. View of Riva below.
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April 5, 2005. Hike to Cima Sat in Riva del Garda, Italy. The final pitch requires a little climbing, and a lot of exposure.
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April 5, 2005. Hike to Cima Sat in Riva del Garda, Italy. I stand upon the summit peak, piqued.
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Lago di Garda, Italy. In some places the road is covered to protect against rockfall.
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Lago di Garda, Italy. One of the many, many tunnels along the west-side road; this one is very short.
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Lago di Garda, Italy. One of the tunnels along the west-side road; here the road is high above the lake.
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Lago di Garda, Italy. The first stop on my counter-clockwise tour, on the west shore of the lake, was Limone sul Garda.
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Lago di Garda, Italy.
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Lago di Garda, Italy. An old, narrow alleyway between walled home compounds, looking back at the church and lake. Gargnano.
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Lago di Garda, Italy. The waterfront marina in Desenzano, southern shore.
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Lago di Garda, Italy. I'm sitting in a waterfront cafe in Desenzano, on the southern shore.
