Anyone who has had the chance to experience the snowy landscapes far from the marked paths, knows that walking with snowshoes is much more than a simple walk across snowy slopes. In the silence, everyday thoughts disappear, nature transmits a sense of humility, your body uses all its strength, but your free spirit wins. It’s a return to the origins, an indescribable sense of life, of close contact with nature, which is worth experiencing.

And when you get back, a nice cup of hot chocolate that gives life and warmth back to your whole body. You can feel strange sense of tiredness in your muscles, a tiredness that makes you calm and content.








For a nice walk with snowshoes, you need:

• suitable equipment (free hire in the hotel)
• careful planning of the route and information on the snow conditions
• knowledge of your own physical condition
• export guide, when taking on a route in unknown areas
• respect for the safety rules in the mountains
• sun cream and sunglasses
• maps or GPS equipment
• respect for flora and fauna

Guided trips with snowshoes:

From January to the beginning of March at Taubers Unterwirt in Velturno, trips on the Sarentine Alps and to the Alpine huts in the Dolomites are run

5 times a week guided trips (from Monday to Friday) with snowshoe hire in the hotel

• Monday: Alpe di Villandro – Corno del Renon
  Route: Departure from the car park, walk up to the Gasteig range and return to the departure point.
  Magnificent view over the Dolomites. Possibility of a meal at the end of the walk – it is advisable to bring a packed lunch.
  Duration: 4 hours, about 500m height difference
  Meeting time 9.15: From the hotel to the Gasser refuge - Alpe di Villandro about a 30 minute journey.
  
• Tuesday: Val di Funes
  Route: Departure from the Zannes car park – Rio Kasseril up to the Gampenalm hut – possibility of meal.
  Downhill return with snowshoes or toboggan.
  Duration: 1 1/2 hours, about 400 m height difference
  Meeting time 8.30: From the hotel to the Zannes car park
  
• Wednesday: Maso Kühhof – Chiusa/Klausnerhütte Refuge.
  Route: Walk from the car park of Kühhof farm to the Chiusa Refuge, the Saltner Refuge and back to the departure point. Packed lunch. Possibility of coming down the mountain in a toboggan.
  Duration: 4.5 hours, about 450 m height difference
  Meeting time 9.15: From the hotel to Alzfons to the Kühhof farm
  
• Thursday: Stöffelehütte Refuge and Alpe di Villandro
  Route: Walk to the Gasser refuge, then to the Stöffelehütte refuge and along the Alta Via n. 1 towards the “Totenkirchl” (church of the dead)
  Possibility of a meal just before the destination. Bringing a packed lunch is recommended.
  Duration: 4.5 hours, about 350 m height difference
  Meeting time 9.15: From the Hotel to the Gasser refuge
  
• Friday: Walk following the tracks in Laion Woods
  Route: From the village of Ceves above Laion through the woods to “Bogenstrich” and on to S. Pietro di Laion. Return along the old postal path.
  Duration: About 4.5 hours, about 480 m height difference
  Meeting time 9.15: From the hotel to Ceves (arrival 10.00)