Scott Shaw rides the Piccolo Dolomite & Italian alps

We were based at about 600m above sea level and my goal was to reach the three main peaks around us, these being, Recoaro Mille@ 1000m. Rifugio Cesare battisti @ 1265m, and Campogrosso @ 1457m. after achieving these goals as well as numerous other rides from the mountain to the flats and throughout neighbouring valleys, in weather which on the one ride could go from 8 degrees and raining to 30 degrees and sunny and back to raining again all on the one ride, the friends I rode with decided I could handle a real mountain so after a 3 hour car trip we set off on a 90km round trip starting @ 1000m above sea level, rising and falling until we reached about 2100m above seal level.

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