Day five: Skiing in Corvara
It snowed last night (just). We got a massive 1 cm. At least it has helped to ‘clean-up’ the snow around town and given a fresh, light dusting on the mountains. Thankfully in the Alta Badia they seem to blow a lot of snow, and really work hard at grooming the piste, however, the light dusting of snow seem to do the piste no favours…
Today was a bad day for skiing as the legs were very tired.
Spent the morning exploring the town. There is not a lot. A few shops (about 3 ski shops and a couple of small super-market), surprisingly few bars / cafes / restaurants. Tourist information has a great 3d model of the area, very impressive.
Main Street, Corvara, Alta Badia, Italy
Lunch in a place called La Tambra. Had a very nice local speciality, a clear chicken soup with ‘curd’ dumplings.
Skied for a couple of hours in the afternoon, couldn’t do much more as my legs were so bad.
The new snow overnight has not helped the piste. Snow conditions today were the poorest they have been all week. A lot of ice now coming through.
Skiing around Corvara, Alta Badia, Italy
Found an excellent map of the Sellaronda (see earlier post about skiing the Sellaronda) showing lots of detail and facts.
We may also haver found the Apres ski ‘scene’ in Corvara. It appears that the Posta Zirm Hotel runs drinks and a disco and there is also L’Murin, just off the ski runs. We will check them out more fully tomorrow.
This evening we went to the Posta Zirm Hotel for dinner. The places is Apres ski from 4 pm to 8 pm, a restaurant from 8 pm to 10 pm and a nightclub from 10 pm to ?. At the Posta Zirm Hotel they were having a special evening of local dishes. Each course had dumplings.
We started with soup that contained dumplings, this was followed by three dumplings of different colours served with a salad. The main course consisted of fried slices of dumpling and a goulash (which was excellent), and dessert was a sweet dumpling (with cottage cheese?) served with chocolate sauce. The meal included wine, was very good and cost 22 Euros. (I must admit that at the end of the meal I was ‘dumplinged out’.)
Corvara in Badia, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy – theSnowSite Entry – map it – Google Earth kml file
