My Process Booking my Dolomites huts for this summer

Including how to videos!!

Today is May 19, 2023,

Well hello there!

Morgan from Crave the Planet--back with another Hut to Hut Hiking heavy roundup email and other comfortable adventure travel.

In this email 👇🏼

  • Travel Blog Archive:  ➡️ STEP BY STEP Booking Your Own Huts for THIS summer [Ultimate Guide]

  • Quick Training Tip: ➡️ Blister care

  • Hot Take:  ➡️ Cotton is crap

  • On the Way:  ➡️ We're going to Montenegro next week - Any requests for research?

  • Deals: ➡️ It's REI's biggest sale of the year starting today!

Travel Blog Archive ➡️ STEP BY STEP Booking Your Own Huts for THIS summer 

The Alta Via 1 trail will forever hold a special place in my heart.  But after spending 1/100th of the time planning and booking I think I'm a convert to the lesser known hut to hut trails in the Dolomites.

It was so much easier I decided to actually record my screen with looms and put them altogether in this blog post to share with you guys.

Watch the videos to learn how to do it yourself quite easily.

DO NOT judge my lack of grooming 😃 in the screencast. 

Quick Training Tip ➡️ Downhills

Here's the question:

What can you do to reduce the misery of downhills on long treks like the Tour du Mont Blanc?

Do this exactly:

  1. Make your leg muscles stronger in the gym: 2x/wk with "heavyish" strength training

  2. Use Trekking Poles

  3. Gradually adapt to the hills

  4. Zigzag downhill to decrease the steepness

  5. Absorb the forces instead of "plodding" like an elephant. Think: Walk like Natty Bumppo...quietly through the forest

The goal is not to avoid pain altogether, but to make it a better experience.  Downhills just suck. 

Hot Take ➡️ Cotton is Crap

This is not clickbait. Hikers cannot keep on with this cotton business on their feet.  Try:

  • Merino Wool

  • Wool

  • Synthetic blend

Read my entire buying guide for great hiking socks 👎🏻

On the Way ➡️ Going to Montenegro for Outdoor Research

We're getting super pumped for next weekend to hit the late spring hiking season in Montenegro.  We're buying a vacation flat there because it's insanely beautiful on the Bay of Kotor and has great food.

The Bay is actually a Fjord, so the hikes will be intense!   Reply to this email if you're interested in a particular activity near Kotor, Montengro and I'll try to research it.

Currently we're planned to do the Ladder of Kotor Hike, take the boats out to the Blue Cave near Perast and eat...a lot of meat.  Montenegro is famous for really good meat and a lot of it. 

I digress...as always...

Deals: ➡️ REI's Biggest Sale of the Year

Btw it's the start of REI's biggest sale of the year. 

➡️ REI Anniversary Sale - May 19-29th  ➡️ Get some sweet deals on tons of products.

Thanks for reading! 💞 Morgan

Hut to Hut Hiking in the Dolomites - How to Book Hut To Hut Hiking Yourself or With a Service :

➡️  Want to book a Dolomites hut to hut hiking trip?  You can use my spreadsheets to book your own or use a service like Alpenventures Unguided to do your logistics for a self-guided hike. Tell her I sent you to help me support this blog!

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