Alpe Adria

The Alpe Adria is a fairly new trail that we will walk in September/October 2023. I’ve spent a few days booking accommodation. There has also been a visit to Cotswold Outdoor to buy new rucksack, boots, and various odds and ends.

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Total distance: 752186 m
Max elevation: 2376 m
Total climbing: 32963 m

AA Day -01

Our driver picked us up to take us to Gatwick. This was (hopefully) the most dangerous part of the trip, ...

AA Day 00

Woke to an overcast day with low cloud but no rain. We had a good breakfast with a big choice ...

AA Day 01

Unfortunately, dinner last night matched all the terrible Google reviews. Our room was OK, and breakfast was alright but not ...

AA Day 02

Today’s walk took us through woods and pasture a few hundred metres above the valley floor. Many of the houses ...

AA Day 03

The route started with approximately a 6km walk alongside the river on a cycle track. We made rapid progress to ...

AA Day 04

Today was almost entirely downhill and was a short stage. The trail crossed a mixture of pasture and forest, walking ...

AA Day 05

Today was an early start for one of the tougher sections of the Alpe-Adria. We left Stall on a grassy ...

AA Day 06

We walked down the quiet road from Innerfragant, and where the Alpe-Adria trail turned off to follow the river gorge, ...

AA Day 07

Today’s route started with a return walk up the valley to the Stappitzer See lake, so we left our rucksacks ...

AA Day 08

We walked out of Obervellach down the pretty main street. The town had been the centre of the gold mining ...

AA Day 09

We had a good breakfast and set off on the track alongside the river. Nice and flat, and we made ...

AA Day 10

We woke to mist filling the valley below, which burned away by breakfast time. There was a good breakfast of ...

AA Day 11

A late start as it wasn't very far down the valley to Seeboden. We left Gmund on a side road, ...

AA Day 12

We had a rest day in Seeboden during which we didn't do very much at all. Christine posted some postcards ...

AA Day 13

The forecast wasn't very promising for today; rain in the afternoon, so we decided on an early start to try ...

AA Day 14

We left Dollach and walked up the valley on an easy path alongside the river, only going up 120m in ...

AA Day 15

The day started with a 1.5km uphill walk to the start of the stage. We made good progress on forest ...

AA Day 16

After yesterday we decided not to do another day of 20kms and1000m up and 1000m down, but instead walk down ...

AA Day 17

We stayed at the Explorer Hotel in Bad Kleinkirchheim. This is number nine in a chain of ten, opening a ...

AA Day 18

Today’s trail description includes the sentence “Whilst most active sports lovers take the cable car to reach the summit, the ...

AA Day 19

Despite all the bad reviews of the hotel and restaurant on Google maps, we had a really nice meal last ...

AA Day 20

On leaving Ossiach we decided to walk up the forest road, rather than climbing the steps in the gorge. We ...

AA Day 21

We had a rest day in Velden. There was no launderette there, but there was one in Villach, a 15 ...

AA Day 22

We woke to cloud obscuring the valley and the mountains above. Breakfast was the usual assortment of cereals, cheese, cold ...

AA Day 23

After the rain over the mountains yesterday, the forecast for today was sunny intervals, which was good as we had ...

AA Day 24

Breakfast was cold pizza and tea, and then we set off down the road. Today’s stage follows the river Soca, ...

AA Day 25

Another day of walking through great mountain scenery, alongside the Soca river. We knew that much of the trail was ...

AA Day 26

As we were starting in Kobarid, today we followed the Juliana trail to Tolmin. The Alpe-Adria trail started higher up ...

AA Day 27

We left Tolmin after an early breakfast as we had a big climb ahead of us. The route was flat ...

AA Day 28

We had walked all of today’s route in the opposite direction, in the rain, back in 2018. We therefore decided ...

AA Day 29

We had breakfast at 8am, and caught the 9:15am bus back into Cividale. While we were waiting there were numerous ...

AA Day 30

The Alpe-Adria trail often takes very big loops. We decided that we didn’t want to walk more than 40kms and ...

AA Day 31

We left the hotel and walked through the town Cormons. It was 9am on a Monday morning and there was ...

AA Day 32

Last night we walked to a pizza restaurant in a shopping mall, a short distance from the hotel. As we ...

AA Day 33

Today’s route on the Alpe-Adria took a long loop inland, so we followed the Cammino trail instead. We said goodbye ...

AA Day 34

Rather than walking back up the same staircase to get to the Alpe-Adria trail, we decided to take the next ...

AA Day 35

Today was a good example of some of the bad (and good) things about the Alpe-Adria trail. We walked 23km, ...

AA Day 36

We had breakfast in the restaurant across the street from our apartment. At 8 o’clock it was surprisingly busy for ...

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