Photo Journal & Trip Reports (Italy)

Please enjoy these photo journals and trip reports from some of my outdoor photography adventures, starting with the most recent. You can subscribe to follow my latest blog posts (and any other blogs as well) by using a feed reader such as Inoreader or Feedly.

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Chasing Powder in the Alps (Part 4): Larch Laps
Chasing Powder in the Alps (Part 4): Larch Laps
January 2026  |  Piemonte, Italy & Hautes-Alpes, France

Our next stage of chasing powder in the Alps in January was in the western Piemonte of Italy and the Haute-Alps of France just over the border, a region full of extensive larch forests. We scored some surprise post-snowstorm powder at Bardonecchia and Sestriere in Italy, toured the expansive terrain of Montgenèvre in France on a beautiful blue sky day, then caught another massive snowstorm at Serra Chevalier in France when there was literally too much snow to ride!

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Chasing Powder in the Alps (Part 3): Trees of Limone Piemonte
Chasing Powder in the Alps (Part 3): Trees of Limone Piemonte
January 2026  |  Limone Piemonte, Italy

After chasing powder from Austria to Switzerland, there was a now a big Retour d'Est storm forecasted to hit the far southern Alps in the Piemonte region of western Italy. This was great news, particularly because the mountains there already had a solid snowpack from an earlier Retour d'Est in December...

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Autumn in the Dolomites
Autumn in the Dolomites
October-November 2019  |  Dolomites, Italy

In late October and early November, Claudia and I traveled to the Dolomites in northern Italy for two weeks of hiking amongst jagged peaks and golden larch trees. I've spent time the Dolomites in the summer and winter before but was excited to visit during the autumn when the larch trees turn yellow and orange...

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Val Masino
Val Masino
September 2018  |  Bernina Range, Italy

Eight days into our trek around the Bernina Range, we took a little train and bus detour and visited Val Masino in Italy on the southern end of the same greater range. The mountains around here are sometimes referred to as the Val Masino Alps, or the backside of the Bergell or Bregaglia Range...

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Around the Bernina Range
Around the Bernina Range
September 2018  |  Switzerland/Italy

In early September we flew to Zurich, Switzerland, took a train to St. Moritz, then embarked on a 9-day trek around the Bernina Range in the Rhaetian Alps. Named after the tallest peak in the range, Piz Bernina, the Bernina Range is a rugged and heavily glaciated mountain range along the border of southeast Switzerland and Italy...

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Ferrata Trek through the Rosengarten
Ferrata Trek through the Rosengarten
August 2013  |  Dolomites, Italy

The Rosengarten is a group of mountains in the Dolomites with a dense cluster of exceptionally jagged peaks. 10 years ago I did two hikes through this range, and since then I’ve longed to return for some better photography and more challenging via ferrata climbing...

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Via Ferrate in the Dolomites
Via Ferrate in the Dolomites
August 2013  |  Dolomites, Italy

Last week Claudia’s father and brother drove down from Dresden to join us in the Dolomites in northern Italy for a fun week of hiking and climbing via ferrata routes together. The via ferrate are climbing routes with fixed cables and ladders, and by using a climbing harness with two short ropes with locking carabiners, it’s possible to safely climb exposed routes without technical climbing skills...

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A Winter in the Alps
A Winter in the Alps
Winter 2010-11  |  Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Germany

This gallery is a compilation of my favorite photos taken from the 2010-2011 winter season in the Alps, from November through April, in roughly chronological order. I spent most of the season in Engelberg, Switzerland but also did trips to Zermatt, Grindelwald, Mürren, and the Bernese Oberland in Switzerland; the Dolomites in Italy; Obergurgl and Mayrhofen in Austria; and the Black Forest in Germany...

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Via Ferrate in the Dolomites
Via Ferrate in the Dolomites
June/July 2004  |  Dolomites, Italy

In June and July I met my buddy Kevin and his brother Kyle in Venice, Italy and we headed into the Dolomites for three weeks of hiking and climbing the famous via ferrate routes through these incredible mountains...

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