While this looks like wilderness to me, there was a Starbucks no further than a ten minute walk away. And just another 15 minutes (by car), the best Chinese restaurant I ever had dinner at.
So what then, to me, is the biggest difference between the wilderness of America and the Dolomites, the only ‘wild’ place I’m really familiar with? I think it’s that in the Italian Alps nature is never just nature. I sometimes find myself picking a certain route because I know there’ll be a mountain hut that serves their cappuccino in exactly the way that feels right for that day. But perhaps that’s just what I’m used to…
