{"id":60,"date":"2007-09-02T12:18:32","date_gmt":"2007-09-02T12:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dur.ac.uk\/paul.hodgkinson\/wordpress\/index.php\/2007\/09\/dolomites-vi-sella-massif\/"},"modified":"2023-03-09T13:37:07","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T13:37:07","slug":"dolomites-vi-sella-massif","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/2007\/09\/dolomites-vi-sella-massif\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolomites VI &#8211; Sella Massif"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A set of pictures from a half-day out on the Sella Massif.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/2007\/09\/dolomites-vi-sella-massif\/sellapordoi3\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/SellaPordoi3-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"SellaPordoi3\" title=\"SellaPordoi3\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-4600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The cable car at the Pordoi Pass [46 29 18 N, 11 48 40 E] (2242 m) saves walking up the massif (~2900 m)!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/2007\/09\/dolomites-vi-sella-massif\/sellarifugioforcpordoi\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/SellaRifugioForcPordoi-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"SellaRifugioForcPordoi\" title=\"SellaRifugioForcPordoi\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-4601\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Forcella Pordoi rifugio (2848 m) was barely around the corner from the cafe at the top of the cable car&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/2007\/09\/dolomites-vi-sella-massif\/sellawalkers\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/SellaWalkers-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"SellaWalkers\" title=\"SellaWalkers\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-4606\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/2007\/09\/dolomites-vi-sella-massif\/sella-panaroma-eh\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/Sella_panaroma_EH-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Sella panaroma EH\" title=\"Sella panaroma EH\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-4603\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The massif is an odd moon-like landscape (well, except there&#8217;s no snow on the moon of course).   There are walkers in <em>both<\/em> photos &#8211; look carefully!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/2007\/09\/dolomites-vi-sella-massif\/sellarifugioboe\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/SellaRifugioBoe-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"SellaRifugioBoe\" title=\"SellaRifugioBoe\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-4602\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"rifugio boe\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rifugioboe.it\/inglese\/home.htm\">Rifugio Bo\u00e8<\/a> [46 30 56 N, 11 49 28 E] (2873 m) &#8211; a convenient stopping point for ein Kaffee mit schnaps (although apparently the toilet facilities in this particular rifugio are a little &#8220;basic&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/2007\/09\/dolomites-vi-sella-massif\/sellavaldemesdi\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/SellaValdeMesdi-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"SellaValdeMesdi\" title=\"SellaValdeMesdi\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-4604\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/2007\/09\/dolomites-vi-sella-massif\/sellavaldemesdi2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/SellaValdeMesdi2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"SellaValdeMesdi2\" title=\"SellaValdeMesdi2\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-4605\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Views of the imposing Val de Mesdi from a viewpoint just beyond rifugio Bo\u00e8.  There is a path up the scree valley but it looks extremely hard work and the final climb up onto the massif looked pretty nasty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A set of pictures from a half-day out on the Sella Massif.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,2],"tags":[143,142,91],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe-other","category-places","tag-alps","tag-italy","tag-mountains"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}