VIGO DI FASSA (4,565 FEET) : DOLOMITE^ STRASSE 



"North Tyrol is quite Austrian, but the South borders Italy. In the Ampezzo-Tal, 

 where Cortina' lies, the people speak a curious dialect, more Italian than German; and while 

 the schools teach German and all the people are able to use that tongue if they will, they 

 revert to Italian whenever the stranger can understand it. 'Si, signora, si — I speak German, 

 but Italian is mv mother-tongue; the German, it is a stepmother'" (see text, page 332). 



Stretches of alluring forest, all soft, 

 flower-filled turf and drooping larches to 

 tempt and to excuse the short-breathed 

 pedestrian who would linger by the way, 

 the carriage which leads the procession 

 out heads it to the end, since for vehicles 

 there is no passing upon the way. 



WHAT CONSTITUTES A REAL PEDESTRIAN 



It will have been discovered ere this 

 that my pedestrianism is of the most 

 amateurish sort, disdained undoubtedly 

 by every Alpinist. In the four great 

 classes of Alpine tourists I am not sure 

 of my place. Three would incontinently 

 reject me, and I would rebel against be- 

 ing set in the other, while admitting that 

 I only at times belong to any of them. 



Is it first or last that I should place the 

 "Sommer-frischler" — the summer guests, 

 the idlers on hotel terraces and in village 



tea-rooms, who take leisurely motor 

 drives or gentle-paced walks to Casino or 

 post-card shop? After them come the 

 great army of "Passenbummler" — pass- 

 loiterers, the Rucksack brigade — ener- 

 getic, cheerful, vigorous, sunburnt, a bit 

 blowsy perhaps, but full of the "joy of 

 living" and seeing. How they would dis- 

 dain me ! Let me confess, ere they find 

 me out, that many a time I have ridden 

 up to the top of a pass and strode down 

 triumphantly upon the other side ! Could 

 one do worse ? 



THE DIFFERENCE OF CASTE AND CEASS IN 

 SHOE LEATHER 



Hoch - touristen (high - tourists') will 

 never notice me. They see nothing; no 

 one but their own kind, their own ideals. 

 Earnest people these, conscious of the 

 danger of their enterprise, full of strange 



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