Mike Lane wrote on Apr 2, 2013:

Dan Stephenson wrote on Mar 31, 2013:

*Driving the Alps in general is important,
and crossing the Stelvio Pass is the key part of that. *If one drives
through the Alps, then Venice is just waiting there for some visiting,
and it is a very special place (and would have flights to Athens).


I have twice driven from Davos to Merano en route to Venice, hoping to do the

Stelvio pass. The first time was in late May. Many of the Alpine passes were
open by that time, but Stelvio was still closed. The second time was in mid
June. The pass was open but the weather was overcast with occasional rain,
and the cloud base was down to about 3000 ft. There's no point in driving
over an Alpine pass in the cloud - it's dangerous, slow and you can't see
anything, so we aborted again.




Oh, by the way, there's a web-cam showing current conditions on the Stelvio
pass he

http://webcam.popso.it/cm/pages/Serv...IT/IDPagina/42

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Mike Lane
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