Gourmet Ski Safari Dolomites

This isn’t the kind of safari you might have been expecting.

Not on the menu: giraffes, sundowners, khakis, leopards.

Instead: better stuff.

The Italian alpine region of Alta Badia, in the heart of the Dolomite mountain range, has some very clever people behind its marketing efforts. For example: their annual “Gourmet Ski Safari.”

Take skiing on glorious alpine peaks.

Add Michelin-starred meals at a dozen or so ski huts in the mountains, reached by skis — each hosted by a different local chef, recruited from various nearby high-end resorts, who will discuss and celebrate the regional cuisine, a mixture of German, Austrian, Swiss, and Italian.

For a preview of the deliciousness, we refer you to this report: “Extravagant dishes range from hay soup to mountain goat ham served with oysters and caviar.”

If you can ski, and are possessed of the human ability to taste — well, we don’t know why you haven’t bought your ticket yet for this year’s edition, on December 11.

Hot toddies will never compare.

Meet your guide

Diane Rommel

Diane Rommel has written for The Wall Street Journal, Outside, Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan, Travel + Leisure, Wallpaper and Afar, as well as The Cut, Buzzfeed, Huffington Post and McSweeney’s. She once drove from London to Mongolia, via Siberia.