Final day spent climbing up and over another mountain, scenery was spectacular and gave us a good last day view of the forest and valley. Stopped for a Grosi to in a hillside restaurant so that completed the food double I wanted.
Yesterday we went to Innsbrook for a few hours. The highlight in The old town was undoubtedly the magnificent cathedral. We had a wander around the Swarovski crystal shop and exhibition. I had not realised they were Innsbrook based, you can take a bus to the factory and do a tour but we were happy seeing the few special bits on display in the shop.
We were pleased we did not press on with the langlauf lessons when, on Wednesday we saw a lady tumble in front of our bar terrace and break her hip. She was on the dead flat nursery slope, if a a slope can be flat! It was impressive to see the air ambulance fly in but clearly we would rather it had not happened.
So its home tomorrow, the holiday has been good if not necessarily in the way we wanted it to be, but that seems a trend with us and walking. The resort is very quiet with little or no apres ski bars so I think SWMBO was disappointed with that but overall had a good time.
She became very philosophical when she said, try to do all the things on your bucket list before you get too old to do them! Skiing certainly falls into that category, enjoying an Alpine resort does not.
Friday, 3 March 2017
Wednesday, 1 March 2017
Seefeld and eat it
Second day of our Winter experiences holiday saw us ditch the Langlauf as too risky injury wise, and explore a bit of alpine hill climbing.
So armed with supplies, kit and map we started at base level 3600ft and followed a route expected to take three and a half hours. With no expectation of elevation variations we were lured into a false scene of security as we started off along the lake and down about 600ft into a pine clad valley.
What goes down must come up of course and after about 45 minutes the gradient started to kick in, and two hours later we reached our summit of 4300ft. Quite a view, snowy track down and a beer or three waiting at the end. We finished fifteen minutes ahead of schedule too!
The resort its suffering with lack of snowfall so a day at leisure is planned for tomorrow, Insbrook on Thursday and who knows what Friday will have in store?
So armed with supplies, kit and map we started at base level 3600ft and followed a route expected to take three and a half hours. With no expectation of elevation variations we were lured into a false scene of security as we started off along the lake and down about 600ft into a pine clad valley.
What goes down must come up of course and after about 45 minutes the gradient started to kick in, and two hours later we reached our summit of 4300ft. Quite a view, snowy track down and a beer or three waiting at the end. We finished fifteen minutes ahead of schedule too!
The resort its suffering with lack of snowfall so a day at leisure is planned for tomorrow, Insbrook on Thursday and who knows what Friday will have in store?
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