winter hiking tour at spitzingsee, BY

the 1st winter hiking tour of the season at lake spitzingsee. this time i was joined by my father (almost 77 years old) who is my guest in munich right now. 

this tour was easy and short, maybe 1,5 hours up the hill from spitzingsee (1,084m) via untere firstalm cottage (1,320m) to suttenstein pass (1,398m). but yes, the last few hundred meters through knee high snow from the firstalm were not easy at all, my dears ⛄

we like the bavarian alps in the lake spitzingsee area a lot. we have been at the nearby rotwand (1884m) in summer, you remember?

lake spitzingsee

father + son 💕

not an easy way, is it?

the pass almost reached

a view from the pass to the other side of the massif

the end point of the tour. let's go back down ⛄

untere firstalm, 1320m

finally, back on civilized road, but reeeeally slippy 😄

alte wurzhütte, the historical guesthouse from 1720

any questions about the weather? here we go⛄

(very few) more pictures here.

lienz, tirol, austria, AT

our stop-over #4 in lienz, austria after izola, slovenia + udine, italy + plöckenpass AT-IT border at our way from istria, croatia back home to munich was meant only as a fast break for lunch. 

finally we liked this old medieval city surrounded by beautiful alps in eastern tirol so much, that we spent many hours walking up and down in its beautiful streets, admired all these many nice fountains 😇

lienz, tirol, österreich, AT

blue tomato?

1311-1320, the old city walls

more pictures here.

pieniny, PL + SK

what a great weekend with old classmates in the beautiful pieniny mountains at the slovak-polish border dominated by the mountain tri koruny = trzy korony = three crowns. btw, pieniny is the oldest polish national park founded in 1932.

even when my wife was not my class mate, she joined me at the trip, so we have had some family quality time there es well 😄. she enjoyed to see her native poland and also really liked the way how my classmates have comunicated to each other. at least at breakfasts and dinners, which she always joined ... and yes, polish & slovak are similar languages and both nations live in a good neighborhood, so she could also understand almost everything & speak to all of us ...

 

tri koruny - trzy korony, pieniny. a view from slovakia to poland over the border river dunajec

 

cerveny klastor (red monastery) of the carthusians order (kartäuser, kartuziani) built 1320 above,

my mobile office in slovakia below 😇

btw, the area around dunajec river is famous for its semi-traditional raft boats [floß + flößer (DE), plt + pltnici (SK), tratwa + flisacy (PL)] and dunajec (beside poprad river) is one of only two slovak rivers which do not enter the black sea via danube (=dunaj) river but the baltics via wisla river, you know?

 

what a class! 😄

 

the border village czorsztyn (= zornstein), PL

cerveny klastor (red monastery), SK

no comments 😈😃💕

the pub in the monastery serves some old style beers (romuald), 

but the brewery is not any longer inside the abbey walls.

the border village cerveny klastor (red monastery), SK

hiking tour to the three crowns hill (PL) in the early morning

central slovakia

the high tatras (hohe tatra, vysoke tatry) from the south (SK)

bratislava (SK)

good-bye, pieniny 💖

more pictures here.