two valleys: lechtal + tannheimer tal in tirol, austria, AT

what a nice weekend with our former neighbors in tirol, austria, AT. for some strange reason we have booked the hotel black eagle 'schwarzer adler' in a wrong place called tannheim instead of the black eagle in hägerau and were some 40 minutes away by car. it did not make any harm to our common holidays. we've joined the group for a hiking tour, swimming in the waterfall (hägerauer wasserfall) close to the lech river and for barbecue after that and went home late at night. 

thus we've seen not just the lechtal valley (~ canyoning 2023), but also the similar beautiful valley tannheimer tal with the small lake haldensee .. just could not visit the nearby lake vilsalpsee as both roads to it were closed. well, it was raining at that time, so we did not try to find out why are they closed and how would the right approach aka entry look like ... 

tannheim, hägerau, häselgehr, gramais (here we have had our 2h easy lechiweg hiking tour with children and 2 dogs ...

gramais, AT

hägerau, lechtal, tirol, AT

3D painting in the lechtal valley

the lech river and the waterfall hägarauer wasserfall, AT

many of us were bathing in the waterfall 🐋

hägerau

tirol

... at our hiking tour 'lechiweg' in gramais

the starting point of hiking tour 'lechiweg' in gramais

~~~

tannheim, tannheimer tal, tirol AT

our hotel black eagle (schwarzer adler) in tannheim, tannheimer tal, AT

more coming soon (in the rainy autumn weeks at the end of the year 2026?) or never ...

canyoning, AT

my first ever canyoning. great. the hochalpschlucht in the lechtal valley in tirol, austria, was most likely quite an easy tour ... but for me difficult enough 😄

we've stayed at the gasthof sonne in häselgehr, the probably worst hotel i coud imagine. we have had bunk beds (stockbett) and we were 3 guys in a 6 or 8 people room. by a strange coincidence i took a look in the 'closed' private area just behind a curtain and i've seen two horrific clutterer (messie) rooms which could belong to the owners .... anything positive out there? yes, it was really cheap, the breakfast for 5 € was surprisingly tasty and our canyoning base camp was just vis-à-vis over the street ...

not easy, is it? 😇

the next morning was everything fine: mk-canyoing base camp => village steeg => hochalpschlucht => short introduction => canyoning .... well, i was a little bit afraid, because it was my 1st time +  i've really no talent to handle all that ropes, buckles and handles + there is also already a fear of heights in certain circumstances + i also do not like water in my ears ... you probably ask yourself, why for hell's sake i decided to go there, doesn't you? well, in a weak situation of my mind i just promised my buddy to take part in this year's old boys weekend trip 😇🐋🍀

it was a beautiful experience and i'm happy i've joined the team💓... well, the beer garden afterwards in munich was nice, too 😎🍻🍀

enjoy few pictures:

not recommended: pension gasthof sonne in häselgehr

not our rooms. thx goodness!

mottos 1+2 for my decision to participate? 😂

lechtal valley, AT

hägerau, lechtal valley, tirol, austria, AT

3D paintings on the walls + some tirolian church

almost all of us in the hochalpschlucht (hopefully indistinct & anonymous enough as

i do not want to 'present' any of my buddies in the internet without asking them before)

i was told our creek enters here the lech river. lech seems to be too small compared to my believes and memories from its size in germany in füssen / schongau / landsberg / augsburg 😃

few more pictures here.