zugspitze, top of germany, 2962m

my youngest daughter and me were ready to open our ski season this weekend. well, after she read the weather forecast, our team shrank by 50% 😄

i love the zugspitze even if the skiing area is not really good. it is called 'zugspitzplatt' which means flat or weißes tal (white valley) and is mostly in the range 2300m - 2600m. it partially  contains also parts of a small glacier, which is one of the last 4 remaining glaciers in germany, if i remember that correctly. btw, my favorite ski run is down to the bruntal (or brunntal?) which is a valley some 200m further down and unfortunatelly often closed due to lack of snow or the like ...

heaven & hell, was this a crazy skiing at zugspitze! but you know what? even if it was foggy + windy and only 75 cm of snow which is not much and not enough for all lifts up there, at least it was cold enough at abt minus 5° celsius .... down in garmisch it was plus 3° celsius and raining in the morning. what would YOU choose for today? 🍀

enjoy few graphically processed pictures as the original ones would be even much darker & drearier (trostloser)

what an allegory for my skiing today 😂🏂⛆🌋⛄

heaven & hell! what a foggy day!

zugspitze not really in full beauty, top of germany, DE, 2962m

the first rays of hope at lunch time ...

(almost) the full sunny beauty ot the bavarian alp at about 1 pm😃

a ski cottage at 2600m 

historical photographs at the station ~ cogwheel train TO the zugspitze

cogwheel train FROM the zugspitze

picture taken from the train after we came out of the tunnel ~ frozen lake eibsee

picture taken from the train

back down at lake eibsee

the cable car to zugspitze holds few world records (biggest overhype?

 just 1 pylon? highest cable car pylon? ... and the like)

wanna enjoy the zugspitze at a sunny winter day? it is really easy my dears. just move back in time to april 2024 ☃🌋🌞

zugspitze, DE-BY, 2963m

there were plus 27°C in munich this early april and we have decided to feel the real winter at the snowy zugspitze (2963m, somewhere ele 2962m), instead. just to close my above average skiing season accordingly, you know? btw, you still remember my sellaronda & plose experience in soouth tirol earlier this year? ☃

i've been skiing at zugspitze in early february, too. thus there will be few older pictures as well. will you call the difference? 😄

view from the zugspitze to the south. it is still in bavaria, but the

distant mountains on the right side behind are already in tirol (austria).

zugspitze, ski area zugspitzplatt (weißes tal, the white valley)

spring in garmisch-partenkirchen (GaPa)

the church of grainau => left to right: alpspitze, waxenstein, zugspitze.

waxenstein is in the front, so this massif looks even bigger than its

two much higher fellows. lets call it the wonder of perspective 😇

up there today

brunntal valley as seen from the old platter lift (schlepplift)

the weather forecast for today + the best of all wives?

two of us

mr. chamois (gams)

the small chapel out there

lunch time 300m below the summit (center) and the meteorological

station at the schneeferner mountain above the restaurant (left)

schneeferner mountain

the very top. here germany meets austria, you know?

bavaria = bayern, BY, germany DE

tirol, austria, AT

lake eibsee, bayern

mr. jackdaw aka hr. dohle (alpendohle = alpine chough)

the igloo hotel. ice cold ⛇

soooo nice up there, you know?

the snow covered top of the wetterwandeck mountain

wetterwandeck (right) + weisses tal (= the white valley)

skiing on february, 3rd ... i've checked the weather few days before, of course ...

good-bye, zugspitze 💖

more pictures here.

zugspitze, a year ago, april 30th, 2023.