Trip to Tappenkarsee part 1

In early September I had the opportunity to go hiking in the mountains and stay in a Hütte in Tappenkarsee.

It was a beautiful outing, but a pretty steep climb to get up the mountain.

Iwill mostly just post pictures, because you can't take a bad picture of Austrian mountains if the weather is nice.

 

These are pictures I took while we were still in the bus.

Sometimes the fog just rises suddenly.  Here is a castle near Salzburg that is completely smog.

The Austrian countryside is exactly as picturesque as the movies make it seem.

 

Finally we arrived at the starting point of our hike.

So we started our hike and the first part was pretty gradual.

We saw some astoundingly beautiful scenery.

 

 

I am amazed that there are so many different colors and textures in the Austrian woods.

 

I was able to get the whole of this spider web in this shot.

Fog can arise at any time and it did at this cute little hut on the way.

The patterns of the wood in the hut were really pretty.

This rock had  marks as if done by an artist.

After we started to climb we got to see water falls.

In this shot you can see how far we have come. That lake in the background is the same one in the sixth picture up above where we got off the bus.

I took lots of pictures of plants and wildflowers too.

 

It was also the week that the cows were being brought down to the valley from the tops of the mountains. One has to get out of the way when they are coming down the trail.

This is the hut that we stayed in.

I just loved the texture of these clumps of heath.

This was our room in the Hütte.

As the sun set, you could see the lake out our room window.

Here is the same shot in the morning.

 

And here are different cows coming down from the top of the mountain.

There go the cows by our little Hütte.

 

I'll leave the first part of this blog with this shot of the mountains.