Like planned, my aunt, Mario and I did a two day training hike to the Glungezer Hütte near Tulfes in Tyrol. My uncle was as kind as to bring us to the station of the Patscherkofelbahn cablecar which took us to the Patscherkofel, Innsbruck's home mountain. There were hardly any people in the cablecar and also when we started walking we met less and less other hikers. At first the path called Zirbenweg, was rather flat - we didn't gain or lose any hight. Then it slowly got steeper. At a parting of the ways, we seperated and while my aunt stayed on the original path, Mario and I went up to the Viggarspitze which is 2306 meters high. We enjoyed the beautiful sight before going down again and following the first path as well.
After four hours we finally arrived at the hut, which appeared quite suddenly after a quite steep slope. The altitude of 2610 meters is perfect for acclimatising. We were welcomed by my aunt who had already ordered tea. The host of the hut described to us how to get to our room, which was rather unnecessary because there were only two rooms in the hut! Ours was small and cold (the window was open) but nice. There were four places to sleep so we could use one as deposit station.
Next, we had dinner. If anybody ever told you that on mountain huts you just get simple or bad food, don't believe it because it is not true. We had four courses, four very good courses! Starter, soup, main course and desert. The hosts can really cook well!
We were all tired and went to bed early, around 9 o'clock. Unfortunately we didn't sleep too well and when the alarm clock rang at 6 am, nobody wanted to get up and leave their warm bed. But we had decided to watch the sunrise, so we had to face the cold air outside. It was 4°C and windy when we had a first glance towards east. The sun didn't show yet so we quickly went inside again and I took another jacket. This was when my aunt and I decided that we had to take along more warm clothes than we originally wanted to.
The sunrise itself was really beautiful. Have a look at the pictures, it is around half as lovely as it was in reality.
At breakfast we were the last ones because all other guest had already left. We took our time and after packing our things together, having a chat with the host (and explaining the Pangaea project to him), we also headed off. Our fist goal was the Glungezer - it was just 15 minutes from the hut and that's how we made another summit, this one is 2677 meters high.
Then we started our long way down. We met sheep along the way and saw several marmots that didn't care about us standing close by and taking pictures. They were rather fat too, ready for winter I guess. I never before got so close to a marmot.
Our hike ended at the upper station of the Glungezerbahn. It took us about one hour to get down to Tulfes because the lifts are quite slow. But we had time to enjoy the view and reflect on the nice tour we did.
In Tulfes we were picked up by my uncle again (after some difficulties) and we finally were back in civilisation.
I spent the rest of the day with packing, weighing my luggage and having my hair cut (it's short... :-) ). Everything is ready, now I need to focus on what's lying ahead of me and try not to panic. :-D
After four hours we finally arrived at the hut, which appeared quite suddenly after a quite steep slope. The altitude of 2610 meters is perfect for acclimatising. We were welcomed by my aunt who had already ordered tea. The host of the hut described to us how to get to our room, which was rather unnecessary because there were only two rooms in the hut! Ours was small and cold (the window was open) but nice. There were four places to sleep so we could use one as deposit station.
Next, we had dinner. If anybody ever told you that on mountain huts you just get simple or bad food, don't believe it because it is not true. We had four courses, four very good courses! Starter, soup, main course and desert. The hosts can really cook well!
We were all tired and went to bed early, around 9 o'clock. Unfortunately we didn't sleep too well and when the alarm clock rang at 6 am, nobody wanted to get up and leave their warm bed. But we had decided to watch the sunrise, so we had to face the cold air outside. It was 4°C and windy when we had a first glance towards east. The sun didn't show yet so we quickly went inside again and I took another jacket. This was when my aunt and I decided that we had to take along more warm clothes than we originally wanted to.
The sunrise itself was really beautiful. Have a look at the pictures, it is around half as lovely as it was in reality.
At breakfast we were the last ones because all other guest had already left. We took our time and after packing our things together, having a chat with the host (and explaining the Pangaea project to him), we also headed off. Our fist goal was the Glungezer - it was just 15 minutes from the hut and that's how we made another summit, this one is 2677 meters high.
Then we started our long way down. We met sheep along the way and saw several marmots that didn't care about us standing close by and taking pictures. They were rather fat too, ready for winter I guess. I never before got so close to a marmot.
Our hike ended at the upper station of the Glungezerbahn. It took us about one hour to get down to Tulfes because the lifts are quite slow. But we had time to enjoy the view and reflect on the nice tour we did.
In Tulfes we were picked up by my uncle again (after some difficulties) and we finally were back in civilisation.
I spent the rest of the day with packing, weighing my luggage and having my hair cut (it's short... :-) ). Everything is ready, now I need to focus on what's lying ahead of me and try not to panic. :-D
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