AUSTRIA - St. ANTON near
INSBRUCH
9th - 16th June 2007
FRIDAY
This is my last day in Austria. I joined another
of the tours organised by Inghams. This time to see a high
glacier. We drove for almost two hours higher and higher up the
Hintertux mountain range, and then stopped to admire the
Gepatschstausee where the water was held back by a dam built
between1961 & 1965. We could walk out on top of the dam to look
across the water to the snow capped mountains beyond.
It was not so bright as yesterday but occasionally
the sun shone on the mountain peaks.
As the road got higher it got bleaker and finally
the bus took us round a series of 29 hairpin bends to a plateau at
the bottom of the Kaunertal glacier.
Here it was quite cold especially as the sun
wasn't shining, but we could see the ski run and the lifts, and
watch a few brave skiers coming down the glacier.
I had lunch in the restaurant there and just
occasionally the sun would come through patches of the clouds.
Looking back from the restaurant down to the
reservoir below.
We were back in St. Anton soon after 3.00 pm so
I had plenty of time for a swim and a few beers before supper.
Later I must pack and pay my hotel bill as I am being collected
from outside the hotel at 7.00 tomorrow morning for the long
journey home again.
