Mayrhofen, Austria

August 27 - Hike to Edelhutte
2016:08:27 09:17:24 The next morning found me en route to Mayrhofen Austria.	2016:08:27 09:17:35	2016:08:27 09:17:47 The dedicated train line, that serves the Zillertal valley as far south as Mayrhofen, originates in Jenbach, Austria.	2016:08:27 11:07:30 Once I got to Mayrhofen, I set out immediately to a lift to an attractive hike - to Edelhutte. A view of scenic Austria from the lift parking lot.	2016:08:27 11:37:01
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2016:08:27 12:36:18	2016:08:27 12:36:23	2016:08:27 12:36:29	2016:08:27 12:39:42	2016:08:27 12:42:24 But do I have to leash my rooster - or not???
2016:08:27 12:44:29	2016:08:27 12:45:03	2016:08:27 12:45:08	2016:08:27 12:45:34 Three minutes later, at Edelhutte, I saw a chicken that did not have a leash.	2016:08:27 12:45:58
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2016:08:27 13:21:55	2016:08:27 13:23:47	2016:08:27 13:24:05	2016:08:27 13:39:22 If you want to take a lift up to a scenic wading pool, you should go to Mayrhofen!	2016:08:27 13:40:19
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2016:08:27 13:50:50 The lift entry zone was illuminated by this light beam dispersing off a diffraction grating...	2016:08:27 13:51:02	2016:08:27 13:51:46	2016:08:27 13:53:56 Almdudler! What more can I say? And imagine dancing in a bottle!	2016:08:28 10:05:31
2016:08:28 10:05:47 I enjoyed my tenure at Manni's SportHotel in Mayrhofen. My room had a balcony overlooking the main drag. A Tyrolean band arose outside and issued indigenous ceremonial music.	2016:08:28 10:05:58	2016:08:28 10:06:21
August 28 - Hike from Hintertux Lift to Weiße Wand and Frauenwand
			2016:08:28 11:10:44 You can buy a 'Zillertal Card' that grants free passage on buses, trains, and most lifts. They give you a comprehensive schedule that made it easy for me to catch the bus to the lift up to the Hintertux Glacier (Gletscher).	2016:08:28 11:11:30
2016:08:28 11:14:49	2016:08:28 11:23:06	2016:08:28 11:24:00 It turned out that the Zillertal Card doesn't get you up to the glacier; you have to pay for that. But I lifted (no charge) up to a fine hike - after I left this tourist zoo!	2016:08:28 11:27:05	2016:08:28 11:29:08
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2016:08:28 11:56:05	2016:08:28 11:59:36	2016:08:28 11:59:48 Tuxerjoch-Haus	2016:08:28 12:05:56	2016:08:28 12:06:03
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2016:08:28 12:34:57	2016:08:28 12:35:03	2016:08:28 12:35:09	2016:08:28 12:35:20	2016:08:28 12:35:31 View from the top of Weiße Wand looking toward Frauenwand.
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2016:08:28 12:40:22	2016:08:28 12:40:28	2016:08:28 12:42:17	2016:08:28 12:42:55	2016:08:28 12:46:49 I could see that the lifts were moving high above, and people were skiing on the glacier.
2016:08:28 12:47:03	2016:08:28 12:47:13 View from the top of Frauenwand looking toward Weiße Wand.	2016:08:28 12:50:31	2016:08:28 12:50:39	2016:08:28 12:50:47
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August 29 - Short Hike from Penkenalm to Penkenjoch
	2016:08:29 09:44:54	2016:08:29 09:45:24	2016:08:29 09:46:34	2016:08:29 09:47:45
2016:08:29 09:48:03 My Hotel, Manni's Sporthotel, is the yellow building in the center of the frame just to the right of the construction crane. The rooftop pool complex is visible to the right.	2016:08:29 09:48:39	2016:08:29 09:59:31	2016:08:29 09:59:42	2016:08:29 10:00:03
2016:08:29 10:00:14	2016:08:29 10:01:04	2016:08:29 10:03:04 Rain was forecast from mid-day on, so I lifted up from Mayrhofen to traverse the ridge to the lifts down to Finkenberg.	2016:08:29 10:03:42	2016:08:29 10:04:06
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2016:08:29 10:21:29 I did not see anyone rent a clear plastic sphere to roll around on the pond, but it was an available activity.	2016:08:29 10:24:15	2016:08:29 10:24:57	2016:08:29 10:27:37	2016:08:29 10:28:43
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2016:08:29 11:10:20	2016:08:29 11:13:33	2016:08:29 11:13:54 At the Finkenberg lift base, the digital and analog clocks agreed, for once, but did not concur with my camera clock...	2016:08:29 11:16:16	2016:08:29 11:16:46
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2016:08:29 18:37:48 At the end of the day, from the balcony of my room, I could see the last of the gondola cars ascend to the lift station for overnight storage.
August 30 - Traverse of the 'Panoramaweg' from Ramsau Lift to Brandberg
	2016:08:30 10:12:18 The next day, I took the train to Ramsau to hike the 'Panoramaweg' back to Mayrhofen.	2016:08:30 10:12:25	2016:08:30 10:12:42	2016:08:30 10:13:49
2016:08:30 10:14:24	2016:08:30 10:14:34	2016:08:30 10:15:19	2016:08:30 10:15:47 Walking to the lift in Ramsau, I passed the 'Pink Panther Pub'.	2016:08:30 10:20:11 The lift in Ramsau was not like the sophisticated industrial-grade lifts I had used previously. This was a long, slow, single-seat chairlift.
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2016:08:30 11:10:50	2016:08:30 11:57:01 I reached a crest on the trail and, looking at my map, I thought I should turn left to continue to Alte Kotahorn, a snack bar/lodge. So I continued left to reach this 'Berghotel Gerlosstein'. I checked the map and turned around, realizing that my left turn had been a mistake.	2016:08:30 12:00:14	2016:08:30 12:04:34 I passed Kotahorn Alm ('Kathahorn Alm').	2016:08:30 12:04:43
2016:08:30 12:05:05	2016:08:30 12:05:56	2016:08:30 12:06:24	2016:08:30 12:16:01 A few minutes later, I reached 'Alte Kotahornalm' and I was back on my intended hike on the 'Panoramaweg'.	2016:08:30 12:16:30 I presume it means this building is 400 years old. Could collapse at any minute.
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2016:08:30 12:42:32	2016:08:30 12:43:48	2016:08:30 12:43:56	2016:08:30 12:44:39 The trail led on to pass 'Karlalm'.	2016:08:30 12:44:47
2016:08:30 12:45:06	2016:08:30 12:48:17	2016:08:30 12:48:47	2016:08:30 12:49:00	2016:08:30 12:54:39 Soon after Karlalm, my hike crested and I started down on road and trail toward my next destination point: 'Steinerkogl'.
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2016:08:30 13:53:35	2016:08:30 13:55:13	2016:08:30 13:58:26 'Steinerkogl' was a rifugio that more closely resembled a suburban home than the isolated hut I'd become accustomed to.	2016:08:30 15:25:22 Looking down on Mayrhofen.	2016:08:30 15:25:40
2016:08:30 15:41:24 Looking at the map, it appeared that the knee-intensive descent from Steinerkogl to Mayrhofen through the woods would not be particularly charismatic. So I decided to walk down to Brandberg and take the bus back to Mayrhofen.	2016:08:30 15:51:07	2016:08:30 15:54:52 The bus stop at Brandberg, a sleepy hamlet situated up a tributary valley from Mayrhofen. 15 or 20 walkers arrived to take the (infrequent) bus. I was relieved that a full-size tour bus, and not a minivan, arrived to transport the crowd.
August 31 - Lift from Lanersbach - Hike Up Grublspitze
			2016:08:31 08:43:20 In the morning, the gondola cars were retrieved from overnight storage and descended to start their day's service lifting up and down.	2016:08:31 08:43:38
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2016:08:31 12:03:53	2016:08:31 12:04:42 I lifted up from Lanersbach to hike up to the grassy summit of Grublspitze.	2016:08:31 12:04:57	2016:08:31 12:05:23	2016:08:31 12:05:58
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2016:08:31 12:27:08	2016:08:31 12:27:17 Looking back toward the lift station. The first half of the trail was ski-area road, and not very charismatic.	2016:08:31 12:32:37	2016:08:31 12:38:46	2016:08:31 12:38:57
2016:08:31 12:39:11	2016:08:31 12:43:28 Ascending toward Grublspitze, the trail evolved into a charming ridge walk.	2016:08:31 12:44:43	2016:08:31 12:53:11	2016:08:31 12:53:22
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2016:08:31 13:08:22 View of the Hintertux Glacier from Grublspitze.	2016:08:31 13:12:00	2016:08:31 13:12:29	2016:08:31 13:21:09 Usually, there's a turnstile or gate to cross the electric fence. Here, you just have to step (carefully) over it.	2016:08:31 13:22:46
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2016:08:31 13:49:03	2016:08:31 13:55:29 Descending, I came upon a labeled panorama.	2016:08:31 13:55:57	2016:08:31 13:56:27	2016:08:31 13:56:43
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September 1 - Hike from Schlegeis Reservoir to Austro-Italian Border and Pfitscherjoch Haus
			2016:09:01 11:32:30 On my last hike day in Mayrhofen, I bused to the Schlegeis reservoir for a hike up to the Austria-Italy border. The last few miles of the one-lane road were controlled by stoplights on a 15(?)-minute cycle, so only up-bound or down-bound traffic was on the road at any time.	2016:09:01 11:32:53
2016:09:01 11:33:19	2016:09:01 11:33:38 The hike began with a stretch of road along the edge of the reservoir.	2016:09:01 11:34:28	2016:09:01 11:34:42	2016:09:01 11:36:31
2016:09:01 11:36:40	2016:09:01 11:46:29	2016:09:01 11:47:27	2016:09:01 11:50:02 Rodents should NOT litter.	2016:09:01 11:50:12
2016:09:01 11:50:37	2016:09:01 12:03:41	2016:09:01 12:14:52	2016:09:01 12:15:01	2016:09:01 12:16:26 Not sure this gate served any useful function. I presumed the sign requested closure of the gate after passage.
2016:09:01 12:16:37	2016:09:01 12:21:59 Much of the route traversed large rocks laid flat to ease the trail. But there was the occasional bridge - and phallic rock.	2016:09:01 12:24:47	2016:09:01 12:25:16 Seats and a table, suitable for a meeting. The camera case is about 5 inches long, for scale.	2016:09:01 12:25:53
2016:09:01 12:29:08	2016:09:01 12:29:31	2016:09:01 12:34:24	2016:09:01 12:45:10	2016:09:01 12:45:17 Hiking up into the cloud, I passed a rustic rifugio.
2016:09:01 12:50:07	2016:09:01 13:14:14	2016:09:01 13:15:41 Approaching the pass and the Austria-Italy frontier.	2016:09:01 13:15:55	2016:09:01 13:16:06 No border is complete without a stone marker on the boundary.
2016:09:01 13:16:23	2016:09:01 13:17:12	2016:09:01 13:21:54 I reached the Pfitscherjoch Haus rifugio on the Italian side of the border.	2016:09:01 13:22:05	2016:09:01 13:22:20
2016:09:01 13:36:51	2016:09:01 13:37:00	2016:09:01 13:37:06	2016:09:01 13:38:01	2016:09:01 13:43:00 Draft beer was popular in the rifugio.
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2016:09:01 14:10:48	2016:09:01 14:16:16	2016:09:01 14:16:46 Seemed like a strange place to park a car full of beer bottles.	2016:09:01 14:23:13	2016:09:01 14:24:18
2016:09:01 14:27:31	2016:09:01 14:33:02	2016:09:01 14:33:14	2016:09:01 14:39:27	2016:09:01 14:43:50 A group of hikers opportunely utilized the council chamber for a meeting.
2016:09:01 14:51:42	2016:09:01 14:51:57	2016:09:01 15:18:01	2016:09:01 15:20:52 I retraced my steps from the frontier to the reservoir.	2016:09:01 15:27:32
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Mayrhofen and Manni's Sporthotel
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2016:08:31 16:20:52 I did not ride the 'Panoramazug' tourist trolley.	2016:08:31 16:26:54 This poster in a Mayrhofen restaurant caught my eye. The Powder Ridge Rock Festival was blocked by injunction in the wake of Woodstock, which had taken place the previous August. Too bad this phenomenal line-up was never realized.	2016:08:31 16:27:21	2016:08:31 16:27:32	2016:08:31 17:01:30
2016:08:31 17:01:43	2016:08:31 17:03:24	2016:08:31 17:03:37 Adventures in shopping in Mayrhofen.	2016:08:31 17:03:48	2016:08:31 17:04:27 Schnapps Time at the bus stop.
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2016:08:31 17:11:53		2016:09:01 17:08:35 Not inordinately expensive for this tourist-trap destination resort, my room at Manni's was luxuriously endowed...	2016:09:01 17:09:14	2016:09:01 17:11:12
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2016:09:01 17:12:29	2016:09:01 17:13:07	2016:09:01 17:13:31	2016:09:01 17:13:44	2016:09:01 17:13:58 The shower in my room had three nozzles to choose from.
2016:09:01 17:14:20	2016:09:01 17:15:16	2016:09:01 17:15:28	2016:09:01 17:15:42 The bathroom faucet offered no temperature control, just a volume control: a metal rod, push it away to increase the flow.	2016:09:01 17:15:56
2016:09:01 17:16:09	2016:09:01 17:16:18	2016:09:01 17:16:42 The toilet chamber had an alcove containing an instruction sheet for the bidet built into the toilet. The alcove was lit by a rainbow-varying LED.	2016:09:01 17:16:49	2016:09:01 17:16:54
2016:09:01 17:17:17	2016:09:01 17:17:53	2016:09:01 17:18:12	2016:09:01 17:18:34	2016:09:01 17:19:21 The toilet-mounted bidet seemed diabolical to me, but I'm not a bidet user...
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2016:08:31 14:59:54 Manni's (HOT!) sauna was complemented with other sauna and steam rooms and a lovely rooftop pool complex.	2016:08:31 15:00:08 View from the sauna.	2016:08:31 15:00:20	2016:08:31 15:00:29	2016:08:31 15:00:46
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	2016:08:31 17:12:42	2016:08:31 17:13:15	2016:09:01 08:44:44	2016:09:01 08:44:52 Manni's Sporthotel provided a fine breakfast buffet - including the coffee/espresso/cappucino machine, one of my favorite items in the breakfast array. Note the rack containing assorted-size cups to match the beverage of choice.
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