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Walking along a ridge can be a little disorienting. A few metres either side is thin air – lots of it! Once you’ve finished admiring this beautiful mushroom, check out the river in the distant valley below 🙂

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Another day, another walk. This time it is a peak called Brand (2,283m). Not enormous, but we started from Niederthai, at 1,550m, so it was a pretty solid 700+m climb to here.

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zirbenschnaps is flavoured by these pine cones. Incredibly sticky with their fragrant sap, they’re very pretty too!

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Add a description…This one was following a bike ride, for a change! It was every bit as good as it looks 🙂

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…and schnaps, there has to be schnaps! This is Zirben (pine) Schnaps.

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When you’ve just walked as far as we had, you’re entitled to a bit of nosh. That’s kaiserschmarrn, in case you’re wondering 🙂

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Lower down, as the stream gathered more water, it showed that distinctive glacial blue.

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I do love a good stream.

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And then we walked down. Another beautiful, ancient, glacial valley.

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Coooeee! Franz went ahead and climbed an extra peak. In a happy coincidence, he reached the summit as we reached the saddle. Nothing more than a white pixel here, but we could hear him yell.

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The network of trails is amazing. Little junctions and markers everywhere.

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Steady climb. Slow, and steady! 😉