Sunday, April 10, 2011

Avalanche Track

Daniela informed herself about this very very steep track, and convinced me to do it. Good for that. We met a German girl so tried to walk this circuit track in four occasions and she could not because of bad weather.

We were lucky this time, and after driving up mountain roads (2nd gear...) the weather was nice. BUT, two days ago they had a lot of snow, and the ranger suggested that we shouldn't take the Avalanche way up, since it was too dangerous, aand take the Scott's track instead (both ways). After reaching the top, and seeing that the conditions weren't as bad, we decided to go down the Avalanche path. As of today, two days later, Daniela is still walking strange, and me too, to some extend, due to the muscles hurting...

But nice that we went up, 1100 m of walking/climbing, for a total of 6 hours. We saw on the summit a Kea! The only Alpine parrot bird that exist. Really curious and intelligent bird, and also cool to see them wild in their natural habitat, and with such nice views of the Alps on snow.

It was time to get used to snow, since the next stop was to be Franz-Josef Glacier.

Regards from the other side of the planet!
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2 comments:

  1. entiendo que controlen el acceso a ese país es el compendio de nuestro planeta tiene lo mejor de el, para que no se estropee deben contar el numero de habitantes que lo pisan

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  2. La verdad es que si que es un paraiso natural, aunque te sorprenderia cuánto han cambiado el pais los europeos desde aire vinieron cerca del 1800.

    De todas maneras, aun es probablemente el pais mas 'virgen' que hay por el mundo.

    Un saludo i gracias por tu email - doctor

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