Leutasch Valley, Austria

The second half of our trip was base camped in the Leutasch Valley in Austria. It was absolutely beautiful. Of course, getting there was another matter. We ended up stuck in traffic for 45 minutes plugging along only to find that this was the source of the major back up.

From Leutasch Valley, Austria - Hiking

Moving on from there we were smooth sailing until we got to Mittenwald, one of the gate keeper towns before arriving in Leutasch. We had a GPS system in our car that worked great throughout our whole trip until this town. She failed us miserably. We think the roads were so close and her somewhat spotty directions on curved roads caused most of the trouble. We finally made it through that town and crossed into Austria only to find ourselves on the craziest mountain road ever with a Porche who wanted to drive much faster than Rob parked right behind him. We are talking one and a half lane roads with pull offs for traffic in the other direction. Rob managed to do that drive well, although it was nerve racking. I think our destination more than made up for the crappy drive in though.

View from our room:

From Leutasch Valley, Austria - Hiking

View from our pension:

From Leutasch Valley, Austria - Hiking

The next fews days we spent around this town were fantastic. Stay tuned!