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17. Innsbruck
Photo Gallery
A low-hanging overcast sky kept me from seeing too much of the surrounding mountains, unfortunately. The town itself is pretty lovely, though, and I visited the enjoyable Schloss Ambras in the morning. In the afternoon I rode up the Hungerburgbahn, but not all the way to the top as it seemed to be pretty socked in with clouds. The hike up through the forest overlooking the city was beautiful, even with the gloomy weather. The Austrians waste no time with their hiking trails; they simply charge straight up the steepest available slope. I was overtaken by some astonishingly fast hikers, all carrying poles. There are some insanely wild little mountain bike tracks here, marked with very ominous danger signs, and some exceptionally crazy wooden terrain structures. I never saw anyone on these, but I would have been impressed if I had! At around 1500m elevation, I hit the clouds and turned around. Couldn't have been much more than 5°; as holes in the clouds appeared, I could see that what looked like a good amount of snow had fallen above 2000m. Looks a bit like Vancouver in winter.
Admiring the excellent view from the tower in the city center in the evening, I talked with a local economics student and a girl friend of his from South America. When I explained that I was about to start war-walking to check my e-mail, he very kindly offered to let me use his computer at his apartment. They cooked a huge pot of spaghetti for us and for his roommate and neighbors. So it was a very fine Austrian evening.