Austria trip, week 3: Hintertux, Salzburg, Ramsau, and Vienna
Robert & Courtney Schafer
June 2005
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Robert walks down a busy Salzburg street Yup - Mozart was born here Another Salzburg church The Pferdeschwemme - a very elaborate horse drinking trough The church in Ramsau am Dachstein
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Our hotel in Ramsau - the Hotel Pehab-Kirchenwirt View from our hotel room in Ramsau - the Dachstein massif Ice formation in the Dachstein Eishöhle (Ice cave) Pillar of ice Ice crystals growing ever further in the cave
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Massive ice tower Delicate ice formations "growing" from a ceiling crack A cathedral of ice Ice, ice, everywhere The ice is hundreds of feet thick in places
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Some spots were like being inside an iceberg More beautiful and bizarre ice formations Entire rooms of ice Another ice pillar Inside the Mammuthöhle (Mammoth Cave)
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The Mammuthöhle had huge passageways and rooms Another giant natural tunnel Winding our way through the cave The entrance to the Mammuthöhle, on a misty mountainside Looking over the roofs of Hallstatt to the Hallstätter See
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Robert on one of Hallstatt's cozy streets Inside Hallstatt's church Hallstatt's famous bone house Carefully painted skulls in Hallstatt's bone house The Dachstein Gletscherbahn, up the south face of the Dachstein
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Field of flowers Snowboarders enjoying the terrain park on the Dachstein glacier The Koppenkarstein klettersteig ascends the peak hidden in cloud Looking down the steep cliffs to the valley far below Snow and rock, over green meadows below
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Robert treks over the Dachstein glacier Courtney stands in a foot of fresh snow Sinuous snow curves on the glacier Courtney points out the Hoher Dachstein Climbers begin the klettersteig up the Hoher Dachstein
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The Hoher Dachstein, briefly free of cloud Climbers on the klettersteig route Robert on the Dachstein ridge Stark but beautiful glacier scenery Courtney and Robert near the Hoher Dachstein
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Two climbers silhouetted on the high ridge Robert beneath the face of the Hoher Dachstein A perfect natural halfpipe Descending in the cable car Dachstein scenery