Frauke and I headed across the border to Austria for the day to go for a mission in the hills. The plan was to do the Mindleheimer Klettersteig. We started late but made good progress and after 1.5 hours we were at a little hut below the ridge with our klettersteig route. We watched briefly as a helicopter rescued someone from the route before continuing. The helicopter was a nice yellow and looked not dissimilar to a taxi. I expect the fare would be quite steep however.
Above left: Flag flying in the down-draft from the helicopter. Above right: Rescue helicopter heading out to collect someone from our klettersteig route.
The klettersteig took us approximately 2.5 hours. We ran out of water about half way through and so we were very pleased when we descended into a valley and could fill our water bottles with fresh cold water (with just the smallest hint of alpine cow).
To stay healthy we consumed a tub of ice cream once we had returned to my flat.
Above and below: Frauke on the klettersteig route. Below right: Bird in the blue near our last peak.
Update for Johannes 10/7/2018: Looking at photos it seems like the whole trip took us around 7.5 hours. I don’t remember it being too scary but then again someone was rescued by helicopter on the route because she was too scared to continue so perhaps it was a bit scary??
Here’s a map of the route…
And another one…
And a Google Earth file…