Well Mary and I are back to our respective homes. The trip was a hoot!!!! No snags Except me not buying the correct ticket 3 months ago (typical me) I was lucky and changed my flight to leave on the correct day at a nice cost of 221.00 EU (do tha math) So anyway Dan, I think instead of Italy, we should shoot for Garmish. The lodge was a little pricey (meals etc) our room had 2 queen beds and full bath and was huge for 84.00 US a night BUT they do have cabins that sleep a lot of pep's for about 1k per week (check out the site) that would be about 500 each. The town is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO bike/walker friendly lot's of stuff for kids, I mean we could go ride and not worry about having to hurry back because the facility has enough to keep every family memeber busy. A LOT of mountian bikers, But we could either bring road with some thick tires and climb the col's on the dirt roads. I am not sure what type of single track there is outside of the hard hiking trails but bikes are allowed on all the public transport, even probably the lifts anyway check it out and rethink about the trip. http://www.edelweisslodgeandresort.com/faq.html
So onto pictures. Just various ones. We hiked upto the bottom of the Alpspitz the last 600 meters would have been really tough so we couldn't do it plus it took us 5 hours just to get to the tran back down. We started at 750m and stopped at 2050m so it was a good jaunt. Oh some German lady was trail running it. Made us feel........lazy. I'll tell ya more when we talk on the phone. I will be getting my ticket on or about the 1st on Nov for AZ!!!! That trip will be fun too, You are going right guy's (Dan Thomas)
