After such an amazing experience on Austria’s highest mountain we had asked Matthius for some other easier routes in the area. He had given us advice on some via ferrata. We got all excited and then the weather as expected turned awful again for the next 4 days so we were all but rained out from rock related activities boooo. We managed to get a day out on the bikes and did a half day valley ride and also spotted a cool via ferrata that we returned to the next day.
It was up a steep side little gorge and took you up a few hundred metres over a few wire bridges and then under a viewing platform and pops you out by the falls. From there, there was another 4 hour climb that could have been done but the grading was a little tougher than we had done before and we had no water or kit for a full day on the rock. This aside, I gave the first section a try knowing that there was an escape route off about 60m up. It wasn’t climbing that’s for sure, it was hauling yourself up a cable over slick polished slab rock. Not much fun but good to know I could haul myself up a grade D ferrata. I took the escape route down and met Lisa back on the platform.
Our next big stop was going to be Zugspitze in Germany so we gave ourselves a few days to get over the border and get some maps and info before the good weather slot 3 days later. We made an overnight stop near Europe’s highest waterfall and spent a morning walking around there and up to various levels of the falls although it was a damp and misty morning so the views weren’t spectacular. From here we headed to Innsbruck for the afternoon. After eventually finding a non underground parking that we could squeeze the van into we had a wander, found a few good shops and the map we needed for Zugspitze and did a mini tour of the old city centre. Definitely somewhere to spend more than an afternoon exploring and a great base to be near the mountains.
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