Lazarow World-Hike-About

Why's he laughing? 'You want us to climb that monster?' Today's climb, picture taken from a different hike Ghost Mountains, scary to climb, beautiful to observe After more than an hour of steep going, editor in fine form Whenever we arrive in a town surrounded by mountains, one of them seems to make an impression that gets the ‘juices flowing’. The process repeated itself when we entered Seefeld last week. Hohe Munde is another example of a ‘slab’ making that impression—we’re not sure how to pronounce it yet. In the last two missives, it is understandably quite prominent. The problem of shooting for the peak is that it is only reachable on a non-technical basis once the snow melts, if at all. However, we decided that we would try and get as far as we could before danger signals triggered. A typical danger signal is when the editor asks for the car keys. More later… Yes, sir! Our first impression. This vantage point allowed us to see across the vall...

A scene from the peak, Seefeld Spitze, 7,287 feet above sea level— white dots, a light snow falling. Jenni at the peak as light snow falls after climbing 3,500 feet (The Austrians place benches all over) We stood transfixed trying to absorb everything possible For the first time ever, we immediately agreed while standing at the peak, we were in the most beautiful environment we had ever seen. Admittedly, the circumstances enhanced the scene. We find that in most places, whether it be the light, season, time, weather or other factors, the effect on the subject is different each day and even part thereof. For example, the movement of the clouds, their color and thickness, the snow, the occasional breakthrough of sunlight, all played a part in enhancing the formidable mountains surrounding us. The Village of Seefeld way below The cross or beacon in the distance signifies the peak; a few snowfields to cross en route along ridge A knockout. The snow sits on a l...

Editor drags us out of bed to watch the sky 'burn'. Looks like clouds on way to douse flames, the magic of nature Loving clouds smother the 'monster'. Envious. That's just where we'd like to be 'Loving' clouds now attack our favorite (the monster) a few hours after the first picture above. (This is the location of our next hike) Some of the trails are easier than the pronunciation of their names—it appears the Germanic nations use many letters in forming words. Possibly, it's a sign of sophistication of language compared with we who call a spade a spade...oops, we see their point now. This morning, the editor was struggling to sleep. It meant we went out early to see how the sun works in this part of the world. As far as we could tell, it's pretty much the same as everywhere else. The common denominator is that it's always a stirring few minutes before the ball of fire appears in the sky. What was particularly interesting ...

A view of today's hike to the peak (at rear) from the town of Seefeld Enormously impressive slabs—one can't take the eyes off them for long (Hohe Munde Ostgipfel & Westgipfel). Jenni reaches the peak with intermittent, swift gusts of winds, quite intimidating A view of the opposite side of the climb, summit of Seefelder Joch We find ourselves in Austria after landing in Switzerland. Normally, one would think that’s quite possible because we get lost very easily. However, this was an instance of no matter how hard we tried, we made it to our destination without diversions. It was an efficient journey but it lacked something—the excitement, frustration and interest of seeing parts that are not normally on the map—in other words, being lost. Seefeld in the Tirol is where we are for a while before we take a neutral position in Switzerland and then onto Italy. At time of writing, we understand that these three neighboring countries live in harmony with each ...