Tuesday, December 25, 2007

Christmas Travels: Part 1

Hey parents, look we're still alive! Yay! This is us in Salzburg. We're back in Landeck now but now for long. Soonwe will be heading west and then neth to Munich. Merry Christmas!

We got to go ice climbing too! It was awesome. Tom climbing below.
Me trying out my new ice tools on a WI 4+ (estimate)

My first "mixed" route with a couple rock and ice stemming moves:



Allies's first route a long WI 3. She did awesome, but tried to rock climb. It's hard to smear with crampons on.

Chris "the princess" and Tom "ice god" getting pretty for the camera:

Allie stepping it up on "Sektor Platte":




The Schloss in Landeck Christmas eve where we went for a viewing of the Zams man choir:


Mountains looking north from the Schloss:

Hand carved wooden nativity scene:


Christmas (eve) dinner. Spinat Spaetzle with red pepper creme sauce and a nice salad. We celebrated Austrian style and opened our gifts on Chrismas eve after dinner.

Allie enjoying the ride to the top of the ski area in Imst before enjoying the ride down on the "Alpin Coaster", the longest alpine coaster in the world.
Us at the top before the decent:
Once we made it to the bottom. Rule number two; the brakes don't exist.

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