On Saturday, Max thought he would show the parents a pensioner-friendly ascent in the Mutters-Natters region ( no, really, it is. Presumably they are a chatty bunch , and rejected Nutters-Matters as unsuitable).
Discovered our guest pass entitled us each to one free ride up the egg lift from Mutters, so it was rude not to .
Austria does not believe in flat paths, except along the valley bottom. It was a stroll by Max standards , but a good workout for us. ( He casually mentioned that his last run had been rated at 600 ( some measure of energy burned ) by his Strava app – our walk came in about 30 …)
However, we did enough to justify a carbo-heavy lunch at the mountain hut (‘alm’) of Götzens, featuring the densest dumplings I’ve ever tried ( ooo-er). With which ballast inside us, the walk back was another challenge .
We did get great views down over the Inn valley ( Innsbruck being ” Bridge over the River Inn” ), and spotted an amusing sign on that way back to the car, if you like that sort of thing –
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