THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD. Тhe trip unfolds (III)
► █░▓ GERMANY IS BEHIND us. The super car (thank you, Stefano!) has now to perform through the three 10-km-long tunnels in a row across the Alps. Just entering Austria is always an exciting experience for me. It's exactly half of the way, the magnificent Alps are looming in the distance at long last, and half of my ancestors are actually born there, in the heyday of the K.u.K. Gone are the monotonous, unending German freeways; welcome the scenic vistas and cheap gasoline!
Approaching The Great Pyhrgas (2244 m) from the north by the highway A9. The ridge (under which the Bosruck tunnel takes you to the Enns valley on the other side) divides Upper Austria, the birth state of Anton Bruckner, from Styria, the birth state of many Slavs and next to what used to be my home country. I cropped out the turnpike and the vehicles from this image. I tried but couldn't include the super car in the frame here.
This is the first high mountain top that the highways leads us to when coming from Passau via Wels. I've been playing with a thought to make a two-day stop in Spital am Pyhrn for many years. The idea to attempt the Pyhrgas top has still not completely left me. I had studied the maps, approaches, overnight accommodation etc, yet never came to realization. It's the call of the South that always takes precedence once I am there. After all, it's just a 5-hour drive to my ancestry from there. Long ago, I made a stop at the foot of Dachstein, which was too much for me to climb in a single day. I also made a stop once at Hochschwab on another occasion and climbed Vordernberger Griesmauer (2015 m) from Leobnerhütte, such a nice place to stay overnight.
Stay tuned, is to be continued... because this vehicle got me soon to the very places I deemed pinnacles of my wish list. The places that represent the end of a paved trajectory: the point where the real (unpaved) fun begins. The sunny side of the Alps!
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THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD. Тhe trip unfolds (III)
► █░▓ GERMANY IS BEHIND us. The super car (thank you, Stefano!) has now to perform through the three 10-km-long tunnels in a row across the Alps. Just entering Austria is always an exciting experience for me. It's exactly half of the way, the magnificent Alps are looming in the distance at long last, and half of my ancestors are actually born there, in the heyday of the K.u.K. Gone are the monotonous, unending German freeways; welcome the scenic vistas and cheap gasoline!
Approaching The Great Pyhrgas (2244 m) from the north by the highway A9. The ridge (under which the Bosruck tunnel takes you to the Enns valley on the other side) divides Upper Austria, the birth state of Anton Bruckner, from Styria, the birth state of many Slavs and next to what used to be my home country. I cropped out the turnpike and the vehicles from this image. I tried but couldn't include the super car in the frame here.
This is the first high mountain top that the highways leads us to when coming from Passau via Wels. I've been playing with a thought to make a two-day stop in Spital am Pyhrn for many years. The idea to attempt the Pyhrgas top has still not completely left me. I had studied the maps, approaches, overnight accommodation etc, yet never came to realization. It's the call of the South that always takes precedence once I am there. After all, it's just a 5-hour drive to my ancestry from there. Long ago, I made a stop at the foot of Dachstein, which was too much for me to climb in a single day. I also made a stop once at Hochschwab on another occasion and climbed Vordernberger Griesmauer (2015 m) from Leobnerhütte, such a nice place to stay overnight.
Stay tuned, is to be continued... because this vehicle got me soon to the very places I deemed pinnacles of my wish list. The places that represent the end of a paved trajectory: the point where the real (unpaved) fun begins. The sunny side of the Alps!
The cameraphone capture edited in Snapseed app.
~SHORTCUTS~ ...→Press [F11] and [L] key to engage Full Screen (Light box) mode with black background ↔ Press the same key or [Esc] to return... →Press [F] to "Like" (Fave)... →Press [C] to comment.