I had a day off during the week and the weather was so nice that I went for another alpine hike. I started in a small Austrian village just at the other end of the border and followed the Tor brook uphill. It has a canyon but I was walking on the upper rim of it.



The mountains in this area are called the Karwendel mountains and I could see them coming closer as I followed the brook:


In this region there are not only sprice and fir but also mountain maple. They are up to 800 years old. They will be golden in autumn but were still green:



The trail continued into the narrow valley between the mountains in the back and then began to climb the back of the mountain in front: 3000 ft climbing.



The cross looks like the top but it was only a saddle 600 ft below the top. The sun was wonderful and I have a sunburn on my legs