The mountains! Part 1.

Jim and I went to the mountains in Austria last weekend! We stayed in Obertraun near Hallstadt on a lake. It's the offest- off season imaginable (between summer and ski season) so it was very very quiet, but absolutely beautiful.

Some pics, of course...

We stayed at this place, right on the water - we were the only guests on Friday night, but there was another family on Saturday night... We had a room facing the lake and the mountains. It was GORGEOUS.


The view from our room on Saturday morning...


We decided to hike around the lake to Hallstadt, a beautiful town across the lake. There are two ways around the lake - clockwise and counter clockwise. Clockwise, it's 18 km. Counterclockwise, it's 5 km. Of course, we took the longer hike.



The trail began on the side of the water in the woods. The leaves were still on the trees (I think they're like oaks, they just don't fall off) - and beautiful red. And for some reason, there's a lamppost in the middle of the woods.The trail....



The trail a little further down...