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Through Silberkarklamm
Austria – day 2 – hiking through the Silberkarklamm, which is a mountain pass featuring a wild brook meandering between the rocks. The path following the brook leads you up to the hut Silberkarhütte, wooden stairs are supporting your steps in some parts. You have to pay a fee to enter the pass and if there are more people, you need to be patient, especially at the beginning when everybody starts climbing the first stairs. Later the line spreads and you can enjoy the atmosphere much better. We visited the pass on Monday morning and there were not many people except our group, I guess on weekends and afternoons the…
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Up to Hofpürglhütte
Back to Austria – day 1, when we were taken to Filzmoos and then a bit further to Almsee. That one is a very small lake, much smaller than we expected, but there is an intersting building on the way to it. It is the Chapel of Maria am Steineggl and surprisingly it’s quite new, having been consecrated in 2016. Above the door, the words are: “In der lebendigen Natur geschieht nichts das nicht in Verbindung mit dem Ganzen steht” which could be translated to English as “Nothing happens in living nature that is not connected with the whole“. Thought-provoking, isn’t it? I was prepared to be looking for it in some…
