Obviously being in the mountains in summer means going up to do some walking. With a so called 'Summer Karte' (summer card?) provided for free by Haus Lanka (In case you'd want to go and have a look yourself where these photos were made: HAUS LANKA, SCHLADMING).
With that summer card all cable trollies are free:
First day we went up the Planais mountain (1800m above sea level). Some nice views (and flowers):
Some people go back down to the valley differently (again, not us:-)):
The first half of the way down, from:
to: 
we did 'the hard' way (:-):
Back down in the valley (second half down we did take the cable trolley:-)), they were still working hard on the building project for the World Championship of Skiing. To be noted, we have been told actual building work is basically only possible for 6 months (as soon as the winter starts getting near, it gets too cold to do concrete works):
Back in time to relax a bit on the balcony with this view:
THE NEXT DAY
The next day we met up with friends (Peter, Inge and Matthijs) who happened to be on holiday in the same valley (not knowing from each other we would...:-)). We went out on another nice walk to the Giglachsee. First had to drive a bit (with some hearpin turns) to get to the starting point:
Here is an impression of the walk:
Did I say it was mostly UPHILL on the way to the see?:
To end up at the Giglachseehuutte:
with a view of the see:
Oh and on the way we also noted some local (?) 'wildlife':
And on this bombshell we end this part of the holiday story... More soon!!
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Oh wait.. I was going to put the best photo of the holiday here ... well, here it is:
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Again, amazing photos! The clarity of that best pic is incredible.
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