After Neuschwanstein, we spent the night in a hotel and then headed out to Zugspitze. Zugspitze is the tallest mountain in Germany at a little over 10,000 feet tall. After finding some parking we headed over and picked up our gondola ride tickets. The gondola goes pretty much to the top of the mountain, and since we were planning on exploring with Roslyn's Omi we couldn't hike to the top.
After the gondola ride we walked around the top look out area, just enjoying the view. At the base of Zugspitze it was about 30C, but it was only about 12C at the top. It was great. After the walk around the platform we were drawn to the mountains peak in the image below.
We probably looked at it for about five minutes before we got going towards it. Roslyn's Omi and her sister Candace stayed behind, but Roslyn, Jamie, and I climbed down the access stairs and up the spur to the peak.
It was pretty crowded, with the path being only about as wide as a person, but people trying to go both directions. It took us about 20 minutes to make our way to the peak and we stayed up there for a bit taking pictures and just looking around. One of the coolest parts was that there is a pretty well traveled hiking path that goes up the north face of Zugspitze to the peak and then down the south face. We hope to go back and complete it someday.
After coming down from the peak, we headed down from the viewing platform to the mountain bowl in a different gondola to walk around and explore some. There were some cool views, plants and artfully stacked rocks to look at. We probably walked around for about an hour before rejoining Omi and heading down. The last picture is on one of the paths down from the peak to the bottom of the bowl. We didn't have proper hiking boots so we couldn't do it.
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