Alps Autumn Atmosphere

 

 

Garyo, whose pilgrimage travelogue with beautiful pictures posted here recently, had her hike in the lower Alps and shared her pictures with me. So, I wanted to share them with our readers. She kindly prepared her notes on those pictures as below: 

 

 

Two days ago, I went for a day hike in the lower Alps, an area called Ramsau. It is

approximately one hour south of Vienna. The weather was unusual warm and

stormy.  Sometimes, several feet high dried leaves , collected by the wind, covered

the path.

 

 

 

 

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I went with my hiking friend Waltraud, who seems to know every mountain in this

area.  Only a few flowers had survived previous cold days.  Most of them have turned

into seeds.

 

 

 

 

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 Some areas were covered with golden brown grass

 

 

 

 

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We followed the red, white red marking of the trail.

 

 

 

 

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When we arrived at the Enzianhütte, the cabin in the top of the mountain Kieneck

(3400 feet), the weather had turned.  Dark clouds were coming from the south.

We were the only guests in the cabin.  All the other hikers had left already.

 

 

 

 

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It was a great sky with unusual cloud formations. The light turned the distant

mountains into fading blue shapes.

 

 

 

 

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By 5 p.m., it turned dark already.  Unfortunately, the clouds covered the almost full

moon. The last section of the trail, we had to hike in the dark.

 

 

 

 

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Sunset

 

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