Wendelstein to Bayrischzell

Lizelle had taken the Tuesday leave, and Colin had taken that day as well, Colin had also taken the Wednesday as we were heading out together. See the next post for that. Today the plan was to go do a hike at Wendelstein.

We took the Wendelsteinbahn/Wendelstein cog railway up to the top and then was sightseeing at the top.

Wendelsteinbahn/Wendelstein cog railway

Wendelsteinbahn/Wendelstein cog railway heading up

There were so many great views to see, was a bit hazy off in the distance so bit of a pity but generally was fine.

Mountains

Restaurant and cable car

Top

Restaurant & Cable station

Birds

Mountains

Top

Restaurant

Wooden horse

Mountains

View

Statues at top

Observatory at top

Pointing out the eduroam wifi access point

Cross

View

Restaurant area

There was a astronomical observatory up at the top which was cool to see from the outside, I joked with people back at work if I could claim S&T for the trip to visit a observatory overseas. I also got eduroam connection at the top which was pretty cool.

We did a quick walk on a route called Panoramaweg which took us maybe an hour or so.

Panoramaweg

Panoramaweg showing railway tracks

Panoramaweg, railway heading up/down

After that we checked out the Wendelsteinhöhle (which were some ice caves, not quite as big as the Markschellenberg ones).

Wendelsteinhöhle

Lizelle & Me in Wendelsteinhöhle, was hard to get a good photo, as so many people, so little space

Lizelle & Me in Wendelsteinhöhle - we both weren't smiliing when pic was taken

Wendelsteinhöhle

After that we had a tasty lunch (oh and beer) at the restaurant at the top before embarking on the walk down.

Lunch: Curryworst

Beer with a view

Colin, Lizelle & Me

The walk down was super steep, we walked down to Bayrischzell.

Strava recorded route
Distance: 5.85km
Moving Time: 1:58:39
Pace: 20:17/km
Elevation: 17m

Me & Lizelle heading down

Halfway down looking back up

Further down looking back up

We stopped at Bergcafe Siglhof which made a good pit stop near the bottom for drinks so had a beer and then checked the train times back, worked out we could just make the one train if we hussled, so we did that, the train was a little late as well so we got there in ample time.

Field before Bergcafe Siglhof

Bergcafe Siglhof

Bergcafe Siglhof Lizelle's drink

Bergcafe Siglhof Colin & Me enjoying our beers

Bergcafe Siglhof chickens

Tookabout 2hrs to get down the about 5.5km or so and we lost about 1000m of elevation, Strava didn't record that as it want's to do up and down it seems. We got the train (we were at the 1st stop) at the end of the line so managed top get seats, it got really full as we went on. Was a crying baby in our carriage which made the journey back very painful. Not sure why the mother didn't give it a pacifier.

Looking back to the top

Forest path

At the station, pointing out where we walked from

When back in Munich we decided to go to an Italian Restaurant called Il Galeone for dinner. Had a really nice pizza from there and then we had a super tasty ice cream from this super popular place called Sarcletti was a big queue outside even though it was 9pm on a Tuesday evening.

Dinner: Pizza at Il Galeone

Sarcletti