Well our time in the Alps has come to and end for now, that is at least until the ski season starts. We've spent the last 4 days in Innsbruck Austria, a city of about 130,000 located in a small valley surrounded by massive mountains. In our first day here we visited the famous Innsbruck castle, the Schloss Abras, sitting right on the side of a mountain overlooking the city. Inside was a museum put together of artifacts dating back as early as the 14th century, of which the most interesting by far was the historical collection of authentic midevil knights armour and weapons, which were used for battles in the courtyard thousands of years ago.
After this we went for a small hike around trying to find our way to some form of public transit, quite unsuccessfully. Because of these aimless wanderings this was pretty much it for any sightseeing for the day. Our second full day here in Innsbruck we took a cable car up one of the larger mountains, and were able to get quite the view of the city and surrounding mountains. The highest we were able to get on this mountain was about 24 hundred meters, just below the clouds and high enough for there to be just a little bit of snow. Once we got up there we decided to go for a bit of a hike around the top, which turned out to be a good 4 hour hike. Randomly, a few hours into the hike we came across some ones house, smack in the middle of no where, who was operating a make shift restaurant. We decided to grab some lunch, and pull a seat out side, as there was a pretty amazing view from his deck as you can see in the picture below.
The interesting part of the hike was finding our selves some what lost on the other side of the mountain with an hour and a half to get back to the cable car for the last ride down. Thankfully we made it, with time to spare. From there it was on to St. Anton for day three, to check out potential jobs for the ski season and the hills we will hopefully be skiing on in the near future. Needless to say it was quite the place, and we're defiantly looking forward to settling down in the lively little ski village for the winter.
