Visit to Katja & Martin in US

Mountainbiking in the Alps

Now I have some time to give a short report on the short trip into the Alps that one of my best friends Patrick and myself had in August.

There were a few days in August with good weather conditions for a short trip into the Alps. We decided to go on mountain bike tours in the region of Obertirol: Nauders at the Reschenpass.

Nauders is located in Austria, close to the borders of Italy and Switzerland. A very nice location for mountain biking, like many other areas in the Alps. There are enough one-day tours available to spend a couple of days in the small tourist village.

We decided to pass the Switzerland-tour: You need to climb 1000m to Alp Tea at around 2000m height. From there you have a fantastic view down to village Nauders.

A nice, very long downhill and another mountain with some single trails brings you back home:

Another great tour is called Panorama-tour. This leads us to Italia over a 2100m mountain, where you pass the border from Austria to Italia passing old bunkers and concrete anti-tank walls:

Some minutes later you reach a rock where you can take fantastic pictures and have an overwhelming view over lake Reschen and panorama view to the highest mountain in this region: Ortler with over 3900meters.

On the 4th day the rain was getting too heavy and we decided to go back home and return next year! Maybe next time we go some kilometers more south in the region of Südtirol.

If anyone is interested in more details, please feel free to contact me (write a comment).

You can view the tours details (view them in Google Earth etc.) on:

Patricks GPS tracking page

Former inner-german border

Some of my best friends and myself used the nice weather today, we went on a trip to the area of the former inner-german border (border east <> west germany). We have been somewhere between the cities Meiningen and Mellrichstadt.

There was an art-exhibition with sculptures and luckily I could take take some interesting pictures there. Here you can view some of them: