This Article first appeared in
AAC(UK) Newsletter 168
published Winter 2005
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Last updated 04 December 2007
Summer Meet at Mittenwald, July 2006
By John Biggins
The evening of the 23rd July saw 15 of us gathering, in response to Ewen Moir's fraternal call, for an opening meal at Gasthaus Romerschanze. Sunday soon revealed the limitations of the Kompass Wanderkarten as a number of mismatches between the maps and the actual terrain revealed themselves! Nevertheless useful explorations to the Brunnsteinhütte, Hochlandhütte and the Kranzberg Hills were made. Good to be back in the Alps again!
Overall the accommodation at our two Hotels garnis, 'Bavaria' and 'Zur Brücke', was good and, apart from one real soaker of a teatime thunderstorm, the week was wonderfully sunny.
And so the holiday unwound. There were tours of the local lakes (with impromptu bathing), to Elmau, the Wamberg Hills and the Eckbauer Bahn, with lovely 1920s swingboat type chairs. There were also visits to the Hoher Sattel, the Wettersteinhütte and the Karwendel top station, at 2244m, with views of the whole of the Karwendel and over the Wetterstein to the Zugspitze. From the top station the Nördliche Linderspitze was reached and descent made via the Dammkarhütte.
With various people taking 'days off' to Garmisch, Linderhof, Neuschwanstein, Benediktbeuern and to do some gentle cycling, the week produced a satisfying mix of good walking and good relaxation, in suitably warm and sunny weather. How many evenings were there on which we had to be quietly ushered homewards by café owners, desperate to close, after all but the English had long since gone to their beds……?
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Last updated: 04 December 2007