The plan for Easter Sunday was to make a relaxing bicycle tour at the shores of Lake Constance, with a visit or two at a beer garden. And an ice cream parlour.
Well, that was my plan anyhow... Turned out She_who_must_be_obeyed had a slightly different idea...


I'm still fuzzy on the details (probably 'cause I got kicked out of bed in the middle of the night) but there wasn't a lake. Nor a beer garden.

Well, there actually was a lake. Frozen. At 2.000m altitude. And the beer garden was the Wiesbadener H�tte, 2443m. And a couple of hours away...


Walking on the frozen Silvretta barrier lake, Montafon region in Austria. The peak is the "Hohes Rad" at ~2.900m.



View towards the "Kleine Schattenspitze", ~2.800m. Our route would lead us up the vallery to the left.




Up that valley leads a path to the Rote Furka and the Silvretta or Saarbr�cker H�tte refuges



Southern face of the Hohe Rad




Piz Buin (3.312m) in the distance, right on the border between Switzerland and Austria. I've been wanting to climb that peak for years. But not with ice and snow. Maybe this summer...




Silvrettahorn (to the left) and Schattenspitze (both ~3.200m)




Aaaand finally, view from the Wiesbadener H�tte

Excellent pics as always Para.

The beer is missing from the last pic, Para!

But it looks gorgeous! Will the snow melt later in spring?

Thanks guys!












Yes, but it will take until June until the snow is really gone at that altitude. Then it will look like this:

You always show the most amazing scenery in your pictures, I'm envious.