Snow Mountain

Last Saturday we drove an hour and a half southwest of Vienna into the Alps. Schneeberg (Snow Mountain) has some of the most dramatic, imposing scenery we have seen here. Puchberg, a small town nearby, seems largely geared to skiers, and we saw many a chair lift on slopes that we drove past. One narrow, winding road led us under a cliff crawling with rock climbers. The little road was cut into the cliff, and there were climbers directly above us as we drove through. Flashing through my mind was the memory of our dining room in Okinawa, where geckos made their way upside down across the ceiling, sometimes during our dinner hour; careless teenage geckos would occasionally lose their footing and drop onto the dining table. We were pleased to make it past the rock without a such an incident. The pictures below are of the Schneeberg area and Puchberg.