We drove to the Kaprun valley a few miles away, and parked in the main car park. We walked up the valley to the bottom of the Lärchwand inclined lift, which is Europe's largest open inclined lift. It ascends 431 meters over a distance of 820 meters.
We bought return tickets for the lift which also included a bus trip from the top the the lift to the dam of the second reservoir up there. Including Oscar it cost 69 euros.
We thought at first we'd be on our own on the lift, but suddenly three coach loads of tourists arrived and filled it up.
This is a Google image of what it looks like from the outside.
From the top of the lift shuttle buses took us to the dam of the second reservoir. They contain glacial water so are a bright blue colour. The water level is actually quite low.
We crossed the dam and walked along the path beside the water, all the way to the far end of the reservoir. We crossed several streams on the way.
There were more marmots here.
Once we got back to the dam we climbed to the top of Hohenburg, a rocky peak separating two halves of the dam.
We caught the shuttle bus and the platform lift back down again. At the bottom of the lift we stayed with the crowd and caught their bus back down the valley, even though we hadn't paid for it. We then caught a free local bus back to the car park.
The two walk sections we did totalled 14 km and 560 metres of ascent.
Later for dinner we had a barbecue of marinated pork steaks, sweet pepper, courgette and kartofel salad.
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