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An Adventurous Hut-to-Hut Hiking Trip in the Austrian Alps

A writer travels to Austria for what he believes will be a pleasant hut-to-hut hike in the Austrian Alps. On the hike, he finds cozy lodges and traditional Austrian food as well as one hell of a climb. ....

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Inside the Thrilling, Slightly Terrifying World of Austrian Hut-to-Hut Hiking

Inside the Thrilling, Slightly Terrifying World of Austrian Hut-to-Hut Hiking
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© Photo by Daniel Müller
Inside the Thrilling, Slightly Terrifying World of Austrian Hut-to-Hut Hiking
Photo by Daniel Müller I’m told there was nothing to see at first, just a staccato rumble thundering up from the valley below. It had been a quiet afternoon in Tyrol, the next blast of summer rain still just a threat to the east. Over at the mountain hut Bettelwurfhütte, the day’s arrivals moved out to the patio as the rumble approached. For 125 years the stone and wood structure has been a refuge for weary hikers, an outpost of warm beds and hot goulash high on the southern face of Austria’s Kleiner Bettelwurf. At 6,814 feet, when the patio is not shrouded in ghostly mist, the view takes in the full vertiginous majesty of the surrounding peaks. Elsewhere in his beloved Alps, the 19th-century English art critic John Ruskin wrote of the “ghastly poise” ....

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