Driving the Grossglockner.

[Thingy]

This is my first attempt at uploading to youtube. I will probably have to lower the quality slightly if buffering is an issue, but this is from our trip to Austria last year. Its the first of three, and covers from the Toll Station to the Grossglockner and glacier, with a particular highpoint from the 25 minutes to 35 minutes mark. However, the whole road is specatacular and looks good from around 10 minutes onwards. For technical information, the camera is a Mio Mivue 565 and has a built in speed camera database. As cameras film in small segments, in this case three minutes, I used a program called Avidemux 2.6 to combine them into a full movie. The program is free.

To watch it in a larger window, the quality is better on Youtube at https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=w-ucfA5tBqQ

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-ucfA5tBqQ&feature=youtu.be[/video]

Further segments are the glacier to the beautiful village of Heiligenblut, and the journey from the village back down. On arriving in Heiligenblut, we had to stop to give the brakes time to cool down, the autobox just wasnt holding us on the steepest parts.

 

[Thingy]

Some stills from the route.

Looking back on the ascent to Edelweisspitz.

Another view.

A view from the road towards our destination.

From Edelweisspitz looking towards the Grossglockner section. One heck of a road.

Looking down onto the Pasterze Glacier. This is much much smaller than my first visit in 1970. A massive amount has been lost.

And finally, The Grossglockner in all its majesty.

 

[Hutch]

Lovely piccys, I am near Zurich just now, might pop over to the Black forest tomorrow, and over to Austria next week as the weather getting better.

 

[Thingy]

We stopped in the Black Forest for two nights on the way back. Beautiful place but give me Austria any time. I would move there tomorrow.