A solo trip to get fit before going on the
OAV Advanced Rock and Ice Course

Summer 1967
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The trip was made in 1967 and I am writing this page in 2008. Whilst I am retrieving a lot of long-forgotten things from my memory there is a lot missing

I have several motives for writing-up these accounts and one is certainly to make available some of my photos from the 1960's.

Lizumer Hütte

Having arrived from the UK and spent the night in Innsbruck, I left some of my climbing gear in a locker at the station and then got myself to Wattens. I started the 5hr toil up the valley to reach the Lizumer Hütte and I was finding it hard work. A car driven by a monk in brown robes stopped and offered me a lift which took me right to the top of the valley. Before depositing me he insisted on giving me a packed lunch, which I suspect was his own lunch.

I arrived very early at the hut and dumped my stuff in the matratzenlager before going for a stroll up the valley above the hut. When I returned there was an English family in the hut who said they were glad to see me since the hut warden had said I spoke excellent German. This was news to me! However, we must take this as a compliment to my teacher, John Manton, and particularly his sensible use of language laboratory facilities in teaching

Tuxer-Jochhaus

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Geraer Hütte

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Brenner Pass

Heading West one has the Brenner pass to cross. From the Geraer Hütte you descend through old farms and villages to reach the Brenner. I croosed into the Gschitztal and toiled up the tarmac road to its end at the Gasthof Feurstein where I spent the night.

Next day was raining as I can still remember the footpath covered in black and yellow Salamanders which were sluggish in the cold rain. I may have gone to the Innsbrucker Hütte, although 41 years later, I cannot recall it. Otherwise I might have had a long day and gone straight to the Bremer Hütte, of which I have a photo.