Wow, today is the big day - clear sky and so we head up the Zupspitzen mountain.
This is the highest mountain in Germany - 10,000 feet or 2950 meters. We take a cable car that travels pretty fast. It takes about 20 minutes to reach the top.
You can not see the top from the bottom. From the top you can look out and see Austria, Germany, and Italy off in the distance.
We are way above the tree line and there is a glacier off the back of the mountain. Amazing how they could build this thing. Absolutely beautiful, breath taking! How God could create such beauty and massive mountain. 
There is one little spot where people can climb out on a small ledge and over to a peak. They are crazy!
Many climb the entire mountain to the top. You can see little trails through the forest below as you go up the cable car. It takes about 2-3 days for the average person to climb. Some take a week to climb it. Some Germans can climb it is 4-6 hours. Germans are crazy about walking and climbing. Many come to the top with their little walking sticks and then climb down. Everywhere you see people walking and climbing through Germany.
After The Zupspitzen, we traveled through the mountains to find King Ludwig II castles. The main castle is called the Konigssclosser (castle of the king). It is high in the mountain - again, how did they build it way up there? This was an adventure to get too. Lots of walking up hill. Bill knows the back roads to beat all the buses and tours.
Then we went to King Ludwig's other castle - Kongigsscloss Linderhof. This one is much smaller and the one he lived in the most.
On the way we stopped by the Weiskirche. A beautiful rocco church in the middle of no where. There was a wedding going on so we stopped and watched for a while. Southern Germany seems to be the land of churches, cemeteries, mountains, and castles. And we are finding them all.
Bill is good at stopping by the side of the road, where there is no side of the road, to take pictures. We hang on the side of the mountain and while Chuck and Bill jump out to take a picture, I pray... We have pictures of everything....
We have been staying at the Riessersee Renaissance Hotel up in the mountains of Garmish. It looks over a valley.
There is a little hotel next to it called the Riessersee Hotel with a little resturant that is right on a lake at the base of the Zupspiten Mountain. We have eaten supper there every night.
It is run by some friends of Bills', Micheal and Barbara. They bought the hotel and resturant about three years ago from Barbara's family.
It is beautiful to watch the sun set over the mountain!
