Winter Camping

December 31st, 2007

Nothing beats packing the VW van full of goodies and gear and hitting the road. This time we thought we’d try out “Ilse” the bus in the winter… so we organized snow shoes, winter gear, bought a full tank of gas to feed the heater and piled some good food into the cupboards and headed south. South means Austria, don’t forget!

Along the way we decided to make a little detour to a frozen waterfall that I knew of and promtly ran into our first adventure: Ilse got stuck in deep snow. Eventually a “friendly” local speaking a language we thought we spoke as well had mercy on us and pulled us out of the ditch. After that things went smooth.

Sometime in the afternoon we found a deserted road below the mighty peaks of the Wilder Kaiser and parked Ilse. We cranked the heater up, cooked up a serious bowl of noodles and enjoyed the 5sqm of VW bliss. After a Jägermeister or two we didn’t even notice the sub-zero temperature outside anymore…

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