¬A¬ handbook for travellers in Southern Germany : being a guide to Würtemberg, Bavaria, Austria, Tyrol, Salzburg, Styria, ecc., the Austrian and Bavarian Alps, and the Danube from Ulm to the Black Sea
Austria* ROUTE 202 .— RAD GASTEIN TO SALZBURG, 253 ofthe Gross-Glockner and Its glaciers, and S. of the Alps, which form the boundary of Italy. Immediately beyond the Col, on. the S, side, a substantial Tmtemhaus has «been built, a sheltered spot, where the common refreshments of bread, cheese, and wine, and beds, may be procured in summer ; but the owner lives alone, and sometimes de scends into the "valley. The descent is rapid, traversing the Manhard Alp, and through a charming valley
is much frequented in winter by smugglers. The course they take is by a ridge called the Sckeiu- bretkopf, which they surmount in 4 hrs hard climbing. As soon as they V the opposite declivity they seat theiuselves on a hoard, provided for that purpose, and in this rude sledge dash down the snow-covered precipice with such rapidity as to traverse in 10 to 15 min. a distance which would take several hrs. to ascend; so rapid sir course, that, in their own Is* a father could not recognise his own «on were
