The Bavarian Alps

I flew to Germany to meet up with Matthias and Peter so we could climb the highest peak in Germany.
The Zugspitze is 2963 meters high
and has a glacier and snow at the top all year round.
The hike up was both challenging and breathtaking
and took an epic 10 hours. We needed ropes and harnesses and even ice spikes for some of the harder bits.
We were planning on getting a gondola back down but we missed the last one and had to spend the night in a mountain hut. We hiked back down the next morning but had to go a different way that took us across the boarder into Austria.
So all up I spent about 15 hours hiking up and down and spent the night sleeping at 2100 meters.
I passed waterfalls and caves, saw mountain sheep and cows grazing, snow and ice and mountain lakes. It was an amazing experience and photos don't really do it justice but here are some.

Pics

The Dolomites

The world Mountain Bike Championships were in Italy this year. I put the word out and got together a group of 7 other lads from Brisbane and we headed over to the Dolomites (Mountain range in Northern Italy) for the weekend.
It was an epic trip and we crammed a lot into 48 hours.
We slept very little , ate some great food and drank some great beer and watched some exciting racing. We even managed to hire some bikes and ride through some spectacular alpine scenery.

Pictures here