At the Schneeberg

Excellent weather conditions brought us to the decision to go to Lower Austrias highest mountain – the Schneeberg. It's the easternmost 2000 m-high mountain in the Alps. We took the rack-and-pinion railway, the Schneeberg Railway, which is now over 100 years old, to climb to a height of 1,800 m (with a stop at the famous Buchtel hut on our way up). On the plateau we hiked in an unhurried atmosphere for several hours. Late in the afternoon we returned to Vienna.