Zugspitze

Snow! You would think at the end of December in the Bavarian Alps this wouldn’t be such an exciting thing. But it was! Unfortunately when we arrived in Fussën, the area had a heat wave and all of the snow melted. This messed up our plan to do the longest sledding run in Germany. So as an alternative to our original plan we went to Zugspitze which is the highest mountain in Germany.

Zugspitze is over 9,000 feet tall and when it’s a nice day you can view Italy, France, Austria, and Switzerland. But not today. The snow was falling very heavily which led to almost white out conditions. Which was so much fun!

While up there we were able to do some sledging with both a traditional sled and a fast sledge. It was a lot of fun but on one run Jake got stuck in 4 feet of fresh powder and had to roll down the whole hill in order to escape.

We also ran into this really amazing Igloo Hotel made completely out of ice. It was so cool!Read more