Skiing Thru an UNDERGROUND TUNNEL on Germany's Highest Mountain in Garmisch Zugspitze PT. 2
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ก.พ. 2022
- Garmisch Partenkirchen and the Zugspitze are famous for the Winter Olympics of 1936 and the more recent Kandahar World Cup Downhill Ski Race. In the first part of this series, you'll see how I took the Deutsche Bahn high-speed train from Hamburg down to Garmisch, transferring in Munich, checked into the Hotel Königshof, and went to rent my gear and pick up my lift ticket.
Here in Part 2, I finally get up on the mountain to see if I can still ski! Spoiler alert: I can... kind of. #garmisch #ski #travel
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I absolutely love these vlogs ♥️ If we wanted expert skiing, we can watch the Olympics! You give us the feeling that we’re right there with you 🤗
This was breathtaking! The views were beautiful! Thank you for sharing this wonderful video!
I love this video and your "raw" comments you made when skied. As an intermediate skier, I enjoyed every bit of it.
Absolutely stunning scenery.
This video is incredible. I miss skiing so much and probably won't ever go again so this was so nice to live vicariously through you. Thank you so much for filming and sharing.
Phenomenal! The mountains were beautiful. I totally salute your ability to do such an athletic activity. I'll never be on a mountain like that, so this is so fulfilling to see it from this perspective. Thanks, Morgan!
That was amazing. I so miss skiing, it is something I wont be able to do any more. Just watching you was truly a joy. Thank you so much. Looking forward to your next video.
Beautiful scenery!! I'm not a skier but would love to be able to enjoy those views - THANKS!!!
Captain Morgan - You look great shwoop shwoop shwooping down the slopes! Great vistas from above! I absolutely love those 6 min. it gave me the feeling of skiing!
But you are right, these are tough times for those businesses and they are suffering; we must do all we can do to support them.
I'll bet that lunch of Kasesspatzle and later the beer must have been awesome! Looking forward to the next episode!
Nice comment friend, how are you doing today weekend?
Yes...skiing vlog popped up for my selection.
Never was a skier, but I did visit Garmisch Partnekirhen and the Zugspitze our senior year. Nice village and you're right - the views from the top were amazing.
Your making me remember my time skiing. I'm thoroughly enjoying this
Don't worry about speed! It's the slow blue and red Piste Skiers that can enjoy the Scenery and use the Holidays as intended!
That’s my kind of skiing too. Slow steady at my own pace. Beautiful scenery!! I’m looking forward to the next video. Cheers!
I loved this vlog! What a beautiful place to vacation. Those views were majestic and spectacular. Thanks for sharing your adventure.
Hello friend, how are you doing today?
Look forward to next video. I wish I was there now . Very envious .25 years since I’ve been on a slope . Keep it up Morgan . Regards Glen
Wow wow wow! The views are beautiful and you did an awesome job skying and filmint!
Fantastic views. Thank you for sharing….have a wonderful cruise…!
I’ve never been skiing… this video makes want to give it a shot.
Great video! I can't ski and this was an opportunity to experience it through you. All the lifts and tunnels and views are incredible. Can't wait for the next skiing video!
I always wanted to ski. Thanks for taking me Long.
Stunning scenery
Good evening friend, how are you doing today?
THAT WAS AMAZING . Thank you so so much. I have never been to Germany but hopefully one day . I am sooo ready to travel
Good day friend, how are you doing today?
So beautiful!
Ahhh it's sooo beautiful!! Thank you for sharing your experience with such a lovely vlog. The food looked delicious too! Sorry to hear Garmisch is struggling so much with restaurants closing. I hope the tourism picks up again.
I enjoyed this vlog! Thank you!
Thank you so much for sharing this. The views are absolutely incredible!!!
Lol…. You: I don’t need to ski where the wrong move feels like danger. The next clip lots of danger. You one brace person. Great vlog
It's gorgeous out there. I'm a Florida girl and have never even seen snow. Definitely have never skied but it looks fun...and scary!
That was soooo neat to go skiing with you! I too Really prefer the slower "cross country" paths. 👌
AMAZING SCENERY!!!
This was fantastic. I could watch this type of skiing POV for an hour, although maybe not sped up. It's meditating by looking outside, not within. And the scenery! Very little is more beautiful than snow-covered mountains.
The view of the beautiful mountain with the clouds below you was fantastic!
Beautiful scenery up on the mountain! Makes me sad that I never learned how to ski!
Hi
Catching up on your videos after a busy last few weeks and this was amazing! Looks beautiful but also a bit scary- lol! I've never gone skiing before so I guess that makes sense. Props to you for getting out there and doing it after a good while.
Wauw the views are amazing. 🥰 Your friend can sure ski down the slopes 😜
The Gondola oh my the hight 😱. ( not for me ) view was breathtaking .
Morgan, I loved skiing with you. Being above the clouds was amazing: the views breathtaking. Looking forward to our next run! 👍⛷😀
Wow!!! No I want to go skiing right now! Same for me, don't need the "danger"factor anymore😉
I felt like I was skiing! Thanks for the awesome point of views!
I've only skied in Colorado. That area looks so amazing! Thanks so much for sharing!!
Those views are so amazing! I don’t ski but I’d learn to for that view! Wonderful video Morgan! Thank you! ⛷🗻👍
Good day friend, how are you doing today?
Just like skiing in Minnesota 😉
Mmmmm, yaaaaaa, riiiiight ;-)
That was amazing Morgan! Beautiful & awsome! Your friend is a real good skier... I haven't skied in about 35 years, bad knees, but it was fun while I did it...
Good evening friend, how are you doing today?
Bier Garten-now that’s where I’ll be hanging out all day watching everyone else ski!
Good form dear.
Beautiful and fun to watch. Only skied once it was fun but I wasn't good and never liked the cold all that much.
Ready to watch the Olympics now.
Hi friend, how are you doing today?
That blue route looked rally fun. Easy with just a small chance of instant death.
Due to motion sickness sensitivity, I couldn’t watch the hyper speed portions, but I enjoyed the rest. The path with the drop-off to the side where you said you liked the pace had me laughing a bit because I’ve been on some mountain roads in a pickup truck that just drop off to the side and have no guardrail. It can be freaky, but sometimes you just have to shut up and ride.
Absolutely gorgeous scenery. Not a skier but I sure appreciate the view.
Good day friend, hope you are having a wonderful evening over there, hope you don’t mind texting you?
The scenery was amazing! It made cycling on my stationary bike (aka Torture Unit 2) so much more enjoyable! I managed just over 13km! I only have 25km left to go on Côte d’Azur conqueror challenge ☺️
13KM is great! Go, Andrea!
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I’ve never been skiing but I’d really love to try it. Trouble is now if I fell I’d probably really hurt myself.
How long does it take you to ski from top to finish? What is the distance? Great video!!!!!
Hi friend
You got skills my man! To ski in Europe is a dream of mine. I mainly ski the east coast (aka the ice coast) of the United States.
Well come on over! Garmisch is really easy to get to from Munich. Fly into Munich, go to the mountains for a few days, then spend the rest of the time in Munich!
@@VeryunOfficialTravelGuides Someday my friend! I just have to talk the wife into going. Do they have indoor activities for kids around there? When I ski in Pennsylvania there is a indoor water park where I drop my family off.
There is an indoor swimming pool with a small kid's area, but I don't think they could spend an entire day there and not get bored. Sorry!
These videos were so very helpful for me to get a sense of the complicated ski areas of garmisch. Thanks a lot for labelling the trails because that helped me see them on the map. I still have a couple of questions:
1. I couldn't tell if you went up to Osterfelderkopf at 2057m? It seems connected to kreuzoch a 1719m which you went up via Kandahar lift. But i am not sure if one has to go all the way down to take Alpspitzebahn for Osterfelderkopf.
2. Is it possible to go up to kreuzoch without taking the Kandahar lift? Or is there an all Easy way to get to the Kandhahar lift. I am assuming that's where you fell and i just wanted to avoid a fall 😅.
3. Any idea about the difference between the snow card that you bought and a 2 day ski pass?
4. How did you find zugspitze ski area compared to garmisch classic? More natural snow, less icy ?
Sorry for so many questions. I am a little anxious about my upcoming trip and i fell a lot last time i skied the glacier in Austria mainly because the difficulty level wasn't marked accurately or their standards are very very different.
Well, I can't promise you what the weather will be like or if you will fall or not ;-) But I can answer some of your questions.
1. Osterfelderkopf is where I started my "skiing from the top to the bottom" adventure. Check out this video for what that was like: th-cam.com/video/EEWg3i8ywGE/w-d-xo.html
2. I don't believe you can. I fell many times during those 3 days, but the one that is included in this video was down at the boarding area of Kandahar, yes.
3. No, sorry. Not sure about that. But what I can tell you when you are looking at the passes is: it is not practical to ski up on the glacier AND down in the "Classic" area in one day. They are not connected and the actual time it takes to get from one to the other takes a big chunk out of the day.
4. That really depends on the weather! If it's cold up there, it will be icy. If it's warm, it will not be icy. There is definitely a wider variety of easier runs down in the Classic area.
I hope this helps!
@@VeryunOfficialTravelGuides thank you! Well done skiing down all the way from osterfelderkopf in such low visibility. And a very bold decision to start your adventure there given that the trails were red in the beginning and you were skiing after a long break. I do the easy ones first to warm up. the one time I went up without warming up was in stubai glacier, and that did not go well at all!! I was exhausted and in in pain. So I would have to start at the blues/easy up the Hausbergbahn.
It seems like if I go up the Hausbergbahn to warm up and want to go up the other peaks of classic area by skipping the Kandahar and any red trails, I'd need to take the Hausbergbahn down, board the train till the next station and then take kreuzekbahn or alpspitzebahn. Its hard to tell the direction of trails without any arrows (park city mountain had arrows ). So the mountain seems it is not connected from the top. Hmmmm seems odd to me though that they are not connected. I will find out when I get there and hopefully the weather is good for 2 out of 3 days 😉.
The red doesn't look very challenging in your videos and I am tempted to start with the red (because I have already done intermediate runs this season so i am kind of ski ready) but it could be the camera angle or something. I will stick to easy because all mountains rate their slopes different. Thanks!!
I wasn't going to ski both areas the same day. I am contemplating starting at the zugspitze, especially if it's sunny, because that also has lots of blues/easy trails. Should grab the opportunity to get the views if it comes down to it.
@@VeryunOfficialTravelGuides came here to thank you for the detailed video about the 2 ski areas. There was still a lot of confusion about where exactly to take the train and where to rent skis etc. but your videos were very helpful in taking care of the rest of confusion. One of the things that was especially helpful was mentioning the Cable car going down to Austria. I would have definitely walked right into it had I not heard you say that. 😆
I did ski both areas on the same day. I loved Zugspitze so much because of all natural snow that I went there again. But the second time was on a cloudy day which turned into a whiteout by 12.50 pm. Since it did not feel safe with zero visibility, I decided to ski the Classic for a couple of hours from about 1.50 pm. I took the first train of the day, and use the cable car to go up to maximize time.
And about the cost of skiing in Colorado, well i think it is absolutely unaffordable for most people unless they have season passes. I checked early season and the tickets were going for about 500. It is insane there. Utah at under 300 usd seemed less expensive but they had only 25% trails open due to limited snowfall. Didn't feel worth the cost really. In the North East the tickets are under 200 usd for bigger resorts, although i doubt if any resort compares in size or height to the ones in Utah/Colorado.
Europe that too these amazing glaciers and top of the line infrastructure seems like better experience overall, unless the cost of getting there is a factor.
Someone I saw recently posted a video saying it is the same price to literally fly to Europe and go skiing for a week than it is to ski for one weekend in Colorado!
@@VeryunOfficialTravelGuides I just did a rough math and I think that actually make sense. I will look into this closely when planning a ski trip next year but I am hopeful that Europe would come out to be better.
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Thanks for watching, Luis. Do you like to ski or snowboard?
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Oh my gosh a sauna in the hotel? Wonderful!!! And I'm glad you went out and tried to patronize some local restaurants. ❤️❤️I'm not a skiier at all, but I'm thrilled you had so much fun! ⛷️(On a ski trip I'm the one who hangs back at the cabin and makes sure there's chili, cocoa, and cocktails ready for all the adventurers. LOL)