At 17:43, you are standing in front of my house, 2353 Sioli Strasse, from 1978 until the plumbing blew in 1984 or so and we moved to the house behind it. Tree roots destroyed the plumbing under the house. My Dad was civilian, SES-4, Chief of Engineering for the Corps of Engineers, Europe. I loved living by the high school. All of my friends would come over for lunch and we would watch Phil Donahue on AFN at lunch. I DJ'd a lot of the high school dances and I just walked my equipment across the street to the gym, with a lot of help of great friends, of course!! Great memories in that house. Thanks for the footage!!
Dag! Wish I was part of your popular crowd…I don’t even know if I even knew there was officers housing that close behind school. I only remember a park behind the building that I heard kids got their hash from…was it really just you running a risky business at lunch?!! I ate lunch at Harmony House…I was wondering what it looks like across parking lot from school toward what was the engineering building…harmony house and the church were there.
Frankfurt is such a lovely city...It is not huge like NYC, Paris, etc. But it has personality... Thanks for the tour...I have spent many years in Frankfurt and surroundings since 1975. I consider it my second home base (first is Minnesota)... Of course, why stop at two? In these last chapters of my life, my plan is to add one or more two home bases... This base is one of the best...Super job with this video...Thanks so much! 👍😎👍
Heading to Frankfurt in fewer than twenty days for a much needed vacation. Was stationed there as a kid with my family from 1981 to 1995. This is getting me ready for my trip!
My father managed the Ambassador Arms on weekends, ca 1963. We were stationed in Frankfurt from 1960-64.( He ran the stockade over at Gutleut Kaserne, for his 'day job'.) My friends (we went to Frankfurt Elementary #1) and I would get dropped at the Idle Hour theater, and then after the movie walk over to the Ambassador, where my dad would sit us down in the kitchen and order us hamburgers. My mom worked in the IG Farben building, btw. Before the Ambassador, my father worked weekends managing the NCO club--the Top Hat, I think it was called, over by the PX--which was like a full on nightclub, with slot machines, a stage and a dance floor. He took these weekend 'moonlighting' jobs as my older sisters ( both FAHS grads) were stateside at private universities and tuition wasn't cheap. Some sweet memories here. Interesting to see how it all has changed. Thanks for shooting and posting this!
Thank you so much for sharing your memories about these places. I just finished a video of Gutleut Kasern and it will be posted in a day or 2. There is a video of the IG Farben building too. Top Hat was the name of the NCO club. Do you ever come back for a visit?
So many tears watching this video. So many memories. The empty lot across from the old football field at FAHS used to be the Ambassador Arms temporary housing. There was a dining/ mess hall on the other side of that building (looks like that's where they put those new buildings). The walk to FAHS from the U-Bahn station was a huge trip down memory lane for me. I'd nudge my husband and say things like, "they used to have vendors selling random crap there!" also a *second* before you said it. lol. I had to take an S and then an U-bahn to FAHS every day. Those concrete walls on the other side of the street used to be filled with graffiti. I was there during Operation Desert Storm, and I remember someone had sprayed "America Get Your Bloody Hands Off Of Iraq" on one of those walls. They closed off the side gate, and we had to go through the main Abrams gate to have our backpacks and IDs checked. This video meant so much to me. THANK YOU for sharing it.
Thanks for the great stroll down memory lane! The houses were behind the Ambassador Arms (temporary quarters), long since torn down. The houses were O-6 housing (I'm not sure if any General officers lived there, but definitely O-6's did). I learned my first guitar chords in the second house on that back row you passed, from a Colonel's son that was in my Boy Scout Troop! Spent many hours there learning how to play G-L-O-R-I-A and Hang on Sloopy! lol. I lived in Hicog from 62-69. Dad was a pilot for the FAA out at Rhein-Main. I must have walked those streets between the German apartments to Hicog a thousand times! Great memories!
You are correct Wailer. I went to a party or two in ‘68 at one when the parents were out of town. 🤣 Also, the underground work where the videographer started was only about six months in process when we left in August of ‘68. I appreciate the tour! It has changed a lot over the years. Thank you!!! We lived in temp quarters at Platten the first six months in Frankfurt, then moved to Edwards. I was 14 - 17 years young in the 9th - 11th grades. I taught myself how to play the same songs on guitar. Starting with House of The Rising Sun. Still picking and grinning. If those old walls could talk…
I used to live in the officers’ housing at 17:00 minutes in 77-78 on Wismarer Str. My Dad was US Army V Corps Inspector General, office in the Abrams Building, rank of Colonel. Thanks so much for this.
What a blast from the past. I used to stop at the Trinkhalle there by the U-Bahn station to get candy when I was younger, and later when I was older to buy cigarettes, beer, and jagermeister.
Your video was indeed a walk down Memory Lane! Thank you!! I graduated from Frankfurt High School (‘78), where my father happened to be the principal (‘73-‘79). We watched the video together and he loved it too. Brought us both great memories of a special time. Fun to see what has changed, and what still resembles what we remember. Again, many thanks!
@@frankfurtonfoottours2361 Oh yes, I’m most definitely enjoying your other videos too! You have done a great job showcasing the city!! Makes me long for a return visit...one of these days! Do you ever get up to Platen housing? I lived near the elementary school there...would be fun to see how that neighborhood looks today!
@@markbloom8042 I will see what I can do. Getting lots of requests from people and it will take a while before I get to all of them. Thanks for watching!
Thank you for the tour. I was stationed at Drake Kaserne from 12/80 to 8/83. You provided a very detailed and much needed explanation after 40+ years. I didn’t recognize much!
Thank you for this video. Things have changed so much that I hardly recognize the place. I attended Frankfurt High School from 1955 to graduation in 1957. Toward the end of the '57 school year I lived in the dorm. My Dad was V Corps Transportation Officer and was transferred back to the States before school ended so I remained in Frankfurt to graduate with my class. Our graduation took place in the Casino. It looks like the dorm, library, Idle Hour Theater, and teen club are long gone.
So much is different after all these years. I can't quite recognize the direction you approached the school from so nothing looks terribly familiar. I think the shot at @12:45 is the school entrance that would have been nearest the auditorium and cafeteria. At @13:00 you are near the old main entrance of the school. The new entrance is where you tried to enter. That was a big parking lot in the 1970s where busses dropped off students. I often walked through the Hansaallee housing area on my way to school. I lived in Platenstrasse which was west of HICOG. At points it sounds like you are being stalked by Darth Vader! The TV tower opened in May or June 1979 and I did make it to the top once. I left Frankfurt four days after we graduated and didn't get to spend that final summer in Frankfurt with friends. I passed through the airport once in 2001 but didn't have enough time to go into town on my layover. Thanks for posting.
Thanks for the informative comments. They were doing some kind of loud construction that day when I walked past. Hope you can make it back here sometime.
All of the officers housing along Soliestraße has been torn down and is now vacant. So nice to see that they have chosen to leave the outside eagle and the inside mosaic intact. The movie theater, "Silver City" (temporary classrooms), Engineer Command building, and the "O" Club (Casino) all were between the high school and the I G Farben building (now Goethe Univ. I guess.)
Thank you for the tour. Except for the school ,everything around it is very different. I graduated from FAHS in 1958 being an Army brat with my father stationed first in Giessen and then in Babenhausen, where I met my wife of 62 years, and now retired in Massachusetts. At the time I did not appreciate the good education I was given there. Thank you my teachers, especially Mr. Wilbur, chemistry.
I was stationed in the 109th MP Company, located on the corner of Hannnsaalle and Miguelalle. We had several barracks and admin buildings that were located at the intersection of those two streets, no more than a block or tw from Gruneberg Park. In fact, we used to occasionally do unit runs inside this park.
Hi, thanks! Danke. Yes, the houses on Siolistrasse and others near the high school were for Generals and full Colonels. In the 70s, there was also a BOQ back in there (the Ambassador Arms), where we stayed for a week or so before getting our quarters. This is also the area where just a few years ago they found that huge WW2 bomb they had to defuse, evacuating 600,000 people. Just to think we all were at incredible risk for all those years and we didn't know we were sitting right on top of a bomb while we were at FHS!
Thanks for the info about the housese. They only evacuated 60,000 for that bomb. The bomb is now sitting in the Frankfurt Historical Museum if you want to go see it. Held 1200kg. TNT.
I lived at the Ambassador Arms for 3 months. Lots of soldiers lived there, awaiting the arrival of their families. Once housing became available, you left the Ambassador Arms for whatever housing unit you were assigned. I wound up living in Platen Housing area. Great p[lace. Loved it
Thank you so much for sharing and reminds me during my younger years. I used to work at star and stripes bookstore next to PX. There is a burger king, pizza parlour, toppers club, the commisary and upstairs is the bank. I had a partime job as a cartpusher in the commisary my supervisor is fassil and mike. Ive got lots of friends there as well john, sef, steve,and there father name is tino, mike pines, kenny, tito, tasha and many more. Our baggers are mostly korean ladies married to serviceman like sun, unyok etc. And the guy that giving us our military installation pass is noel cerpedes
I worked at the PX in the fall of 89 and would spend my lunches playing Cabal and Ultimate Tiger that were next to Burger King. Then in 90 I worked in the AAFES Shopette in the IG Farben building. Lots of fun riding the Padernoster Elevators there.
Hello, is there any way you could visit the old Atterberry Elementary and also Old Edwards/New Edwards? Thank you so much for taking the time to make this video. XO I can't believe that Trinkhalle is gone!
Will give it a try soon. Am having some leg issues right now, so not able to go out and film like I really want to. I don't believe anything is left of Atterberry at all.
@@frankfurtonfoottours2361 I hope that your leg troubles mend quickly. I lived in Frankfurt from 86-88 in Old Edwards and went to Atterberry for 4th and 5th grade. My dad was then stationed in Mannheim and we lived there till 1990. Sad about Atterberry. SO many memories. I hope you feel better and Danke Schon again for taking the time to do this. XO
I was a dorm student there 79-80. I graduated in 1980. Can you possibly take film of the dorm building in the back? I lived in Fulda and rode the bus 2 hrs. to school.
I am not sure where this dorm building would be. Many buildings in this area have been torn down and been replaced. Almost all of Abrams has now been torn down except for the High School and the officer's houses.
You mentioned something about filming an area that you could film for us. I was assigned to the Farben building in 69 and at that time there was a park called shit park near the Opera house with a large pond. Think you could film that area for us? Just curious if it is still there.
This park is the Wallanlage and I have a video of this. The park surrounds the inner city and is where the Wall used to be in the middle ages. Look on the playlist under Inner CIty or Parks.
Wow the memories I left in August 94 while everyone was moving to Heidelberg you forgot about the world famous Topper Club and the good Popeyes Chicken at 3pm in the morning on club night Vcorps finest 2368 HansaAlle stand up ❤
Yes in the middle of the parking lot in front of Chi Chis and across from the PX and the food court I worked in the Abrahms building with those famous open elevator doors good times just the whole feel of Frankfurt was great and I'll always remember my 2 1/2 years there
Yes, I remember the Trinkhalle, run by a Greek guy. I bought Ouzo there just before we went on Adventure Training in Garmisch, brought on a hike up to the top of the Altspitze, on the border with Austria and drank it there! We stayed overnight in Meiler Hütte, hiked down a bit to go rock climbing and rappelling! Then Whitewater rafting on the Inn river the next day. One of the best times ever!
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At 17:43, you are standing in front of my house, 2353 Sioli Strasse, from 1978 until the plumbing blew in 1984 or so and we moved to the house behind it. Tree roots destroyed the plumbing under the house. My Dad was civilian, SES-4, Chief of Engineering for the Corps of Engineers, Europe. I loved living by the high school. All of my friends would come over for lunch and we would watch Phil Donahue on AFN at lunch. I DJ'd a lot of the high school dances and I just walked my equipment across the street to the gym, with a lot of help of great friends, of course!! Great memories in that house. Thanks for the footage!!
Dag! Wish I was part of your popular crowd…I don’t even know if I even knew there was officers housing that close behind school. I only remember a park behind the building that I heard kids got their hash from…was it really just you running a risky business at lunch?!! I ate lunch at Harmony House…I was wondering what it looks like across parking lot from school toward what was the engineering building…harmony house and the church were there.
Frankfurt is such a lovely city...It is not huge like NYC, Paris, etc. But it has personality...
Thanks for the tour...I have spent many years in Frankfurt and surroundings since 1975.
I consider it my second home base (first is Minnesota)...
Of course, why stop at two? In these last chapters of my life, my plan is to add one or more two home bases...
This base is one of the best...Super job with this video...Thanks so much!
👍😎👍
So glad you enjoyed it.
Heading to Frankfurt in fewer than twenty days for a much needed vacation. Was stationed there as a kid with my family from 1981 to 1995. This is getting me ready for my trip!
We will welcome you back for your vacation. The city has changed a lot since 1995.
My father managed the Ambassador Arms on weekends, ca 1963. We were stationed in Frankfurt from 1960-64.( He ran the stockade over at Gutleut Kaserne, for his 'day job'.)
My friends (we went to Frankfurt Elementary #1) and I would get dropped at the Idle Hour theater, and then after the movie walk over to the Ambassador, where my dad would sit us down in the kitchen and order us hamburgers.
My mom worked in the IG Farben building, btw.
Before the Ambassador, my father worked weekends managing the NCO club--the Top Hat, I think it was called, over by the PX--which was like a full on nightclub, with slot machines, a stage and a dance floor.
He took these weekend 'moonlighting' jobs as my older sisters ( both FAHS grads) were stateside at private universities and tuition wasn't cheap.
Some sweet memories here. Interesting to see how it all has changed. Thanks for shooting and posting this!
Thank you so much for sharing your memories about these places. I just finished a video of Gutleut Kasern and it will be posted in a day or 2. There is a video of the IG Farben building too. Top Hat was the name of the NCO club. Do you ever come back for a visit?
So many tears watching this video. So many memories.
The empty lot across from the old football field at FAHS used to be the Ambassador Arms temporary housing. There was a dining/ mess hall on the other side of that building (looks like that's where they put those new buildings).
The walk to FAHS from the U-Bahn station was a huge trip down memory lane for me. I'd nudge my husband and say things like, "they used to have vendors selling random crap there!" also a *second* before you said it. lol.
I had to take an S and then an U-bahn to FAHS every day. Those concrete walls on the other side of the street used to be filled with graffiti. I was there during Operation Desert Storm, and I remember someone had sprayed "America Get Your Bloody Hands Off Of Iraq" on one of those walls. They closed off the side gate, and we had to go through the main Abrams gate to have our backpacks and IDs checked.
This video meant so much to me. THANK YOU for sharing it.
I am so glad you enjoyed seeing it. Thanks for the comments. Did you see the video of the IG Farben building?
Thanks for the great stroll down memory lane! The houses were behind the Ambassador Arms (temporary quarters), long since torn down. The houses were O-6 housing (I'm not sure if any General officers lived there, but definitely O-6's did). I learned my first guitar chords in the second house on that back row you passed, from a Colonel's son that was in my Boy Scout Troop! Spent many hours there learning how to play G-L-O-R-I-A and Hang on Sloopy! lol. I lived in Hicog from 62-69. Dad was a pilot for the FAA out at Rhein-Main. I must have walked those streets between the German apartments to Hicog a thousand times! Great memories!
Wow, thanks for the great info. I will see if it is ok to film over in Hicog, they may not allow it.
You are correct Wailer. I went to a party or two in ‘68 at one when the parents were out of town. 🤣
Also, the underground work where the videographer started was only about six months in process when we left in August of ‘68.
I appreciate the tour! It has changed a lot over the years. Thank you!!!
We lived in temp quarters at Platten the first six months in Frankfurt, then moved to Edwards. I was 14 - 17 years young in the 9th - 11th grades.
I taught myself how to play the same songs on guitar. Starting with House of The Rising Sun. Still picking and grinning.
If those old walls could talk…
I used to live in the officers’ housing at 17:00 minutes in 77-78 on Wismarer Str. My Dad was US Army V Corps Inspector General, office in the Abrams Building, rank of Colonel. Thanks so much for this.
Oh, glad you got to see your home and thanks for the info about the ranks of the officers who lived in these homes.
What a blast from the past. I used to stop at the Trinkhalle there by the U-Bahn station to get candy when I was younger, and later when I was older to buy cigarettes, beer, and jagermeister.
Thanks for sharing your memories. The Trinkhalle is gone now.
We live in #2 and my father was a Colonel. Good memories. Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed them.
Thank you so much for the tour! I was stationed in Frankfurt 1972 - 1975 at the V- Corps headquarters, in the I G Garden building.
Have you seen the video we have about the I.G. Farben building, which is today the Goethe University?
Your video was indeed a walk down Memory Lane! Thank you!! I graduated from Frankfurt High School (‘78), where my father happened to be the principal (‘73-‘79). We watched the video together and he loved it too. Brought us both great memories of a special time. Fun to see what has changed, and what still resembles what we remember. Again, many thanks!
So glad you enjoyed it together with your dad. Hope you like the rest of the videos showing Frankfurt that may hold some memories for you too?
@@frankfurtonfoottours2361 Oh yes, I’m most definitely enjoying your other videos too! You have done a great job showcasing the city!! Makes me long for a return visit...one of these days! Do you ever get up to Platen housing? I lived near the elementary school there...would be fun to see how that neighborhood looks today!
@@markbloom8042 I will see what I can do. Getting lots of requests from people and it will take a while before I get to all of them. Thanks for watching!
Thank you for the tour. I was stationed at Drake Kaserne from 12/80 to 8/83. You provided a very detailed and much needed explanation after 40+ years. I didn’t recognize much!
Frankfurt is a city of change, always in flux. Amazed sometimes at what is still here though.
Thank you for this video. Things have changed so much that I hardly recognize the place. I attended Frankfurt High School from 1955 to graduation in 1957. Toward the end of the '57 school year I lived in the dorm. My Dad was V Corps Transportation Officer and was transferred back to the States before school ended so I remained in Frankfurt to graduate with my class. Our graduation took place in the Casino. It looks like the dorm, library, Idle Hour Theater, and teen club are long gone.
Wow, it must be so different from the 1950s. Yes, all of those buildings are gone as far as I know.
Cool! Thank you so much!
Thanks, it was my pleasure.
So much is different after all these years. I can't quite recognize the direction you approached the school from so nothing looks terribly familiar. I think the shot at @12:45 is the school entrance that would have been nearest the auditorium and cafeteria. At @13:00 you are near the old main entrance of the school. The new entrance is where you tried to enter. That was a big parking lot in the 1970s where busses dropped off students. I often walked through the Hansaallee housing area on my way to school. I lived in Platenstrasse which was west of HICOG. At points it sounds like you are being stalked by Darth Vader!
The TV tower opened in May or June 1979 and I did make it to the top once. I left Frankfurt four days after we graduated and didn't get to spend that final summer in Frankfurt with friends.
I passed through the airport once in 2001 but didn't have enough time to go into town on my layover.
Thanks for posting.
Thanks for the informative comments. They were doing some kind of loud construction that day when I walked past. Hope you can make it back here sometime.
great video. thanks for taking us down memory lane. I so love they've kept our mosiacs. sounds like Smaug is lurking around at the end!
Glad you like it. I was happy to see the mosaic too.
Ha! I was telling my husband "it sounds like she's being stalked by a dragon!" lol
@@JenniferLoizeaux Massive amounts of construction happening here.
All of the officers housing along Soliestraße has been torn down and is now vacant. So nice to see that they have chosen to leave the outside eagle and the inside mosaic intact. The movie theater, "Silver City" (temporary classrooms), Engineer Command building, and the "O" Club (Casino) all were between the high school and the I G Farben building (now Goethe Univ. I guess.)
The houses are there though, as the video shows as we walk past them.
I lived on Wismarer Strasse-my house is gone, replaced by that new house. Sigh...thank you for trip down memory lane.
Thanks for watching and commenting.
Thank you for the tour. Except for the school ,everything around it is very different. I graduated from FAHS in 1958 being an Army brat with my father stationed first in Giessen and then in Babenhausen, where I met my wife of 62 years, and now retired in Massachusetts. At the time I did not appreciate the good education I was given there. Thank you my teachers, especially Mr. Wilbur, chemistry.
Thanks for sharing your memories. If you are on FB, there is an alumni group from FAHS.
I was stationed in the 109th MP Company, located on the corner of Hannnsaalle and Miguelalle. We had several barracks and admin buildings that were located at the intersection of those two streets, no more than a block or tw from Gruneberg Park. In fact, we used to occasionally do unit runs inside this park.
Most of these buildings are now gone and replaced with new ones.
Hi, thanks! Danke. Yes, the houses on Siolistrasse and others near the high school were for Generals and full Colonels. In the 70s, there was also a BOQ back in there (the Ambassador Arms), where we stayed for a week or so before getting our quarters. This is also the area where just a few years ago they found that huge WW2 bomb they had to defuse, evacuating 600,000 people. Just to think we all were at incredible risk for all those years and we didn't know we were sitting right on top of a bomb while we were at FHS!
Thanks for the info about the housese. They only evacuated 60,000 for that bomb. The bomb is now sitting in the Frankfurt Historical Museum if you want to go see it. Held 1200kg. TNT.
I lived at the Ambassador Arms for 3 months. Lots of soldiers lived there, awaiting the arrival of their families. Once housing became available, you left the Ambassador Arms for whatever housing unit you were assigned. I wound up living in Platen Housing area. Great p[lace. Loved it
Fantastic video. Thanks so much. A great walk down memory lane for those of us that spent time in the Frankfurt Military Community
Thank you, am glad to be able to show your old homes.
Thank you so much for sharing and reminds me during my younger years. I used to work at star and stripes bookstore next to PX. There is a burger king, pizza parlour, toppers club, the commisary and upstairs is the bank. I had a partime job as a cartpusher in the commisary my supervisor is fassil and mike. Ive got lots of friends there as well john, sef, steve,and there father name is tino, mike pines, kenny, tito, tasha and many more. Our baggers are mostly korean ladies married to serviceman like sun, unyok etc. And the guy that giving us our military installation pass is noel cerpedes
Thanks for sharing the memories. All of that is gone now, of course.
I worked at the PX in the fall of 89 and would spend my lunches playing Cabal and Ultimate Tiger that were next to Burger King. Then in 90 I worked in the AAFES Shopette in the IG Farben building. Lots of fun riding the Padernoster Elevators there.
thank you very nice.
So glad you enjoyed it.
Hello, is there any way you could visit the old Atterberry Elementary and also Old Edwards/New Edwards? Thank you so much for taking the time to make this video. XO I can't believe that Trinkhalle is gone!
Will give it a try soon. Am having some leg issues right now, so not able to go out and film like I really want to. I don't believe anything is left of Atterberry at all.
@@frankfurtonfoottours2361 I hope that your leg troubles mend quickly. I lived in Frankfurt from 86-88 in Old Edwards and went to Atterberry for 4th and 5th grade. My dad was then stationed in Mannheim and we lived there till 1990. Sad about Atterberry. SO many memories. I hope you feel better and Danke Schon again for taking the time to do this. XO
I was a dorm student there 79-80. I graduated in 1980. Can you possibly take film of the dorm building in the back? I lived in Fulda and rode the bus 2 hrs. to school.
I am not sure where this dorm building would be. Many buildings in this area have been torn down and been replaced. Almost all of Abrams has now been torn down except for the High School and the officer's houses.
I used to work at the Contracting Agency on that first corner. Those buildings were old in the 80s!
Lots of buildings built in the 50s and 60s around here.
You mentioned something about filming an area that you could film for us. I was assigned to the Farben building in 69 and at that time there was a park called shit park near the Opera house with a large pond. Think you could film that area for us? Just curious if it is still there.
This park is the Wallanlage and I have a video of this. The park surrounds the inner city and is where the Wall used to be in the middle ages. Look on the playlist under Inner CIty or Parks.
Wow, that school still looks the same. I was in the last wave of students that went to that school in 93. Has Gibbs housing area changed any?
There is a video about Gibbs, look on the playlist for American sites. Gibbs has changed completely.
Check the old Camp Eschborn, i walked through last year, the only thing left is a gym building
Wow the memories I left in August 94 while everyone was moving to Heidelberg you forgot about the world famous Topper Club and the good Popeyes Chicken at 3pm in the morning on club night Vcorps finest 2368 HansaAlle stand up ❤
I didn't think there was a Popeyes over there at the PX, but sometimes the memory fails me. Glad you got some good memories from the video.
Yes in the middle of the parking lot in front of Chi Chis and across from the PX and the food court I worked in the Abrahms building with those famous open elevator doors good times just the whole feel of Frankfurt was great and I'll always remember my 2 1/2 years there
That kiosk was the drank Halle. If I remember
Thanks for sharing memories.
Yes, I remember the Trinkhalle, run by a Greek guy. I bought Ouzo there just before we went on Adventure Training in Garmisch, brought on a hike up to the top of the Altspitze, on the border with Austria and drank it there!
We stayed overnight in Meiler Hütte, hiked down a bit to go rock climbing and rappelling!
Then Whitewater rafting on the Inn river the next day.
One of the best times ever!