It's been a while since I have taken these sunrise photos after an early morning hike to the summit of the mountain Hochstadel in Autumn 2019. It was completely dark when I started my hike, but later I have had a beautiful view down the foggy Drautal valley towards the rising sun in the east.
I have grown up in a very small village at the foot of this mountain where I have spent most of my summers when I was a boy. Actually, the mountain Hochstadel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hochstadel) consists of 4 mountains which you can see in the panorama photo below: beginning on the left side you can see the Rosengarten (2,202 m), the Hochstadel (2,681 m), the Rudnigkofel (2,283 m) and the Wiesenspitz (2,074 m) on the right side (one meter is about 3.28 feet ;).
A couple of weeks ago I've visited my parents and took a few shots of the snow capped mountain. Who wouldn't want to go skiing up there? But it's a long hike up, especially in wintertime.
It was a very nice morning and I have had the whole mountain for myself. The first other hikers showed up when I was half way back down, so the sun rose exclusively for me alone that morning ;)
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The white banana shaped field to the left is the lake Weißensee covered by a thick layer of fog above the misty Drautal valley.
My hometown Oberdrauburg lays down there and is divided by the Drau river. The little village where I have grown up is on the lower right close to the forest.
Back in the valley I took the above photo of the mountain which you can compare to the snowy mountain in the following images which I took a few weeks ago.
Well, that's all for today's post and I hope you enjoyed the views I miss most from my childhood.