Here we are at the Zugspitze, the highest point in Germany. It's about 2,962m (about 10,000ft, so big whoop to those of us who've been to the Sierra Nevada, but still cool).
Quite a feat of German engineering though. It was super easy to get up there. Just take a cog wheel train up the mountain, then another ski lift-like tram to the peak. Beer, sausages and hot chocolate await you at the top. Now that's my kind of hiking. On the way down we decided to take the cable car. That was like being in a glass elevator--a vertical drop from the top. I had to keep my eyes on the horizon.
The border between Germany and Austria is also up on the Zugspitze, so you could easily walk into the Tirol region in Austria, as you can see from some of the pictures. It was interesting to be on the German side, where they just passed a law banning smoking indoors, then to walk to Austria; you could smell the tobacco even before you crossed the border. But at least it was warm inside!
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