Pictures of Austrian Alps

[Slomo]

We've just come back from a skiing holiday in Obertauern, Austria. We were very lucky with the weather as the temperature never went above 0 degree Centigrade and it snowed almost every night, while being sunny or just slightly cloudy during the day.

We stayed at the same hotel the Beatles stayed in while filming their second movie "Help" (nothing special - just a bit of trivia for you :) ), and my daughter came in 5th in the slalom at the end of her skiing class (5 out of 10 in a group of 8 boys and only 2 girls - she was also the youngest of the group ). Can you tell how proud daddy was?:) :tu

Anyway Obertauern is probably my favourite ski resort and on top of having the best snow stats of all the Austrina resorts it's only a 2 hours drive from my home.


Here are some pictures:

http://www.cikava.com/gallery/albums/Obertauern/Obertauern2006_01.jpg

http://www.cikava.com/gallery/albums/Obertauern/Obertauern2006_02.jpg

http://www.cikava.com/gallery/albums/Obertauern/Obertauern2006_03.jpg

http://www.cikava.com/gallery/albums/Obertauern/Obertauern2006_04.jpg

http://www.cikava.com/gallery/albums/Obertauern/Obertauern2006_05.jpg

From left to right: My sister, my nephew, my daughter and my wife.
http://www.cikava.com/gallery/albums/Obertauern/Obertauern2006_06.jpg

How about that 4x4!
http://www.cikava.com/gallery/albums/Obertauern/Ratrak_01.jpg

[SpursWoman]

I've already posted and taken credit for them on 28 different websites ... thanks for leaving off the watermark this time. :tu














Those are awesome pictures! :lol

[ShoogarBear]

Cool pics.

(insert generic N'Sync joke here)

EDIT: Damn, too late.

[Slomo]

I've already posted and taken credit for them on 28 different websites ... thanks for leaving off the watermark this time. :tu














Those are awesome pictures! :lol:lmao
I hope you hot linked them so I can go and replace them with some hard core bestiality pics :lol

[SpursWoman]

:lmao
I hope you hot linked them so I can go and replace them with some hard core bestiality pics :lol


What? You think I'm new? I saved and hosted them myself. :smokin

And I don't want to know where you got the hard core beastiality pics from. :wow :lmao

[Slomo]

And I don't want to know where you got the hard core beastiality pics from. :wow :lmaoWould you believe me if I told you from an N'sync forum? http://spurstalk.com/forums/images/smilies/smiangel.gif

[tlongII]

Beautiful scenery.

[spurs=bling]

Nice Pictures.

[Vashner]

We have not had a good snow here since 1985 :( 13 inches I think..

Sigh. Nice pics I wish I could check that out.

Edit lol: Man If had this pimp ride for Port A spring break I would get Laid 4 sure...
Edit 2: BTW You know who invented the tracked vehicle? Mr Holt... I think the Spurs owners grandfather or greatgrandad.
http://www.cikava.com/gallery/albums/Obertauern/Ratrak_01.jpg

[Slomo]

Edit 2: BTW You know who invented the tracked vehicle? Mr Holt... I think the Spurs owners grandfather or greatgrandad.I heard something about it but not that he was the actual inventor!

Nice piece of trivia!

Does it have anything to do with Holt being with Caterpilar?

[CharlieMac]

Man, those are great pics.

[Vashner]

Ah here is the whole story from wiki - he purchased the patent.

An effective caterpillar track was invented and implemented by Alvin Lombard, for the Lombard steam log hauler. He was granted a patent in 1901. He built the first steam-powered log hauler at the Waterville Iron Works in Waterville, Maine the same year. In all, eighty-three Lombard steam log haulers are known to have been built up to 1917 when production switched entirely to internal combustion engine powered machines ending with a Fairbanks diesel powered unit in 1934, yet undoubtedly Lombard was the first commercial manufacturer of the crawler tractor. In addition, there may have been up to twice as many Phoenix "Centipeed" versions of the steam log hauler built under license from Lombard, with vertical instead of horizontal cylinders. In 1903, the founder of the Holt Manufacturing, Benjamin Holt, paid Lombard $60,000 so they could produce vehicles under his patent. Their seems to have been an agreement made after Lombard travelled out to CA, but some discrepancy as to how this matter was resolved when previous track patents were studied. Popularly, everyone claimed to have been inspired by the "dog tread mill" once used on farms to power the butter churn, etc. to "invent" the crawler on their own, and the more recent the history, the earlier this date of "invention" seems to get.

[Old School Chic]

Nice pics... Thank you for sharing :spin

[JoeChalupa]

Awesome pics!!

[Oscar DeLa]

I don't know what it is but that looks like the mountain you climb to get to mr dios house