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Zugspitze, Ascension
2026 February 14
Current Mood: ruminating on electronic music I was listening to in early 2010s
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During our trip to München we had a chance to visit the Alps and to ascent to one of the mountain peaks. Turns out, there's a whole transport infrastructure built around Zugspitze at the German-Austrian border, and one can easily get there from München central train station on a regional train to Garmisch-Partenkirchen. The one hour and a half trip to Garmisch-Partenkirchen was already very picturesque with big mountains and beautiful lakes already on the route, but then riding to the Zugspitze plateau on a cog train from 700m to 2500m elevation was even more impressive.

We got lucky with the weather: at first, I got nervous when on the way to Garmisch-Partenkirchen we entered a very thick fog area for a short time, but when we arrived to the mountain the visibility was as good as we could hope for with the overcast weather that day.

There were also very few tourists / skiers / snowboarders going up with us, probably because it was the middle of one of the work days.

This post is dedicated to this ascension part of our trip and several photos were taken through train windows. Next post will feature photos from the plateau and the peak, and the last post will have photos from our descent to Lake Eibsee.


A photo of a foggy winter field with dry yellow grass and a wooden fence, taken through the train window.
Fujifilm X-E1 7artisans 35 mm/F1.4 APS-C

A photo of a winter field with dry yellow grass and high snowy mountains and grey sky in the background, taken through the train window.
Fujifilm X-E1 7artisans 35 mm/F1.4 APS-C

A photo of a train station platform with low town buildings behind it, an orange excavator, and a high snowy mountain in the background.
Fujifilm X-E1 7artisans 35 mm/F1.4 APS-C

A photo of a big lake among snowy mountains and pine forests, completely covered with snow and ice, shot from a big height.
Fujifilm X-E1 7artisans 35 mm/F1.4 APS-C

A photo of the inside of the cogtrain car lit with pale yellow lights while moving through a tunnel, most of the seats are empty.
Fujifilm X-E1 7artisans 35 mm/F1.4 APS-C

A photo of a white and blue cogtrain car from the outside, while it's staying in a tunnel at it's last stop.
Fujifilm X-E1 7artisans 35 mm/F1.4 APS-C

A photo of the second cogtrain car focused on its open door, also featuring the tunnel station platform.
Fujifilm X-E1 7artisans 35 mm/F1.4 APS-C

A photo of the tunnel station window all parts of which have different hues (yellow, gray, blue) with snowy peaks of the Alps visible through it.
Fujifilm X-E1 7artisans 35 mm/F1.4 APS-C


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