This is the fifth time I have tried to post these pictures so I am getting close to giving up now!.
We decided to walk up the "Wilde Wasser" (Wild Water) walk which starts just down the hill from where we are staying and follows the river up stream to the next village. A beautiful walk with lots of waterfalls and rushing white water, trout in the pools and Dippers and Grey Wagtails all over the place.
All along the route where small streams joined the main river were little water driven machines like this one, sometimes just water wheels and other times they rang bells or drove hammers.
As the water was so clear and pure there were drinking stations like this one with little ceramic cups to drink the cold clear water.
As the valley opened out there were farms and house in typical Austrian style, lots of wood, balconies and flowers.
We stopped for lunch at the head of stage one with the valley still ahead of us and then came back via the Silver and Nickle trail back down into Schladming.
To say the views were stunning, well just take a look, what a back drop to be walking in and all along the way there were lupins, orchids and a host of alpine flowers, what it must look like in spring must be breathtaking. We saw at least 20 different sorts of butterflies.
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