1/🧵 The Alps offer a lot to adventurous travelers, including several lakes where you can dip between hiking or biking. Zeller See, or Lake Zell, is not the largest but still attracts crowds.
1/🧵 The Alps offer a lot to adventurous travelers, including several lakes where you can dip between hiking or biking. Zeller See, or Lake Zell, is not the largest but still attracts crowds.
2/🧵 It is nestled right between popular skiing and biking resorts and has marvelous surroundings. Grossglockner, the highest peak in Austria, is just a stone's throw away—some 30 kilometers—and you can spot its summit topped with a glacier in some of my shots.
3/🧵 Speaking of the glacier, you might have guessed the lake is of glacial origin; it is relatively young from a geological perspective, only about 10-15 thousand years old. It was created by a minor glacier that melted towards the end of the last ice age.
4/🧵 My most recent post takes you around the lake, points out the best place to take a dip, and then showcases the Alpen architecture of the town of Zell am See. Read more: https://inleo.io/@godfish/arachne-weaver-gda?referral=godfish