Josh and Friends in Garmisch

My friend Josh from CO and three of his friends decided to make a stop in Garmisch before heading back to Italy for the rest of their trip. It was nice to have people my age at the house and showing people around Garmisch was fun as well so here is how their stop went and a few pictures.

Hollental Gorge

First day started with the plan that we were going to go on a relaxing bike ride around Garmisch but with one bike in need of a new tube we scrapped that plan and went on a hike that was suppose to be relaxing (sorry girls!). I miss judged how far it was up to the Hollental hutte through the gorge and it ended up being a lot longer and there were a few snow patches that my sister (wearing sandals) and I were not expecting. I think everyone loved the gorge itself but the hike got a little extensive. It was a good wake up anyways though!

The second day of their trip we walked through the haupstrasse in
the center of town checking out shops along the way and a small
farmers market that was just starting to close up as we got there.
After an hour or so on the hauptstrasse we continued over to the ski stadium to see where the Olympics were held and to hit up the luge run which is always a good time.  We kept on going into the Partenkirchen old city after the luge to see the old roman road that goes straight through the city and to check out some shops. On our way back to Garmisch I caught the train home to get my bike before heading to work leaving my sister and the group to walk into Garmisch.

At the Ski Stadium

I had work until 2400 and kept getting text messages throughout the night letting me know which bar the group was headed which was kinda scary because my sister was the one showing everyone the bars and she is not the best at directions but in the end it all worked out when we met on the hauptstrasse and headed into peaches around 1230. Three jagermeister- red bulls, a little dancing, and a creepy guy hitting on the girls and it started to be a good night! We left at closing around 3 and didn't get to sleep until quite a bit later. I don't have any pictures of this night but I do remember someone taking pictures. I'll have to get those!

The last days of their stay with us was a blur because I was always having to work and getting back to the house late. All and all I loved being able to just sit on the couch at night and talk with people who are my age and love to travel. When I get back to CO (sooner or later) I think it will be easy to connect back up with this group and feel like it was yesterday that this trip happened. I hope the rest of their trip goes great and hopefully they will come back and feel right at home here again!
-Owen