Ötschergräben, Niederösterreich, Austria

View north toward St Pölten from Annaberg[a].

View south from Annaberg showing the Ötscher (mountain).

The west end of the Eralaufstausee, and the start of our hike.

Cliffs near the starting point. These in particular are on the other side of a dam that bottles up the Eralaufstausee and keeps it from pouring out northward. (The picture was taken from the west end of the dam - on the map[b] this would be where the Ötscherstrasse crosses the northward pointing stream.)

Memorial found a bit into the Ötschergräben. It commemorates the 450th anniversary of Martin Luther's posting of his 95 theses[c] and with that, the start of the Protestant Reformation.

Fodder hut.

Following a small brook upstreams. Shortly after the picture was taken we turned ninety degrees right and went up the side. Harder than expected with slippery trainers.

View north from a bit up on the Gemeindealpe (the massive immediately south of the Ötschergräben).

View of the Ötscher from the Gemeindealpe.

Strange quad-furcated tree.