Sunday we went up the Zugspitze. There’s a couple of ways to get to the top of the rock. One is by a cog railway to within a couple thousand feet of the summit and short cable car to the summit; the other way is by cable car directly to the summit from the Eibsee starting point.

We took the cog train up from the parking lot/train station pictured below. In that pic you can see the summit house and antenna ... way up there! We found that for most of the 40 minute train trip you are in a tunnel and don’t come out until you are at about the 6-7000 foot point where there is the main restaurant and chapel and the glacier begins. Then we took a cable car up to the top at about 10000 feet, but by the time we got there the weather had closed in and it was pouring pretty heavily. The way down was via cable car all the way back to that parking lot for about a 10 minute descent; it was spectacular as we came out of the cloud and could see the valley below!