Exploring Beautiful Alpine Lakes

It’s been a long time between blog posts, and I’m working on rectifying this to be sharing with you more regularly. I’m going to try-out making companion posts to my videos, so I can provide some behind-the-scenes info that didn’t make it into the videos, that will hopefully be of interest. It will also offer you the opportunity to look at the images from the video in a bit more detail, including the tech specs.

So I’m kicking it off with the most recent video from the middle of our holiday to the Alps last autumn: visiting the lakes of Lautersee, Ferchensee and Möserer See. I thought I’d share some insight into two inside jokes between Danny and myself that we mentioned off-hand, that didn’t work to try an explain in the video.

Saint Binicus

When we arrived at Möserer See Danny said something about “Binicus and all his parishioners” and in a previous video from our visit to the Sintersbacher Wasserfall I mentioned Saint Binicus as we walked out onto a road. These are references that will currently make no sense to anyone other than Danny and myself, so let’s rectify that!

Danny and I travelled to Ireland back in 2016, and whilst checking out the ruins of a castle we came upon a prominent rubbish bin. Due to its location inside what was once a cathedral, and aided by the fact that we’d been visiting various Christian historical locations famous for the likes of Saint Columba and Saint Ciaran, we decided to dub the oddly located bin Saint Binicus the Clean, the patron saint of rubbish bins.

Now whenever we come across bins unexpectedly we happily recall Saint Binicus—something which continues to bring us both warm memories and much amusement over the years.

Toby

The astute video watcher may have heard Danny mention Toby as we walked up to Ferchensee. This is a much more recent in-joke from our trip to Wales and England in 2023, though oddly enough also comes from an historical Christian site.

Danny and I were enjoying the serenity of the impressively located Saint Govan’s Chapel on the Pembrokeshire Coast in Wales when a couple with a dog appeared and ended our quiet contemplation.

The dog was running around barking madly (possibly due to all the seabirds, but some dogs do just love the sound of their own voice) with the owners uselessly running around after it yelling, “TOBY!!” Toby took zero notice of it’s humans, and the humans continued shouting his name over and over despite it having no effect.

And so from that moment forth all noisy dogs are now referred to as Toby—usually in a high-pitched, drawn out and nagging voice in our best imitation of those pesky humans (though as it happens, not in this video). I believe there’ll be a special Toby appearance in one of the upcoming videos from our trip to the Alps, so keep your eyes and ears peeled.

As you might have gathered, Danny and I do tend to enjoy ourselves quite a bit while we’re out exploring!

The Day

You can check out our time at Lautersee, Ferchensee and Möserer See right here!

Lautersee & Ferchensee

Distance: 9 km

Elevation Gain: 280 m

Access from the town of Mittenwald, Germany, just North of the Austrian border.

Möserer See

Distance: 3.1 km

Elevation Gain: 100 m

A short drive from Seefeld, Austria, I believe you are supposed to park in Mösern (walk is similar distance).