The Austrian Alpine Club (Sektion Brittania) runs an annual photo competition. I've finally got round to entering some of my summer pix; see here. Here's my favourite that I didn't enter; this was part of Stubai: Wilder Freiger by the Lubeckerweg.
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Having been only as far into Austria as Lech, may I ask how much further east these scenes lie ?
[Not far. They're all in the Stubai, which is a little SW of Innsbruck. Go S a little from Lech, follow the E60 about 100 km E to Innsbruck, go S a little on the E45 over the Europabruck then turn off at Schoenberg W to Mieders, Fulmes and Neustift -W]