MTB in Alp Mouintains, 2009 MRE

[housil]

Just came back from another MTB vacation in Northern Italy and Austria. BTW, check out my "new" (2018, used) VW Touareg I just bought that week

Went to a place where there was a village before they flooded it, so just the church tower is still looking out of that reservoir lake

That place is at the Italian/Austrian border and was a front line in first also in second World War.

We were biking up into the mountains

had lunch at the "Alm" what are Alp Mountains farms where they host guests for lunch

an Italian WW1 barracks

The actual Italian/Austrian border line

that is the official border crossing up there

Those are WW2 anti tank barricades

The most epic place at the former front line is that rock at elev 2009 meters (6.600ft)

that whole mountain is filled with bunkers

[housil]

In the evening we were walking that WW2 bunker line

the bunker entrance, note the door and the shutters, is camouflaged with concrete to blend in to the natural rocks

the shutters open, an MG or canon emplacement

shutters made from a metal frame with the concrete camouflage

We walked that bunker line, coming back home pretty late with no moods to go out for dinner again. Lucky me, I always bring MREs to vacation

I opened my oldest case, a 2009, and took the #23 Chicken Pesto Pasta and #24 Buffalo Chicken out and we cooked it

Must the Buffalo Chicken taste "sour"?!

That "sour" taste was too "suspicious" to eat it so we dumped it
Anything else was still edible and OK - except the civilian peanuts M&Ms. They became rancid after 13 years of storage...

[norge]

hmm have never had a sour buffalo chicken so i think its a good idea to skipp it

[housil]

[Dekard]

these pix are great! thanks!