Olympic Ski Jump

The Edelweiss Lodge where we are staying is in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. This town hosted the winter olympics in 1936. There were actually two towns: Garmisch and Partenkirchen. Apparently the towns were not cooperating well so Hitler came and met with the two mayors and suggested they become one city. The mayors refused. Hitler then gave them the choice of going to Dachau Concentration Camp or combining the cities. Hence, the cities were combined and hyphenated. The original stadium is still there and used.

The ski lift has been updated and it is gigantic. I cannot believe that people fly off of the jump.