Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
I like it a lot, but I don't think I'll live here. Let me justify that after I go through Garmisch-Patenkirchen.
G-P is gearing up for the 2012 ski jump championships, and is a major skiing destination for Germany - there's a ridge of five or six peaks set up as a single resort, and after hiking through a lot of it I can see why. The two highest peaks, the Zugspitze and the Alpspitze, get above the tree line; there is a continuous two thousand meters of ski-...