Descending via chairlift into the town of Tulfes after a visit to a mountaintop Alpine garden, we stopped for a sampling of homemade bread and raspberry schnapps made at an onsite still at a local farmers market run by the same family for more than 300 years. Some 7,500 feet atop Mount Rangger Koepfl our mountain guide likened our hike through the late spring snow to a trek across the Arctic tundra.