A long way to go – part 5

Posted on Dezember 23rd, 2015

Now comes the steep part on this tour.
After I could see the first glow in the eastern sky, on the screen of my camera, by eye I couldn’t see it yet, I know, this would be my last starscape shot for tonight. Until I reached the top, the stars will no longer be visible.
Thereby I don’t miss the sunrise, I will not stop until I reached the gap you can see at the horizon. On the left is the Wartherhorn with antenna on the top. Ah, and by the way, this is sunlight, but reflected by the moon. The sun will be visible one and a half hour later, from the other direction.

A long way to go – part 4

Posted on Dezember 21st, 2015

Hurry up, the sun is coming!
Uh oh, what can the camera see there at the horizon? Is there already the first morning glow visible? It seems I had to walk a good part faster or I will miss the sunrise once more.
But beside the timing problems, it’s nice how the moon is illuminating the landscape. The peak that you can see at the edge of the Wartherhorn is the same mountain you saw on the first image of this tour and it’s called Bieberkopf and it has nothing to do with the youngster who’s trying to stay famous.

A long way to go – part 3

Posted on Dezember 19th, 2015

Yes, it’s still a far way to go.
I should stow my photography gear back in my rucksack and hike a bit faster. The left peak, the Wartherhorn is my destination. The bigger mountain in the center is the Karhorn which was originally my goal, but because of the bad weather I will go to the smaller one on the left. Wich means, I should go now.
By the way, you can see the cables of the funiculars for the daylight tourists? But now, I’m the only person here, up between the mountains.

A long way to go – part 2

Posted on Dezember 17th, 2015

The nature strikes back.
Okay, not that hard and probably it was anyway my fault. After I took the last image, I missed the right way and walked an extra tour. Actually I had to know where to go, because it was the same way I took with Bubu two days earlier in the other direction down to the valley.
But however, this gaves me the chance to take this image of the mountain I hiked the afternoon before. On the other hand I was now late and I had to hurry, not to miss the sunrise on the peak.

A long way to go – part 1

Posted on Dezember 15th, 2015

Yes, I fooled the weather!
You know, everytime I stayed a weekend in Austria, exactly this weekend was rainy until we left on the sunday morning, when the sun came back. But this time, we booked one day longer and while on sunday morning the rain was still falling and the clouds were hanging at the peaks until the evening, they vaporized before midnight.
Ha, I set the alarm clock at one o’clock in the night and climbed the mountain during the night. Our hotel is directly beside the valley station of the chair lift, unfortunately it was not running during the night. So I had first to climb the hill until I was on the height of the top station. You can see the lights of the hotel down in the valley where I started.

A huge panorama

Posted on Dezember 12th, 2015

The last image of my afternoon hike should be this very large panoramic shot.
For this image I changed my lens from wide angle to my 100mm. But I doesn’t use a tripod and shoot all the 40 images of this panorma by hand. My computer had to work for a long time until all images were stiched together. But at the end I get this amazing panorma of 30’000 x 8’000 pixels.
If you zoom in you can even see the people on the other side of the valley. Enjoy it!

This is a small version, click here for the medium version. Unfortunately only 16384 pixels width are working

 

An afternoon hike – part 3

Posted on Dezember 3rd, 2015

Now, after we reached the highest point, Bubu was taking a bath.
We reached a hut and sit down for a small snack and something to drink. Bubu could also drink some fresh water from a hose behind the hut. A few moments later and a few steps further, doggy found his bath tube.
As I told you yesterday, the ground was very muddy. What do you think was the condition of the ground of this large puddle?
Right, it was horrible, how much dirt can stick on such a small dog! See tomorrow the whole mess!

An afternoon hike – part 2

Posted on Dezember 2nd, 2015

And we are still walking upwards and enjoying the landscape.
Because of the rain from the day before, the trail was really muddy. I was walking more beside the trail on the grass. Every deep hole from cow hoofs are filled with water.
On our way to this point has my small dog Bubu some problems. He is always attracting young cows on our daily walks. They are running across the meadows until they reached the fence and watching their small fellow.
But this time are the cows and Bubu on the same side of the fence, so they were coming straight to Bubu and he was always on the run. Good for him, he was fast enough to make large bows around all the cows running to him.

An afternoon hike – part 1

Posted on Dezember 1st, 2015

You can’t trust it the weather, after a rainy saturday comes a sunny sunday.
And so I had no other choice to go for a hike. I grabed my dog and persuaded my brother in law to come with us and we started for small four hour hike with about 500m altitude.
After a while we reached the top of the first hill, I looked back from where we came from. You can see the road and the parking lot. On the other side is the Wartherhorn, which is still covered with clouds, like any other mountains around us. Therefore it was no option to climb a mountain, if I can’t take any images…

Bad weather again

Posted on November 25th, 2015

The third visit in Austria and again, the fat rain clouds are still following me.
On the second day, we had rain at most of the day. This short pause I used to go with Bubu. You can see our hotel on the other side of the valley. And the mountain behind it, the one with the clouds around the peak, is the Wartherhorn and behind it, there is the Karhorn, with a via ferrata. But with this weather it’s probably not the best idea to climb it.
But this time, we planned a trick to fool the weather. We stay until monday, because on all other weekends we booked, the weather cleared up on sunday when we left. And I can already betray you, it has worked