Red damp

Posted on Oktober 20th, 2015

Always a bit late can give you an unexpected view.
It was a heavy traffic jam at the beginning of this trip and so I was again a bit late. Too late to be on the top for the sunset, but early enough in the mountains to get this colorful shot.
The plan was to be on the top off the Sustenpass before the sun sets and take some sunset images of the small lake there. Because of the delay, I had the chance to take this image a few minutes before the destination. Better to stop on the way and take a sunset image, than beeing at the desired point without light.
After I took some images here, I drove ahead to the top with the glacier and the lakes.

Tellsplatte

Posted on Oktober 16th, 2015

On the road again, up into the swiss alps.
After a few weeks the weather was still stable and I had to go back to the mountains for another exciting night. At the half way, I stopped at this beautiful point on the Vierwaldstaettersee called Tellsplatte. Who knows which story is behind this point about a character of an old german story teller.
But anyway, the light was very nice, while the sun was setting and the first reddish light was in the air. After a few minutes I was already back in my car and on the road towards deeper into the high swiss alps.

A last glance

Posted on Oktober 14th, 2015

The weekend shorttrip has ended, time to go back to the mountains.
Before I take you with me to my next trip in the mountains, a last glance over the light polluted flatlands with the milkyway over the horizon.
Meanwhile the autumn has arrived here in Switzerland and so I wallow in the memories and photos of the past extraordinary summer. But let us see, what next is coming…

A long way back

Posted on Oktober 12th, 2015

When you realize, that the way was longer than expected.
From the other side, it looks like a hop, but if you are on the way and you are walking, then you are walking until you reached your destination. Then you turn around and you see, how far you have to walk until you are back at your starting point.The highest hill at the horizon, was the point where I shot the last image. And a bit below you see the hotel, were I stayed over night and were I started today. It was thought as a short walk with Bubu and has ended with a four hours marsh. But I reached my destination on the other end of the hills.

The panoramic view from Roeti

Posted on Oktober 9th, 2015

The view from the lookout point near Solothurn, called Weissenstein.
It was a hot summer day, when I was walking with Bubu the dog, from the hotel to the highest point on this recreation area. This view to the east shows the tail of the swiss jura mountains.
You should see at least four cantons, Solothurn, Berne, Basel and Jura. And if you want to know, how high the temperatures were, watch my last image and ask Bubu
It was a little afternoon walk, with Bubu and not a high mountain tour, except the running sweat was the same…

A hot summer has ended

Posted on Oktober 7th, 2015

This year we had a hot and fabulous summer here in Switzerland.
After the bad summers the last two years, this summer was superb and warm. For some of us maybe too warm, especially the furry guys had a warm time. But sometimes it was their own blame, nobody tells them to run around while the sun is burning on their fur, this means you Bubu!
Now it’s autumn and we will see, how beautiful this season will be.

The holiday is over

Posted on Oktober 6th, 2015

Two weeks in an offline world, nearly.
We spent 10 days in France in a natural park in Burgundy. We rented a small hut near Saulieu. It was planed to travel around and visit some nice places and castles in the surrounding region and in fact this was what we did.
But it was a bit more difficult, the lovely small hut was in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by wood. The natural park Morvan is a huge piece of deep forest. There are streets through the wood, but they are narrow, curvy and bumpy, so you can only drive very slow, especially if you don’t want your dog is flying around in the back of your car. And so we needed every day a good part to drive until we left the woods.
It was not only far away to drive it was also far away for the internet and cell phones, too far. And so I missed to blog for the whole time, but now I’m back with a bunch of photos.
We visited a lot of beautiful castles and picturesque villages. The landsacpe was amazing and the medieval buildings were awesome.

The milky gleam

Posted on September 21st, 2015

After the high mountain tour, a weekend in the flatlands.
This image is for all of you, who think, why do I get not images of the Milkyway like Tom Fear does. That’s because you are not away from the light pollution and the high moisture of the lower atmosphere.
As you can see, here on 1000m on the Weissenstein in the Kanton Solothurn, you can barely see our galaxy. And you can also recognize why, because of all the many lights around you and towards the horizon. If you are looking closer, you can see the beginning of the alps.
And the next time, when you are annoyed about your starscape, think of me, I’m fighting with the same problems. If you want to solve this problem, then do it like me, drive to a less polluted area.

Two galaxies

Posted on September 18th, 2015

Two meteors, the andromeda nebula and the milkyway.
Well, every good story comes to an end and so will end this trip with this amazing image of the galaxies. The milkyway is obvious and if you’ll look closer, then you can, in the middle of the left image part, see a smeary spot, this is andromeda.
After I packed all my gear into my rucksack, I started to walk down to my car. In the middle of the way I was observed by bunch of glowing eyes, which were a herd of sheeps. But it’s always a bit friable, when you see glowing eyes in the middle of nowhere.
At the end I reached my car in one piece and I could visit another interesting spot in another amazing night, between the mighty alps.

Grimselworld

Posted on September 16th, 2015

At midnight on the top of a mountain.
You ever took a funicular up to a mountain, enjoyed the whole panoramic view from the peak and took a refreshing coffee, before you entered the funicular again on the way down?
Well, this will not happen, if you stand at midnight on the peak. Even if there is a funicular, it will not run at this time. And if you want something for your thirst, you need bring up by yourself, all restaurants ar closed now.
But at this particular spot, you have to walk anyway, there is neither a funicular nor a McDonalds on the top. Maybe some ghosts between the cairns, but else you are alone and you can enjoy the silence of the mountains. Except the loud noise of the wind and the rattle of your teeth, because it’s below zero degrees.