tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1855404737927825312024-03-13T22:01:58.077+01:00Karin Eibenberger PhotographyKarin Eibenbergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11269121369687826552noreply@blogger.comBlogger50125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-185540473792782531.post-54547191681365068262016-01-05T12:54:00.002+01:002016-01-05T12:55:04.673+01:00Enfield in the Snow<div style="font-family: 'Istok Web', sans-serif;">
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Getting up early on one of the first days of winter can inspire you to a magnificent photo shoot with a motorbike. <br><br><br>
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Winter is yet to come, and it's still unusual green right now. But at least the temperatures begin to drop and there are prospects of snow in the next days. My hometown was under a thick layer of fog and so we went to one of those places where it't usually sunny when everywhere else isn't, and that's in the Gesäuse Nationalpark.
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</div>Karin Eibenbergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11269121369687826552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-185540473792782531.post-48965484548870112562015-12-30T11:16:00.003+01:002015-12-30T11:16:59.999+01:00Duerrenstein, Austria<div style="font-family: 'Istok Web', sans-serif;">
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Bernhard and I have finally come back home again - if only for Christmas and New Year and to work a little from home. <br>
We experience a quite unusual warm late December. I mean: we are really used to green Christmas by now, but this year beats it all: we had 10 to 12 degrees Celsius in 2000 meters! That is really not the usual green Christmas any more. A mountain that is on our to-do list for a long, long time is Duerrenstein near Lunz/See, close to home. The thing with this mountain is that it's not really spectacular. It's beautiful up there, it's one of the highest mountains in the area and it's alpine, tree free. But for summer, this is not the hike I'm really into... in summer, I usually aim for higher mountain peaks, glaciers, climbing... So we always planned a winter tour. Two times we tried to go up there, set up a wintry snowy bivouac somewhere only to have rain or snow or fog on the summit day - so we decided to turn around. <br><br>
But this time, we, instead of getting up there and setting up a bivouac for a night before hiking to the summit, went to the summit first and then set up a bivouac. That really did the trick. And the warm winter also made it very pleasant up there, with higher temperatures in higher elevations than in the valley below. I also have a brand-new flashlight I brought with me, so that was a perfect trip to do some experimental landscape-flashlight photography. <br><br><br>
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</div>Karin Eibenbergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11269121369687826552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-185540473792782531.post-21011082692263699422015-10-20T15:24:00.002+02:002015-10-20T15:24:34.273+02:00Indian Summer in the White Mountains<div style="font-family: 'Istok Web', sans-serif;">
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Indian summer is this very short period in the year, where all the maple and birch and whatever trees turn into bright yellow, golden and red hues, all over New England. There are many places to experience the Indian Summer, but the White Mountains of New Hampshire are quite close to Boston, about a two hours drive. So we set out, camped in the woods well below freezing temperatures and where just overwhelmed by the beauty of colors. <br><br><br><br>
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</div>Karin Eibenbergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11269121369687826552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-185540473792782531.post-90964637970588906242015-10-15T15:52:00.000+02:002015-10-15T15:52:51.507+02:00Acadia National Park in Fall<div style="font-family: 'Istok Web', sans-serif;">
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With Columbus Day last Monday, we had a long weekend that we could spend in Acadia National Park, Maine. It's the second most visited park in the United States after the Great Smokey Mountains, and of course you cannot expect to have solitude in this park, which is also not one of the biggest. There's no backcountry in Acadia, so no possibilities for backcountry backpacking or a wilderness experience like in other parks. But still, it's a very beautiful park, with lots of options especially for photographers. There is also some climbing (unfortunately too crowded for us last weekend - although we brought our gear) on the sea cliffs and there are some 'via ferrata' kind of hikes. They are not exactly what I would call a via ferrata like we have in the European Alps, but they are hikes onto a 'mountain' with the aid of some ladders and iron rungs. Not difficult, but judging from the people who attempt to hike up there, tough enough for most of them. <br><br>
Anyway, here are some pictures from the weekend. <br><br>
Jordan Cliffs iron rung trail. <br><br>
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Sunset on Mt Cadillac.<br><br>
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Cooking baked beans the cowboy way! <br><br>
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Morning on the boulder beach. <br><br>
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Ooops... somebody didn't make it into the hammock.<br><br>
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Hiking the Beehive trail, another iron rung trail.<br><br>
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Back on the beach.<br><br>
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</div>Karin Eibenbergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11269121369687826552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-185540473792782531.post-87988558550840950902015-10-07T16:16:00.001+02:002015-10-07T16:18:12.809+02:00Mt Katahdin via Knife Edge<div style="font-family: 'Istok Web', sans-serif;">
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Last weekend we planned to hike up Mt Katahdin via the famous Knife Edge - a ridge scramble with deep vistas to the valley bottom 800 meters below. I love ridge hikes, it's the crown jewel of mountaineering for me, so I really had to do this one. <br><br>
The only thing is: you have to book everything wayyyyy in advance: you can certainly do the Knife Edge as day hike, starting very early at the trailhead. But you still need a day use parking permit, which you have to reserve online, and lots fill up quickly. Doing the knife edge as dayhike also means you have to stay at least somewhere close to the trail head, since daylight is limited to about 10 hours in October already, so you need an early start. There's some campgrounds around, but the nicest option is to camp right at the trail head, which means at the Roaring Brook Campground of the Baxter State Park. I booked 5 weeks in advance and only got two bunkbeds. Actually not a bad option as it turned out, although quite loud. There was a group of hikers coming down Baxter Peak in the darkness already since on of them had twisted her ankle. They had probably done two mistakes: left way too late and the injured hiker was wearing !sneakers! without good and slip-proof soles on them. <br><br>
We woke up around 4:30, prepared an easy oatmeal breakfast and instant coffee (Ugh!) and went to Chimney Pond first. We wanted to extend our backcountry experience by staying there for one night. Chimney Pond campground is at a fantastic location, in the middle of the bowl of Mt Katahdin, surrounded by the beautiful Knife Edge ridge and next to a quiet and very picturesque pond. The only thing is: there are rangers. I have to say I had some bad experiences with national and state park rangers, and I think some of them have really no clue about what's going on out there... but his one ranger lady in particular was just a joke: upon arriving, she was standing there in her short trousers with a rain trouser over it, and her down sweater and gloves, obviously sun burnt, and told us that the Knife Edge is extremely dangerous, that it is not a trail at all (what a surprise, that's why we are here...) and that there are literally TONS OF ICE now because of the recent weather. To me, it looked like there's frost on the rocks, but okay, she said TONS OF ICE and that in the years before they would just have closed the trail for good now, only now they are not closing trails anymore. But she said we can't go up there and even with crampons it would be questionable, but without... no way. We should try to hike up via the easy Saddle Trail and see if we can even make it to Baxter Peak, no chance to climb the Knife Edge. <br><br>
What a disappointment! I actually didn't come because of Baxter Peak (some come just because of it - it's the northern terminus of the Appalachians and of the 2000 Mile Appalachian Trail), but I came for the ridge. I checked the weather every day before we left Boston, and nothing indicated a build up of tons of ice up there, but we trusted her and up we went the easy saddle trail. <br><br>
She told us of people slipping on the Saddle Trail and turning around because of ice. Well, there was NO ice on the entire trail up to Baxter Peak! I mean: yes, there were some frozen patches, but really: you don't have to step on them. So when we arrived at the peak, the ridge looked totally fine to us. Some frost on the shadowy side, no ice at all. The rocks were nice and dry. My initial plan was to climb up from Chimney Pond via Dudley trail which is a steep 'trail' where you have to constantly scramble over large boulders. Not so nice going down, but fun going up. So I wanted to come down via the easy saddle trail. Now, standing on top of Katahdin and seeing the Knife Edge before us, we opted for climbing it down and going down Dudley trail back to Chimney Pond (which I wouldn't recommend). <br><br>
It was fantastic, the Knife Edge is really beautiful, and the weather was perfect. Not too cold (the ranger told something like way below freezing, which wasn't true, too). <br><br>
And then some people came the other direction, who headed up a different, easier trail than Dudley and did the Knife Edge from Pamola Peak to Baxter Peak.... some of them had no backpack at all. A lot of them were wearing shorts. Some had only a cotton hoody. Most of them had no shoes supporting the ankle, some had sneakers (although the sneaker fraction didn't do Knife Edge really, they mostly went up the easier trails, which doesn't mean you cant' twist an ankle there). Some had like a half a liter bottle of water, I guess none had a first aid kit or anything like this. Most of them didn't bring a rain jacket or something warm. It is ridiculous! Seeing those people, hearing the lies of the ranger... I was really pissed off I have to say and I still am... feeling only somewhat sorry for the ignorance of all those people. Most of them shouldn't be on a mountain. And not on Katahdin in October. On the next day, we even saw a big group also wanting to hike Katahdin via Knife Edge, but again the ranger told them of tons of ice. Ridiculous. Then I looked at their shoes: bright and colorful sneakers with flat soles and no ankle support. Short trousers for the boys, 3/4 length leggings for the girls. <br><br>
Back in Chimney Pond, we stayed in a lean-to, which is a 3-walled shelter with a roof, but you basically sleep in the fresh air. A good opportunity for us to test our brand new bivouac bags by the way! Was a great night. <br><br> But we still left with that ambiguous feeling of how stupid man can be. <br><br><br>
Now some pictures!<br><br>
The bunk house at Roaring Brook. <br><br>
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Leaving early in the morning! <br><br>
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Sunrise! <br><br>
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Saddle Trail. <br><br>
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Katahdin/Baxter Peak. <br><br>
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Looking at the Knife Edge... we have to go there!<br><br>
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Hiking down via Dudley trail.<br><br>
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Food hanging.<br><br>
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Our lean-to.<br><br>
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Good night!<br><br>
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</div>Karin Eibenbergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11269121369687826552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-185540473792782531.post-949783684321945162015-09-11T16:53:00.000+02:002015-09-11T16:58:04.776+02:00As alpine as it gets: from Boston to the White Mountains of New Hampshire<div style="font-family: 'Istok Web', sans-serif;">
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Time for a new blog entry. :) In May 2015, I moved to Boston for a while. I got an offer to work at Boston University on things I enjoy working on, so there was no point in not accepting this offer. I left Linz with mixed feelings, prepared to never return back to my former University and workplace and was keen on new challenges. <br><br>
So far, I really love it! I work in the Active Perception Lab of Michele Rucci, and we're building the world's most precise magnetic eye tracker using the search coil technique. <br><br>
It's a lot of manual work, we're using some 5 or 6 km of cables and the whole thing weighs something like 250 kg or so. <br><br>
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Look at my serious working outfit! <br><br>
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However, we spend many hours in the lab, many nights and weekends, too. But sometimes we manage to go out there, and experience Boston and the area around the city. That could be a short trip to the coast down south or up north, or a longer bike ride to the Blue Hills. We learned to sea-kayak and are taking classes on a regular basis to improve strokes, safety, rescues and technique. We dive into the city - and we really enjoy Boston - and experience all the good things Boston has to offer. Like huge Whole Foods Markets around nearly every corner. Or craft beer and cider. <br><br>
That's Cape Cod. <br><br>
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But growing up in the mountains, this is not really satisfying long term. So the next level would be to go hiking or backpacking in the Green Mountains of Vermont. <br><br>
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The good thing on Vermont is, that is has also plenty of local farms where you can buy local bee-fair honey, maple sirup and fresh roast coffee directly from the people who make it. <br><br>
But still the Green Mountains are no real mountains. They are green hills, and some of them might have a stony top so that you can at least see something and don't end up in the woods when you're on the summit. <br><br>
This is the view from Baker Peak, overlooking Vermont's Green Mountains.<br><br>
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The most mountains you can get, are actually up towards New Hampshire and Maine. And so, two trips brought us to the White Mountains of New Hampshire.
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One weekend, we went there for a 2 day backpack to South Twin Mountain, Mount Bond and Bondcliff via Guyot Campsite. <br><br>
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And on another weekend, we did more or less a marathon-hike: we hiked up Mt Washington over the Huntington Ravine and back down via Tuckerman Ravine, next day up onto Mt Jefferson via Caps Ridge Trail, and on the third day onto Mt Haystack, Mt Lincoln and Mt Lafayette via Falling Waters Trail and Franconia Ridge Trail. All together, that meant about 3500 Meters elevation gain on three days. We could feel it on Monday, we can tell. <br><br>
The Huntington Ravine trail is considered the most difficult maintained trail in the whole United States, and it is rated as class on its own beyond the 'extreme' rating of trails like the Caps Ridge trail where you still have to scramble a bit. But it's really not that hard, in fact, all of the trails were interesting and funny, and definitely enjoyable. <br><br>
The Huntington Ravine starts with easy scrambling first, <br><br>
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which gets trickier higher up. <br><br>
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Mt Washington is known for fast changing weather and for really bad and severe weather. So always be prepared. <br><br>
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Mt Washington Summit with summit building... and many, many tourists in flip flops or worse.<br><br>
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Ridge of the Caps. <br><br>
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Top of Mt Jefferson, with Mt Washington in the background. <br><br>
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Falling Waters Trail...<br><br>
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Franconia Ridge.<br><br>
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</div>Karin Eibenbergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11269121369687826552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-185540473792782531.post-83283473359061028942015-02-25T13:11:00.001+01:002015-02-25T13:15:12.421+01:00Carnevale in Venice<div style="font-family: 'Istok Web', sans-serif;">
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I don't like things like our Austrian "Fasching" or even worse, the German "Fassnacht". I hate this enforced gayness and happiness. I also think that most costumes are not funny at all and I never dress myself in such a way. BUT: in contrary to our Fasching, I do like the Carnevale in Venice, although it is for sure a very big tourist attraction and there would be better days to visit the city, which probably sinks a couple of centimeters every year during this season. Alright, 'nough said. The masks don't make single sound and so should I. Enjoy the visual feast. <br><br><br>
Click on any of the pictures to see the full gallery. Or access them here: <a href="http://krian.smugmug.com/Adventure/Cities/Venice-Carnevale">Carnevale in Venice</a><br><br><br>
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And this is the latest photo book. It is a photographic compilation of pictures from our Nepal trip, trekking around Dhaulagiri, attempting Dhampus Peak (and surviving storm, freezing temperatures and acute mountain sickness for my part), and finally hiking to the Annapurna Base Camp. Included are also some pictures from Kathmandu - a city I somehow enjoyed quite a bit - and pictures from the Buddhist village of Marpha in the Kali Gandhaki valley where we had the huge luck to be right there at the annual lama dance festival! <br><br><br><br>
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If there's anyone interested in a photographic Greenland-Book, see this page for more details. There's a hardback with many pictures and pages available as well as a quite cheap softcover with less pictures and a short introduction in English. <br><br>
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</div>Karin Eibenbergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11269121369687826552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-185540473792782531.post-13329127293808901052015-01-05T17:58:00.001+01:002015-01-05T17:58:48.778+01:00Sumava X-Country Ski Tour<div style="font-family: 'Istok Web', sans-serif;">
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The Bohemian Forest, known as Sumava in Czech, is a huge mountainous region with vast wood areas extending from the Czech Republic to Germany and Austria. In the Czech Republic, a large area is a national park and while on the German and Austrian side, backpacking and staying outside in a tent in the wood is not allowed, it IS allowed on the Czech side as long as you stay on one of the emergency camping places that basically enable a full crossing of the national park area from north to south. Since Bernhard and I think of doing a longer ski-backpack with heavy luggage, most of all wanted to know how many kilometers we can cover per day on the skis we have and to check our snow gear for such circumstances. We do not have what the Norwegians would call cross-country skis, we have only alpine style backcountry skis with skins and quite heavy full plastic mountaineering boots. We do have recreational cross-country skis, but for ski traveling they have to be stronger with metal edges, and they have to be wider to walk on deep snow rather than just slide on nicely graded cross-country ski runs. <br><br>
Anyway, we packed our alpine skis, mountaineering boots, our smallest tent, a full bottle of gas and our heavy duty backpacks and went for a three day snow fun touring through the Bohemian Forest, starting in Modrava and climbing mount Poledink, and even camping out there in a heavy snow storm.<br><br><br>
This is one of the emergency camp grounds, where it is officially allowed to stay for one night from 6 pm until morning. <br><br>
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Always the same hassle with the skins ;) <br><br>
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My snow lion :) <br><br>
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Still on the cross-country track. <br><br>
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It's actually quite nice here. <br><br>
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Touring. <br><br>
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But breaking your own trail in this winter wonder land is much more fun. <br><br>
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River Crossing! <br><br>
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It gets a little bit frosty here. <br><br>
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You need good reading stuff for long winter nights in the tent. <br><br>
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</div>Karin Eibenbergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11269121369687826552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-185540473792782531.post-31143039252104783172014-12-30T21:06:00.000+01:002014-12-30T21:15:32.911+01:00Death Valley Hiking<div style="font-family: 'Istok Web', sans-serif;">
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Yes, you've read it correctly: Death Valley HIKING it is. Although most people I know do not usually associate Death Valley with hiking, this huge and quite remote desert area offers plenty of hiking and backpacking. In winter, though. Temperatures make actually very nice hiking weather in December, with days around 10 to 18 degrees and nights slightly above freezing. If the sun is out, it might get a little warmer, but the mercury never rose above 22 degrees when I was there. However, with the sun being quite intense, it can feel a lot hotter than this. I'm definitely not the one who would spend there a lot of time in summer! <br><br>
The possibilities for explorations, hikes and backpacks in "the Valley" are endless and even after spending there a full week, I can think of plenty things that I still would like to do should I return. First of all: the Death Valley is not the boring, flat desert you might imagine. Well, the valley floor is indeed quite flat, but the landscape is still changing: there are sand dunes, and salt flats and strange yellowish hills and some almost surreal parts at the valley floor boarder next to Zabriski Point, with naked hills in all colors you can imagine: from green to white to deep purple, and all kinds of red and yellow and everything in between. The most accessible of this colored hill areas is called "Artist's Palette" - the name says it all. Then you have of course Bad Water Basin, the lowest point of continental North America, with an elevation of 86 meters below sea level. There's the famous Racetrack with its wandering rocks (whose mystery has just recently been linked to drifting thin ice sheets in winter), Ubehebe Crater, Scotty's Castle and the Harmony Borax Works just to name a few. And then the Panamint Range that, together with the icy peaks of the Sierra, provides a rain barrier for Death Valley in the west, as well as the Amargosa Range on the eastern side. With the highest Peak in the Valley, Telescope Peak, you can even do some proper mountain hiking in the desert - and in winter, although not being a technical climb, it would at least require crampons and maybe an ice tool to summit this peak with its 3366 meters - remember, you're looking down to minus 86 meters then... awesome, isn't it?
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What I liked most it the ever-changing light. No hour is the same. And surprisingly, I even had a lot of rain in the valley, especially on my first day it really soaked me and my tent that I thought it will never dry again. Most roads were flooded, canyons impassable because of flash flood danger and even a lot of roads had to be closed.
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But you're not here for reading, and I am not a writer but a photographer. So dive into the photographs, try to imagine the sweet Juniper scents of the desert and hear no sound at all. There's some wind in the canyons, but it may be absolutely quiet in the vastness of the desert floor... <br><br><br>
Those Colors! <br><br>
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Moonrise over the Valley floor.
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Sunset at Dante's View. <br><br>
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Ubehebe Crater. <br><br>
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The Badlands. <br><br>
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Watch out for sidewinders in the sand dunes. <br><br>
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There are also plenty of mining relicts and ghost towns... <br><br>
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...and canyons. Hundreds of smaller and larger canyons to explore. Just be aware of flash floods and again do not step on rattlesnakes. <br><br>
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</div>Karin Eibenbergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11269121369687826552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-185540473792782531.post-87216608679254828592014-12-28T11:45:00.001+01:002014-12-28T11:45:55.865+01:00My first bow! <div style="font-family: 'Istok Web', sans-serif;">
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In an earlier post, I showed some pictures of me gaining first experience in archery. I was always somehow fascinated by this ancient tradition, but never tried it until getting tattooed forced me to try out outdoor activities that are not linked with hauling heavy loads onto mountain summits and what is more exciting than just running... ;)
<br>Bernhard and I went shooting several times, but with borrowed equipment, it becomes a little bit frustrating with time: you certainly get better every time you shoot, but since the equipment changes on a daily basis, you can never really learn how to "be one" with it. And this is what bow shooting is all about. Being one with your bow, string and arrow. This is the very essence, the very Zen of archery.
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Rental bows are usually real work-horses: quite forgiving and maybe even robust take-down recurve bows with a simple middle piece and two more technical fiber-glass limbs and an arrow rest, all designed to make shooting and aiming as easy as possible. In addition, I want to add that I'm a climber and motorcyclist who has unusual strength compared to non-trained women of my age. So the first rental bow I got was wayyyyy too light for me, causing me to drop the arrow quite often because I over-drew the bow most of the time. So it was time to start researching for a first bow, and while doing so, I came to shoot a longbow. What a difference this was!!! They are not only extremely elegant, shooting them is just so much more rewarding. They have hardly a handshock, are extremely silent and with only a slim and simple handpiece, they are next to the old traditional bows that have been shot for thousands of years before archery became an Olympic sport.
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This is me on a winter-outing in Lower Muehlviertel, next to Linz. <br><br>
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See the concentration! Archery is all about your mental state. Seriously... it's all about focusing the mind on the target.
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Watch Bernhard's expression.
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Another shot of me. <br><br>
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My bow with the name "Raven". <br><br>
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</div>Karin Eibenbergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11269121369687826552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-185540473792782531.post-41385910763181864532014-12-22T11:18:00.001+01:002014-12-22T12:49:52.087+01:00Blacksmiths in Ybbsitz<div style="font-family: 'Istok Web', sans-serif;">
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Ybbsitz and actually the whole region around my hometown has a long tradition of blacksmith craftsmanship. The interest in this old tradition has never been more than right now, and so a lot of the old blacksmith shops have been restored and interested guests can take a variety of courses in this old craft - from basic courses where you learn the essential techniques of iron work to more elaborate courses in making tools, knifes, blades or even damascene steel and blades. <br><br>
Bernhard and I have done the basic and advanced courses over multiple weekends and actually we would love to forge our own damascene knife one day. For those who don't know, we even had our wedding reception in an old blacksmith shop.
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So this is me in my all-white wedding dress working on a bird's feather with Sepp Eybl.
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One of the highlights every year is the Christmas market in Ybbsitz, where blacksmiths from all over Europe come together to create one piece of art, with each blacksmith contributing to the final artwork. Although the Christmas market is of course a market where you can buy locally crafted presents for Christmas, it is also fun just to watch the blacksmiths.
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</div>Karin Eibenbergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11269121369687826552noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-185540473792782531.post-2986246360122808792014-10-13T22:08:00.000+02:002014-10-13T22:08:22.719+02:00Medieval Festival and Falconry at Rosenburg<div style="font-family: 'Istok Web', sans-serif;">
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Having a tattoo that still needs some time to get healed properly currently prevents us from mountaineering (and even climbing). No heavy backpacks allowed. However, as the last post showed, we discovered archery instead. And the last weekend, there was a medieval festival at the Rosenburg castle near the Wachau in Lower Austria, not far from Krems. We took the chance and went there watching well trained knights in full-contact fights, tournaments on horses and of course medieval falconry - the Rosenburg is well-known for its falconry.
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...ever caught a falcon in flight?
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</div>Karin Eibenbergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11269121369687826552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-185540473792782531.post-47568719750670876062014-10-13T10:31:00.000+02:002014-10-13T10:32:55.901+02:00Archery - First Steps with the Bow<div style="font-family: 'Istok Web', sans-serif;">
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Although I was always interested in archery and, after crafting my first flatbow at the age of 14, I somehow always wanted to try it again, it never really happened. Until recently, when Bernhard and I went to Kirchschlag near Linz where you have three 3D courses and where they have rental equipment, introductory courses and so on. I have to say, it really got me. Archery is a very nice combination of being outdoors, enjoying nature, walking - not hiking that much - in moderate pace, interrupted by moments of full concentration and body awareness. Not surprising that the Japanese Kyudo bow tradition is a form of Zen meditation rather than a shooting experience. I really want to try this form of mediation one day, although I know it takes months before you even hit a target 2 meters in front of you. It takes a lot of mastery until one can shoot an arrow with a Japanese bow...
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It does not take so long for a modern recurve bow, in fact, you pretty much achieve a satisfactory level of precision and feel for the bow within a few hours. Although I'm still very far away from being a good archer. ;) I have to add, I do not like the link of archery and hunting a lot, and this olympic archery is also not what I'm seeking. Therefore, I am fascinated by the most traditional form of archery which uses longbows made completely out of wood, or at least mostly out of wood with some fiber-glass compound material. Anyway, this is something for the future - for now, I'm happy not to loose my arrows and to hit the target.
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...Did I mention I love my tattoo? ;)
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And this is what the training near Franz Senn Huette looked like!
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</div>Karin Eibenbergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11269121369687826552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-185540473792782531.post-90092230712368440942013-06-25T09:27:00.001+02:002013-06-25T09:27:04.302+02:00Alpine Training week Stubaier glacier part I<div style="font-family: 'Istok Web', sans-serif;">
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Right after coming back from a month-long trip to the USA, I had just enough time to wash my mountaineering clothes to pack them again for an alpine training week in Tyrol, Austria. We started with a three day theoretical introduction to rope technique and crevasse rescue, followed by a two day practical training near the Franz Senn Huette in the Stubaital. During the theoretical introduction, Bernhard and I had some time for climbing in and hiking, and during the practical training, we hiked to the Lisenser Ferner glacier in just awesome weather.
See some of our impressions of our last week here:
Hiking up Hundskopf in the Karwendel mountain range: <br><br><br>
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</div>Karin Eibenbergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11269121369687826552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-185540473792782531.post-9094316300012189602013-04-15T07:44:00.003+02:002013-04-15T07:44:53.613+02:00Leobner<div style="font-family: 'Istok Web', sans-serif;">
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Just a couple of pictures from the last weekend. The weather forecast said something like 'very sunny, 20 deg Celsius, no wind, perfect spring weather' and so we hiked up the Leobner in our Gesäuse nationalpark. Well... we had around 0 degrees in 2000 meters and it snowed. But moment we returned to the car, the sun came as promised and so we spent the rest of the day on our motorbikes. Actually, it was a perfect day. :)<br><br>
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</div>Karin Eibenbergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11269121369687826552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-185540473792782531.post-80168004559072902632013-03-25T09:12:00.003+01:002013-03-25T09:12:40.751+01:00Mayrwipfel<div style="font-family: 'Istok Web', sans-serif;">
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Initially, we planned another bivouac tour somewhere in the mountains, but the weather report turned out to be really bad, with rain and high winds. But sitting at home? Nope. We decided to hike up the Mayrwipfel to do at least some physical activity, and were surprised by the beauty up there. <br> And I'm highly motivated to do some physical training right now since I've applied for overnight backcountry/wilderness permits in Yosemite National Park, CA. I will have to carry EVERYTHING on my own there... tent, stove, food, bear canister, basic climbing gear... so I've even packed my bag with some extra kilos this time! <br><br>
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</div>Karin Eibenbergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11269121369687826552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-185540473792782531.post-91101524388713938502013-03-19T09:54:00.002+01:002013-03-19T09:54:09.477+01:00Xeis (Gesäuse) <div style="font-family: 'Istok Web', sans-serif;">
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It had been very warm recently, and we tried several times to find some ice for ice climbing... but all water ice is gone now. So we wanted to summit a couple of peaks around, but we had a very high danger of avalanches, making any risky mountain hikes to very dangerous adventures... although we had the brightest sunshine since weeks <br>. After our summit-less trial of hiking up Dürrenstein we really needed to get out again. On the Dürrenstein tour, we faced massively wet and heavy snow, had to climb over dozens of ground avalanches and slept in a wet bivouac before turning around with reaching the summit on the next day. Frustrating. <br><br>
Instead, we wanted at least to train a bit for the mountaineering and glacier tours that we want to do in summer and hiked up to Lahngang and to the Spielkogel via Johnsbach and Mödlinger Hütte. The snow was quite good in the cool shadow, but very, very wet and heavy where the sun had already been. Good cardiovascular training, though.
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</div>Karin Eibenbergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11269121369687826552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-185540473792782531.post-58723669741088569712013-02-12T09:13:00.000+01:002013-02-12T09:14:00.477+01:003 Days - 3 Mountains<div style="font-family: 'Istok Web', sans-serif;">
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We've spent last weekend in Pertisau on the Achensee. I really started to like Tyrol a lot recently and I somewhat fell in love with winter mountaineering. Unfortunately, we had quite a danger of avalanches and couldn't hike up the peaks we originally wanted to. There was a lot of snowfall combined with cold temperatures.
We were hiking up the Kl. Gamsstein, the Birgitzköpfl and the Zäunlkopf. You can see a few pics here: <br><br><br>
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</div>Karin Eibenbergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11269121369687826552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-185540473792782531.post-6170237291230931312013-01-03T09:06:00.004+01:002013-01-03T09:06:45.841+01:00New Year in the Sextener Dolomites<div style="font-family: 'Istok Web', sans-serif;">
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Last year we've watched the night sky over Shenandoah National Park in Virginia, this year we topped that with a nice winter hiking trip up into 2500 meters above sea level. We hiked into the Fischleintal and up to the Rifugio Locatelli/Dreizinnenhütte at the National Park of the Tre Cime di Lavaredo in the Italian Dolomites.
We took our tent, as much winter gear as possible, still had to fight against the freezing of all our liquids and toes... and enjoyed three incredible beautiful and peaceful days in snow and sunlight. With dramatic sunsets and beautiful sunrises. And we watched a party of two climbers in the wall of one of the 'Tre Cime'. We kept our drinking water in our sleeping bags and I had to thaw the contact lenses and cleaning liquid before use... but it was worth it - see some pictures:<br />
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Karin Eibenbergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11269121369687826552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-185540473792782531.post-18300067114206509022012-12-09T17:59:00.002+01:002012-12-09T17:59:56.964+01:00Schwarzkogel Snowshoe Tour<div style="font-family: 'Istok Web', sans-serif;">
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It's been a while since my last post. I've done a lot of mountaineering and will try to post some more pictures soon, but today was a nice one and since I've just uploaded a couple of pictures, I want to share them.
I'm still a terrible skier and so I have to stick to snow shoes in order to go up the mountains in winter. Well... I mean I really have this idea of starting glacier tours next summer and I want to get familiar with snow and ice this way, trying to handle ice ax, crampons etc.
Today I was walking up the very easy Schwarzkogel in fantastic winter weather. Nothing spectacular, but some nice fews and ice cold wind in the ridge. The mountains you see here are just about a half hours drive from home, so I guess I will be there more often this winter.<br />
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