and next weekend?

there is one more weekend left- so we will climb Grossvenediger as well.....
more pics to come...

and after the Imbachhorn?????

icecream, what else?????

more sunny impressions

what else do you need on a Sunday?????

nutrition

Ruperts comment to his "jausensackerl":

I have brought with me the real power bar- he was pointing at his Speck! and an artificial one, pointing at the power bar ......

a vegetarian of course cant comment on THAT!

strange

I have always known that I am a little strange, but since yesterday I have gotten another proof....
we , no lets better say I wanted to try another route down but we soon discovered that the alternative route would take far too much time so we decided to do a short cut...
which - unfortunately for the two men meant going "querfeldein" and nearly straight downhill...
which for them was not at least fun.....
whereas I need to admit I really and thoroughly enjoyed it.....





I definitely enjoyed this part of the descent much more than the rest of the 4 hours going down.....

impressions of the ascent

what a day!

before and after

somehow "my two men" where more active and less pain stroken in the morning...


so what, a little training for the Kilimanjaro will not murder you....

Imbachhorn

as the weather was much nicer than 2 weeks ago, we finally could make it. our first serious training day....
and here you see the highlights.....

Nagelköpfl-Hochsonnberg

unfortunately it did not look too good in the morning so I decided to go to Nagelköpfl first and then continue to Hochsonnberg.....enough to be nicely exhausting but not too high to be totally wet if it started to rain....







and the weather was far better than we expected!

a very nice warming up tour .....looking forward to make a bigger tour in 2 weeks....

alternative Schmittenhöhe

as the weather was not good enough, it was the Schmittenhöhe we went to....
good enough to start the "training" for kili,......
and even if it was just a test for the equipment!

adjusted programme for Africa

and this is what we will be doing:

Aug 11 flight to Nairobi
Aug 12 sightseeing Nairobi
Aug 13 flight to Arushi
Aug 14 organise trek to Mount Meru
Aug 15 at the latest- leave for Mount Meru 4 days
Aug 18 summit day Mount Meru
Aug 19 rest day and organise for Kili
Aug 20- Aug 28 Kilimanjaro
Aug 29 safari

and if possible we still go to stay one or two nights in a little real village....

we will keep you posted!

preparation starts-Imbachhorn

and the countdown begins...
another 4 weeks and a new adventure begins...
so this weekend is first prep time...
IMBACHHORN in my ..well is it still my home? oh yes it is! so we will start with the Imbachhorn 2470 m....
4,5 h hours to the top...

starting point Fusch an der Glocknerstrasse
first stop Hirzbachalm 2,5 h
second stop Gleiwitzer Hütte. 1h
and then it is another hour to the top....