It's nice in hell...
… and there was snow there, in the Höllengebirge ("Hell Mountains").
I let my dad drive me to the place where I wanted to start, went over the first (small) mountain, and then up onto the Feuerkogel. The Traunsee-Bergmarathon (mountain marathon) will take the same route down from the Feuerkogel and towards Grasberg and Gmundnerberg (where I had been running the day before).
Rather unexpectedly, it took me only a bit more than three hours to make my way up. Encountered some runners (many more than hikers) on the way, probably some I'll meet again at the Bergmarathon.
Nice, sometimes adventurous, paths up the mountain, through the forest, over rocks, oftentimes having to climb fallen trees or make the way through underbrush that's rather close together.
Doesn't look like a path to run, but that's not the plan for the Bergmarathon, anyways.
Having gotten up so quickly, I decided to go on and hiked to the Grosser Höllkogel ("Big Hell Mountain/Summit," sort of). Another three-and-a-half hours to and back, much of the way across left-over snow fields. Well, it's only mid-June, and this is a high alpine area already…
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Anyways, I'm happy to have made it up there, finally hiking in the mountains, with my trusty old backpack (which I've had for a long time, always use in my travels, and never yet used for real backpacking!).
Today is the third day after that little adventure, and my soreness is passing. Since yesterday, it's been extremely hot and humid here, back in the East of Austria. Seeking to advance with writing that's to be done lest I never publish anything, anymore.
The day after tomorrow, the tests and then the talks that are part of the Monbukagakusho application will be taking place.
I don't usually dream, but with some nervosity about both this application (and I should learn about the application as lecturer for China soon) and the Bergmarathon mounting, I've had some pretty weird dreams. The heat did its part. And last night, some beeping kept on waking me - took me until this morning to realize it was my mobile phone's "low battery"-warning...
I let my dad drive me to the place where I wanted to start, went over the first (small) mountain, and then up onto the Feuerkogel. The Traunsee-Bergmarathon (mountain marathon) will take the same route down from the Feuerkogel and towards Grasberg and Gmundnerberg (where I had been running the day before).
Rather unexpectedly, it took me only a bit more than three hours to make my way up. Encountered some runners (many more than hikers) on the way, probably some I'll meet again at the Bergmarathon.
Nice, sometimes adventurous, paths up the mountain, through the forest, over rocks, oftentimes having to climb fallen trees or make the way through underbrush that's rather close together.
Doesn't look like a path to run, but that's not the plan for the Bergmarathon, anyways.
Having gotten up so quickly, I decided to go on and hiked to the Grosser Höllkogel ("Big Hell Mountain/Summit," sort of). Another three-and-a-half hours to and back, much of the way across left-over snow fields. Well, it's only mid-June, and this is a high alpine area already…
View Larger Map
Anyways, I'm happy to have made it up there, finally hiking in the mountains, with my trusty old backpack (which I've had for a long time, always use in my travels, and never yet used for real backpacking!).
Today is the third day after that little adventure, and my soreness is passing. Since yesterday, it's been extremely hot and humid here, back in the East of Austria. Seeking to advance with writing that's to be done lest I never publish anything, anymore.
The day after tomorrow, the tests and then the talks that are part of the Monbukagakusho application will be taking place.
I don't usually dream, but with some nervosity about both this application (and I should learn about the application as lecturer for China soon) and the Bergmarathon mounting, I've had some pretty weird dreams. The heat did its part. And last night, some beeping kept on waking me - took me until this morning to realize it was my mobile phone's "low battery"-warning...
Labels: Alps, Altmünster, Austria, hiking
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