Neckar (click to enlarge)

Institute of Environmental Physics

It’s getting warmer

View on Heidelberg

Spring is arriving.

Heidelberg / Neckar

Once again, BlackForestCake:

(Work in Progress-Picture)

A first sunny and warm springtime day. (click on the image to enlarge)

So langsam wandert alles in Kisten …

If I’ll find the time to write more about polarstern and the chile holiday – I dont know yet. But I found recently some avocados here which are not too hard and thus ready to eat right from the store. ok, the price is a bit higher, you get one here, in chile you get a kilogram.
typical food when I was at pablos place in the evening/afternoon: white bread with tomatoes, avocados, red wine.

From santiago back to germany via sao paolo. actually really relaxing, I had 3 seats for myself on the transatlantic part, nice

At christmas time in northern germany, right back from 30°C in Santiago into the freezing cold winter of the northern hemisphere.

And not long in northern germany, back to Heidelberg, to finish my diploma thesis. more or less.

New Year eve had to be celebrated with a cake: that’s actually the ‘normal’ chocolate cake made of butter, chocolate, nuts and eggs and in between some pudding with cherries. great! You know that TNT has just 1kcal/g and chocho-late, äh, chocolate has 5? just doesnt burn that fast …

Some sima was prepared once again …

Sometimes climbing was the only possible way to relax from writing.

Data, I had a sufficient amount of it. Actually too much. This is one trace gas for the atlantic transect from Bremerhaven to Punta Arenas. Havnt printed all of them. (Ha, and next time, dont forget the gridlines.)

Now here’s snow for already some weeks or something, I don’t have any feeling for time any more.

(keine angst, das ist zweimal ausgedruckt)

Back in Germany again, after 2 months and over 30.000km distance travelled.

• Heidelberg -> Bremerhaven (train)
• Bremerhaven -> Punta Arenas (ship)
• Punta Arenas -> Puerto Natales (bus)
• Puerto Natales -> Torres del Paine (bus)
• Las Torres -> Lago Pehoe (W-Tour) (hiking) (pictures)
• Torres del Paine -> Puero Natales -> Punta Arenas (bus)
• Punta Arenas -> Santiago (plane) -> Valparaiso (bus)
• Valparaiso -> Santiago (bus) -> Sao Paulo (plane) -> Frankfurt (plane) -> Heidelberg (train)

http://johannes.lampel.net/hq/torresdelpainepanos.zip(~150mb)
http://johannes.lampel.net/hq/valparaisopanos.zip(~150mb)
http://johannes.lampel.net/hq/puntaarenaspanos.zip (~50mb)
http://johannes.lampel.net/hq/polarsternpanos.zip(~150mb)

Letztes Wochenende in den Niederlanden – der normale effekt, wenig bilder da viel zu reden, viel um die ohren oder auch viel gemütliche faulheit, schön war’s

Haarlem:

the bird should’ve been something else, but the artist didn’t really knew what kind of bird he was creating …

usual window of a private house …

actually: a prison!

Utrecht: a student dormitory …

Once again to the stone pit – the following picture is just the fixed rope route, (klettersteig) not the actual climbing yet.

This time we decided to go up to the fourth of the four levels in the stone pit, we havn’t been there before. Thus we also havn’t seen that there are that many of the plates shown in the following picture. The tracks up there were quite demanding, mostly (UIAA) VI and above. Which might be nice in toprope, but freeclimbing them when the last point where the rope has been fixed is about 2-3m below your feet – well, that’s different. (toprope: that’s when the rope is fixed at the top, thus you won’t fall that far in case you fall. and you don’t have to fix the draws in the wall, pull the rope up, etc. …)

M. being roped down after having finished one of the routes. Actually, there are not that many draws up there, just in the beginning there is one of them each meter.

An Overview from the north side of the fourth level:

And the sunset while walking down back to the car near to the Strahlenburg in Schriesheim: