Ziegelhausen III: Für meine momentane Kondition und Fähigkeiten ein wenig überzogen, aber wer draußen gerne alles ab 7 aufwärts klettert, schön, für mich maximal im Nachstieg. Und schön gelegen allemal.

Fallübungen:

Falling 1 from as3.1415rin on Vimeo.

Falling 2 from as3.1415rin on Vimeo.

Wie auch schon vor zwei Wochen schonmal, mal wieder am Riesenstein, da kommt man schnell aus Heidelberg hin, 20 Minuten aus der Innenstadt zu laufen. oder so.

Diesmal nur zu zweit da, aber schöne routen gegangen, immer wieder schön wenn man 10 minuten lang versucht und denkt es geht garnicht und dann man doch noch mit letzter kraft irgendwie über eine kante kommt.

Ein natürliches Klettergebiet ist auch der Riesenstein nicht. Sieht teilweise nach Steinbruch aus und außerdem gibt es immer wieder Griffe und Löcher die nachträglich ‘eingebaut’ wurden um das Klettern überhaupt möglich zu machen.

Some climbing at the Riesenstein at the bottom of Gaisberg/Königstuhl in Heidelberg.

we weren’t the last who stopped climbing that evening:

http://johannes.lampel.net/hq/klettern20100323.zip

Heidelberg Riesenstein from as3.1415rin on Vimeo.

Climbing-hall tourism in Göttingen – a nice one

View on Heidelberg

Spring is arriving.

Heidelberg / Neckar

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.

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:

For all those who havn’t yet seen it: Sirpa is somewhere far east: read!.

and some pictures from the last few weeks – mostly climbing

the stuff each of us takes to the stone pit gets more and more:

sometimes really great weather, even though the sun now already goes down quite early in the evening:

As usual, a lot of food available:

also some trees around there:

the DAV climbing hall in Darmstadt – the hall in heidelberg is just 11-12m high, this one 17,3m, you can really feel the different once you are at the point where there’s normally the roof *g*

The river rhine valley and Mannheim, seen from Schriesheim.