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.

Back in northern germany since late evening of last sunday, july 11th.

Pia uploaded some of my panoramas.

On the video the waves look quite acceptable …

Sailing without sails from as3.1415rin on Vimeo.

Calm on the Atlantic from as3.1415rin on Vimeo.

Dolphins from as3.1415rin on Vimeo.

Horta Harbour in the evening from as3.1415rin on Vimeo.

we arrived yesterday morning shortly after midnight in the harbour of Lajes, Flores on the Azores. Already been ashore yesterday, slightly having problems walking on fixed ground, and bought some fresh oranges and apples. and the bernd met some other people he already met somewhere before on his trip. some km for a walk, but that was already sufficient. today some more distance.

the crossing was ok, even though pia as well as me had again problems in the beginning with seasickness, bernd didnt, of course. therefore I just ate a cookie and a small pot with noodle soup during the first two days – more was just not possible, even though I know that I usually feel better with a full stomach (as on polarstern ). things got better afterwards, even had some calms further on. during the last week we had up to 7 beaufort, sometimes going around 5 knots without any sails hoisted, ‘surfing’ down waves of 4-5m. it was quite loud inside the ship during these periods. getting the weather maps via short wave radio we tried to dodge low pressure areas and calms, arriving here after 24 days and 2700 nautical miles.

Sunsets, yesterday and today, yesterday with clear air, today probably affected by the vulcanic eruption on iceland (and some usual, common clouds) – roughly the same time and place:

and another one …

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.

Asun pari päivää ystävän paikassa, mun vanhan asunnon edessä (‘pieni’ valkoinen-punainen asunto). Sen jälkeen asun toisen ystävän paikassa viikoksi. Sitten takaisin kotiin vai Hampuriin ennen kuin lähden purjehtimaan atlantilla.

Neuenheimer Feld, Heidelberg from as3.1415rin on Vimeo.

In German this changing weather is usually called ‘Aprilwetter’ …

clouds were sometimes quite strange-looking

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