Early Hike - 25.2.2008

There is this saying: Early to bed and early to rise, makes men healthy, wealthy and wise...
...well I tried that and got up at 4:30am.

then I hiked up my "house mountain" to catch the sunrise, I didn´t get wealthy though but probably healthy and who knows maybe even wise... ;-)

and for sure I got to see a sweet sunrise from about 2000 metres!

Palnock snowshoeing - 19.2.2008

I´m not only back on my feet, no I´m back in the snow as well! My first snowshoe hike this season...

I was hiking up to Palnock, about 2000 metres high

down there you can see the "Drau" sneaking it´s way through the valley

and that´s the "Millstaetter Lake"

Catching up... - 13.2.2008

I´m back on my feet, two weeks ago they took off my cast and so I was desperate to get out there and see Austria, or at least Carinthia, the province where I live in.
First I wanted to check out the old Castle of Landskron.

It´s on top of a hill for protection against enemie...high walls,

old arch bridge over the castle lake which is dried out during the winter months


view of the valley down below

The I drove to the lake of Ossiach which is close by

took some pictures

and the drove to lake of Faak.


Both lakes are sourounded by mountains, here in the back you can see the "Mittagskogel"

Mittagskogel at night