Category Archives: Hiking

Back to Germany (for a while), hiking and relaxing

Posted by on November 22, 2009 6 comments

After having come back to Germany (and having dealt with the enormous jet-lag bwahahaa), I had to experience how awesome the Munich airport is and how not-at-all awesome its connection to the city is! From the moment the plane touched the runway in Munich until the moment I stepped out of the security area (including baggage retrieval by the way) it took less than 20 minutes! But to travel from the airport to Heufeld (distance: approx. 80 km) where I was picked up by my mom, it took more than 2 hours…

Anyways, my mom and me went hiking today! And it was legen… (wait for it) …dary! We ran up to the peak of the Breitenstein and ate 850 meters of height in just 90 minutes – lovely! Sunny weather, maybe the very last warm day this year. Having returned home, my first action was to start the sauna 😉 But even if this day has been so beautiful (or maybe because of that!?), I can’t wait for spring to come.

Bavarian hiking

Posted by on September 7, 2008 1 comment

On Saturday morning, we decided to make use of the magnificent weather and went hiking. Well, it was not a big deal, just the Tregleralm, but nevertheless, it was very nice and beautiful. Take a look!

Fujisan

Posted by on August 19, 2008 1 comment

Monday afternoon, Shinjuku. Meeting with the colleagues to create the fellowship of dust. 🙂 Bus ride from Shinjuku station directly to Kawaguchiko-Go-Gome. Everyone’s energetic and ready to go hiking.

We were climbing through the night starting at the above mentioned fifth station (2300 meters AMSL) until we reached the edge of the volcano crater at around 3720 meters. This is, however, not the peak of Fujisan for it lies on the other side of the crater at a height of 3776 meters. Anyways, we arrived at the top of our hike around 3:40 am and waited in the blistering cold (around 6° Celcius combined with really strong winds and sandstorms) until the sunrise around 4:45. Harald and me took pictures, of course 😀 Did not see his pictures yet but mine are a little not-focused unfortunately. My fingers were so cold that I had problems working with the shutter button and the AF function… 😉

After sunrise, we started our descent back to Kawaguchiko-Go-Gome. The trail leading down is different from the one leading up. The ascent is quite straight and needs you to climb rocks a lot actually. Due to security (climbing down? no way!) and the sheer amount of people climbing up the mountain during main season (several thousand just for this trail every day) the descent route lies south of the ascent and is nothing but ashes, dust, gravel, sliding down all the time and really killing yor legs….

Around 10 am, we arrived at the fifth station – exhausted to the fullest and barely able to walk any further. Covered with dust and sand, having this nasty black ashes everywhere – and I mean everywhere – we waited for the bus that took us back to Shinjuku at noon. In Shinjuku, we visited one of the very few Burger King restaurants in Tokyo and finally said good-bye to each other.

Phew. Can’t really move my legs without pain at the moment… But here’s a selection of pictures 🙂

Takaosan III

Posted by on July 29, 2008 2 comments

Es ist mal wieder so weit gewesen: Am Sonntag bin ich – mal wieder – zum Takaosan rausgefahren. Nicht auf meine Initiative hin, sondern auf Anfrage einiger Kollegen von Siemens. Die wollten nämlich da schon länger mal rauf eiern und haben mich dann mehr oder weniger als Tourguide benutzen wollen 🙂

Der ursprünglich geplante Trupp ist dann doch immer mehr zusammen geschrumpft, so dass ich letztlich mit fünf Kolleginnen gefahren bin. Bei unser Ankunft in Takaosanguchi hat es dann leider prompt das Blitzen, Donnern und Regnen angefangen – der Wetterbericht hat uns ordentlich angeschmiert… Dann sind wir eine gute Weile blöd herum gestanden, haben Spatzen und mikro-kleine, völlig überzüchtete Hunde angeschaut (und geknipst) und sind letztlich dann doch mit dem Cable-Car wie die blöden untrainierten Touris rauf gefahren.

Oben angekommen, war das Wetter doch langsam wieder etwas besser, also haben wir die verbleibenden zwei Kilometer bis zum Gipfel auf uns genommen (ein besserer Spaziergang, leider nicht mehr) und sind zurück zur Station gelatscht. Eigentlich wollten wir (vor allem Fumi-chan) in den so genannten “Beer Mount” gehen, doch die Anzahl der Wartenden vor uns – etwa 300 – war uns dann doch zu gross und so sind wir wieder ins Tal heruntergefahren und zurück nach Shinjuku gereist.

Dort angekommen, habe ich dann den Anderen ein gutes Restaurant gezeigt (Ja, ich… Gaigokujin-sama führt die Locals herum…), in dem wir lecker Monja und Okonomiyaki gefuttert haben. Danach sind wir noch stilecht ins Karaoke, um den Abend erfolgreich abzurunden… Ein langer, aber lustiger Tag!

PS: Die Bilder sind chronologisch leider etwas durcheinander, da ich von mehreren verschiedenen Kameras die Bilder zusammen kopiert habe und zu faul zum Sortieren bin 😉

Heimat…

Posted by on May 17, 2008 1 comment

Mein Schwesterlein war mit dem lieben Flo auf’m Berg. Und hat Fotos gemacht. Und mir ein paar davon geschickt. Und ich muss sagen, dass mir die Heimat schon irgendwie fehlt, wenn ich das so sehe…