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Hi Fun Freaks!
This Day we (Bernhard, Julia and Joachim) did a Canyoning Tour at the Hochschlacht in Reichraming. We drove with the Mtb from Reichraming to the Schleiferfall. Then we walked uphill to the top of the tour. after some break we started the canyoning tour.
it was very funny impresive and a lot to do for me (especially for me, because all the others were canyoning rookies…)
nevertheless we had enough water to get some good action like jumping or pulling down our rope….
just look at the pics…
the last schleierfall abseil part was really great and amazing. what a great feeling to do this in the great nature.
i like it.
ok cya bernhard

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Hi Friends of Mountain Biking!
This Day was the day. 2 years ago i had an aim to do 5000m altitude difference in one day with the mountainbike.
last year i managed 3500m, but being in bildungskarenz that helps a little bit to do better training!
you can find a tour description here.

so i started at 7:45am in the morning from losenstein and i drove to trattenbach (near ternberg). then i drove uphill over the schreibachfall to the schobersteinhaus and then downhill to trattenbach. i repeated this 4 times. so alltogether 5 times trattenbach to schobersteinhaus and trattenbach. the first part i managed in 1hr:9min, the last in 1hr:27min. i managed 4 times to drive through the schreibachfall with an increase of 20%, the last time i had to shift my bike…
the whole bike tour takes 9hrs and 30min.

this day i had many advantages: first the repaired street which was in good condition, then the cloudy cold weather, and then the plums and apples that i picked for filling up my sugar balance and i had a good altidue training 4 days ago so i had an increased haemoglobin concentration, therefore the oxygen carrying capacity of their blood is increased..
tomorrow there is the schobersteintrophy. the best time was 42min21sek.
so you can start to train for the competition for 2010…

i can’t attend at the schobersteintrophy because tomorrow david scheutz will marry stöllnbeger anneliese…..

cya next time on the bike. and don’t fortget to increase your altitude difference slowly, otherwise your heart will get some cracks 😉
stay as cool bernhard

hi mountain freaks!
last two days we visted the großglockner with michael schmidthaler and me (bernhard gruber)
we drove to kals am großglockner to the lucknerhaus parking lot and walked about 2.5 hours to the stüdlhütte.
after one drink we visited the small mountain behind the hut for sunset.
schmidi did there a nude photo with the großglockner behind, but he didn’t allowed me to publish this picture. i think that’s better so! 😉
the stüdlhütte is big and it feels like a hotel.
on this morning (tuesday) we woke up at 4:40am
at 5:10 we started as the first group without any breakfast uphill over the teischnitzkees to the beginning of the stüdlgrat.
the wind was blowing sometimes really strong, but we managed the glacier and the crevasses without the use of the rope and crampons. the difficulty grade of the stüdlgrat is 3+/A0 and it is about 500 metres of height. one part is 4+ difficulty grade on free climbing.
you can find a topo here.
so it is very important to be in good condition for this alpine tour.
if you are planning to do such a tour with a guide just ask at http://www.glocknerfuehrer.at/ the guided tour for the stüdlgrat cost 320€.
we arrived at 7’o clock the breakfast place. then the first guided tour overtaked us. they were using the shortrope technology. for me thats too dangerous, but nevertheless its fast.
from this point on we did the further tour only with using the rope, because there was ice and snow in this tour. so one fault without rope and you will fall down… then the sun arrived to us and suddenly it was getting warm – wonderful. the sunrise was amazing too. there were some really nice climbing spots and the tour was getting more compact.
we arrived at the mountain top of the großglockner (3798m) after 4hrs:50min. at about 10:00 am. what a nice feeling. for schmidi it was the first ascent to the großglockner, the highest mountain of austria. many mountaineers was trying to go from the kleinglockner to the großglockner over the normal route. on the weekend i think it is not the best mountain top for getting a great mountain feeling.
we climbed down over the normal route to the kleinglockner and the glocknerleitl then the adlersruhe and then crossed the ködnistzkees to the stüdlhut then lucknerhut and then lucknerhaus. at 13:40 we arrived the car and our feet felt really tired after the long descent.
one look back to the großglockner and then we drove back home.
what a nice alpine climbing tour. if you have time just do this tour – you will get satisfied for sure.
if you have good manageable interesting mountaineering plans for this autumn -just let me know – i will have time 😉
cya on the mountains
bernhard

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Hi wellbalanced friends!

sorry guys, that i haven’t done any uploads the last days: one reason was that we have done an exploration – what i am not willing to publish now and the other was the stag night on friday from david scheutz. i think that needs some privacy protection. you can imagine that we had a lot of fun (david had to do some wakeboarding with a girls swim suit and then he had to sell drinks in a dirndl dress with gumboots… long night…)

This day we(Eder Tobi and Huber Andi and me ) did a 110m longline session at the camp sibley.
huber andi managed to go in both directions the whole line – big up man!
and i have at the last 10m the problem, that my brain says to me: don’t do this shit man…
and finally andi did some nice extreme surfings on the long line.
by the way: on wednesday brenninger daniel managed the 110m slackline too. respect!
cya bernhard

Hi Folks!
This Sunday was a nice sports day.
first i did at 6am a 2 hours earlymorning kitesurfsession in traunkirchen.
you can imagine the wonderful atmosphere dark lake and only some surfers outside, the nice traunstein in red coloured contures. 1 hour later the first sun rays – wowww!!! great beginning of the day.
in the afternoon we built a 110m slackline at the camp sibley. that was not so easy, but we managed to fix the line.
huber andreas (steyr) managed the whole 110m slackline. he counted the steps: it was 220 steps – Congratulation!!
brenninger daniel (steyr) managed nearly the line, he missed only the last 3 metres. and i (bernhard gruber) had to go 15 metres more… forster christoph has to train a bit more, then he also is able to manage the longline.
you can see the fixing height on a picture, where a car is driving unter the line.
what a balance feeling!
have a nice week!
bernhard

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Hi Outdoorfreaks!
This day, Martin Fickert and me (Bernhard Gruber) we drove with the Mtb to the haselbach in the nationalpark kalkalpen. then we went with our neoprensuits the cold haselbach uphill.
first we try to avoid the water but after a while we get merged with the water 😉
so we arrived the goldloch and we had a mystic misty atomosphere. then we moved further uphill. the sun arrived the bottom of the canyon at about half past 10. what a warm feeling! then we went downwards the haselgraben and did some jumps. then there was sun at the goldloch! thats a big difference to the foto in the morning…
then we climbed up the gold and arrived the goldloch-cave. thats the goldloch spring. we moved a little bit inside and take some pictures. you have only place over the water for your head to breathe! wonderful! it is about 100m’s depth the cave! great!
when we left the goldloch we had a rockfall, probably a chamois has triggered the rockfall. so wear a helmet in this easy canyon too, otherwise you are silly.
then we finished the canyoning tour and we drove uphill the jörglgraben to the “wood avalanche” – many crossed trees lay here. amazing! then some darks clouds came over the sky with little rain. so we had to go back to reichraming and further to losenstein.
what a great day!

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Hi caveseekers!
This day Martin Fickert (from steyr) and me (Bernhard Gruber) we drove to windischgarsten and we visited the cave eiskapelle. there was no ice inside the cave left but nevertheless it was worth to have a look in it.
then we walked to the other side of the mountain and had a look to a big horizontal gap in the wall we could see from the parking lot. its called the reif cave. there we climbed about 30m’s inside and did some pictures.
then we walked down, and i was happy to find another cave entrance. i abseiled down about 15m’s then little bit climbing. there it was really narrow and here we saw a bat. then i abseiled down about 30m’s and i had to stop because of no more rope… i built there a carin for marking my exploration point. after consultation with the sierninger höhlenverein i get t know that this cave is the kohlenrutsche cave.
so we didn’t found any new cave. but it was worth it – for sure.
after the caving we drove to the wurbauer kogel and did the summer alpine coaster. i like the children stuff 😉
it was a nice exploration day. thats life!
keep it going!

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Hi Adrenalinjunkies!
This day a group from steyr and me (bernhard gruber), we drove to rosenau near windischgarsten and we visited the flying fox arena at the höllgraben. our tourguide was gerald kammerhuber from the company outdoorfriends. the tour is called the magic sun.
so we rent only the tandem speed pulley the hip belt and a helmet – i did this tour barefoot. so special freaks won’t need any special shoes 😉
we had a small way to the start of the action. we had to walk on a fixed rope route to the different flying foxes. that is a cable way where you are fixed with the harness and a pulley to the steel cable.
the longest flying fox was 180m’s long – yippie yippe yeah!
then you cross the canyon with a nice speed. really great feeling and nice views.
you will get good adrenalin for sure!

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Hi!
Yesterday Peter from Asten and me, we drove to podersdorf for kitesurfing. we had 6-7bft nothwesterly wind and 26 °C temperature.
the water was very warm – really great for surfing.
nevertheless the numbers of kiters has increased dramatically – wow . every midlifecrised man is doing kitesurfing – crazy!!
6hrs of kitesurfing in podersdorf – yeahhh.
Hang loose!
Bernhard

Hello – blub blub blub!!
This day i went diving with my sister maria and with karin from laussa to the “untere traunfälle” in steyrermühl.
we were lucky to have a open fence for climbing to the water because our army was testing a scooter and taking some pictures.
they had a dräger 6 rebreather system and a weapon and a underwater scooter (10km/h max speed and 4 hrs accu time)
they were black rouged in their face and all of their equipment black -really strange and dangerous looking.
nevertheless we had a really nice diving for 50mins , 6.5metres depth and a visibility of about 8m. we saw many big fishes and an big american sign cancer. we dived through many canyons and nice holes – wonderful!! what a fun dive. after the dive we went fish on a stick eating. here in steyrermühl you can get one of the best fish on a stick.
s. now i am really tired – you can imagine our increased nitrogen amount.
nitrogen narcosis is so good for relaxing ;))
cya