Leben Was Geht

Hi Caveseekers.
Last Day, Heli Steinmassl, Ralf Cassebaum and me (Bernhard Gruber) we went to Hinterstoder for exploring a “new” cave near the Eislueg.
We named it Scheissmauertichter because it is in the scheissmauer and the entrance looks like a cone.

first we climbed uphill with our equipment to the eislueg, we had a look some metres inside. we could not see a lot of ice in the entrance. perhaps after the winter the cave get more ice again.
then we went to the scheissmauer and abseil down to the cave entrance over a mountain pine. the firs abseil pitch is about 80m’s inside the cave on a 43° steep snow hill. the snow was not hard frozen, but we used crampons.

then we go climbed without any rope the left corridor about 250m with some narrow canyons and nice climbings with the back and footings method.
We saw many bats also mummies and carcasses from bats.
we also climbed down a hole but everyone ended for us. everyone said, thats good otherwise we had to carry all the equipment like ropes and so on over this “difficult” and hard and narrow corridor.
so we went back and did the measuring (length, horizontal and vertical direction) and drawing a map.

at the main hall we went to the right side there was a very flat ground with gravel. we explored here a corridor we we thaught to here a waterfall. i climbed in this really narrow corridor with the feet at the beginning and then there was such a big wind stream, but unfortunately the noise was the wind and not the water.
so we didn’t found any possibilities to continue the cave.
we could see also some stalactites and stalacmites.
after some photos we climbed uphill to the entrance.
we measured 455metres at all in this cave.
we arrived at 10pm the parking lot after a warm but hard hike through our loved mountain pines 😉
Wonderful cave, the access way is not the best, but perhaps the next time i can fly down with a speedglider ;))
have a nice week
bernhard

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hi caveseekers!
last day, i went with heli steinmassl caving to the brotfall near the großer priel in hinterstoder.
first we walked uphill 1800 metres with the snow shoes and the tour skis and carried the whole caving equipment including a 200m dynema 8mm diameter rope.
at 12:45 we arrived at the cave entrance.

then we abseil down about 40metres in a snow cave and did the measurement and drew a cave sketch. there were some nice icecles but in 40metres depth there was the temporary ending because of too much snow inside the cave. perhaps of the last big snow falls 3 weeks ago. shit happens.

then we climbed around the overhang and explored another big cave with many entrances. this must be the correct entrance, where a missing mountaineer falled down in the cave some months ago.

the time was about 15:45 so i walked down with the snow shoes to the hut and enjoyed the beautiful sunset while heli was drawing the cave sketch. what an amazing sunset! after the prielschutzhaus it was dark and finally we went down together to the car. at 18:20 we arrived the car.

then i had a nice bath in the cold river because at 19:30 thomas huber was coming for presenting his slideshow im vakuum der zeit…
thx for the great day!

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Hola chicas e chicos!
Last weekend i drove with my friends (Stephan G., Ralf H. and Pepi S.) for five days to Barcelona.
That was our first “Ennsfest surprise holiday” – that means, one organizes the trip and the others don’t know where the holiday will take place. Very funny for all adventure freaks like me.
First the flight goes to berlin, so my friends believed, ok berlin is the city, but then i moved to the connection flight direction,… you can imagine their strange feeling because they thaught, ok it is berlin and get responded to it.
while entering the next gate they got to know the holiday place.
what a surprise!!!
We were also lucky to met christoph m. from carinthia who is a friend of pepi, a jazz violine player and teacher in barcelona who showed us some good clubs on the first day.
Barcelona is a really great lively city for good nightlife, good architecture and beaching or surfing as well.
we slept at the * pension mendoza in the la ramblas opoosite of la boqueria – for us the best and cheapest place.
there are so nice small streets to walk we visted the la segrada de familia, park guell, and many other nice places.
we met tito a derelict from barcelona who showed us the real barcelona…
we must play guitar for tourists on the streets for living.
on sunday we went to the beach for swimming in the sea (imagine we had november) then we got a massage from two chinese girls direct near the sea for 5 euros. thats holiday…

the nightlife is really great too, one of the best club we visited even every days for some hours was the soul club. i think that is one of the best soul funk jazz bar in europe. the positive vibes here were fascinating – wonderful for dancing…
another good place is harlem jazz club or the boulevard culture club
we found good restaurants like la taberna del cura in the garcia quarter or the salamanca near the beach for the best paellas or the davids restaurant for very good fondues and wines.

The police was seen on every street and crossing. because at about 2am the dubious people came out to the street. for instance , one young pickpocket tried to stole my money but i was lucky that i recognized this immediately.
you find also the refugees from afrika who tried to sell very nervous their fakes from the expensive handbags and watches…

There is also a good latin and salas streetband scene in barcelona like 8 Punto G or Marlene Parafioriti and in la rambla you find really good street artists performing their shows.
it was also possible to do a kitesession in barcelona, unfortunately i let my gear at home – aaaaaaaaaaaa.
ok the next time i will bring my kite equipment to barcelona.
The southely laid back feeling is also very great here, you can feel and see this everywhere…
i hope i can visit barcelona next year, perhaps with my kites 😉

Hasta Luego.

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This day i did a afterwork running tour with my company collegues from engel in sankt valentin!
Thomas A., Franz D. and Richard C. managed this great tour. For me it was a really flat tour compared to our running tours in the ennstal…
16km in 1hr 35 min. with one small mountain and a great sunset – nice pathes in the forest and it was really not crowded.
its amazing!
i can recommend this tour.
cya bernhard!

Hi!
This day i did a nice autumn Mtb Tour in the orange coloured forest around Losenstein.
First i drove the Wurmbachgraben uphill to the Sonnberg, then to the windpark at the plattenberg in laussa, then gschaid. Then i shifted my bike uphil to the ridge to the schieferstein. that was a little bit exhausting. but then i had a nice downhill to reichraming. the next point was goashanslniedern ( in the rift it was very cold!), then back to Losenstein.
After 4:45 without eating (i fortgot my cereal bars) i felt tired because of no sugar….
Great Tour for well trained Bikers! Take your time and enjoy the beautiful countryside 😉
You can imagine, that i was very hungry after this tour!
cya bernhard

hi workaholics!

i have to explain you, because some friends asked me of missing the “everyday” posts of my adventure stuff on my website.

this week i ended my nearly one year without working.
i started my job at beko as a mechanical engineer in project consulting for an injection mould machine company in st. valentin (engel).

whats your opinion:
Why is working so important for every person and society?
Are you greedy for money?
Does the prolonged global economy crisis make us rebel?

cya bernhard

Hi!
This Night we did the flooglightclimbing at the Camp Sibley.
What a warm and nice weather in October -i like it!

Hi Mountain Bike Fans!
This day i started at 1pm one of the best Mtb Tour I’ve ever done. really!
Trails, best views, autumn, forest trails, downhills, single trails, lost way, sun set, illegal roads,….
my track was: losenstein, wurmbach, jochberg, sonnberg, schwarzberg, dambach, schindlbodenbach, damberg, windloch, hotel eckhard, dambergwarte, schwarzberg, wolfsgrub, plattenberg, gscheid, losenstein
i managed this tour in 5.5 hours without food only water.

Mtb Tour 'Around Losenstein' Map

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Hi windjunkies!
Last week Georg Schober aka Gogo and me (Bernhard Gruber) we drove to Hvide Sande in Denmark for kitesurfing.
we needed 10.5 hours with the car for 1300km’s.

on Tuesday we arrived at 7 o’clock in the morning, so we slept 3 hours on the dune behind the wavespot. what a great feeling, sleeping in the nature with the wind in the neck….
then we organized an accommodation (leisure residence with sauna and whirlpool direct on the fjord….)
in the afternoon we did the first wave session in hvide sande south….

on the next days we visited bork havn and skaven beach for surfing in the fjord.

on friday we had again a nice first cold wavekite session at hvide sande. what a nice feeling to ride this 3.5m height waves and jump big airs….
the wind in denmark was predicted for saturday in western direction, so the best spot would have been blavand because of sideshore and very good (clean but not too big) wave conditions.
it was also predicted a wind up to 110km/h so we decided to go further to the south.

so on saturday morning we drove from hvide sande to the steinhuder meer near hannover. thats a small like with maximum depth of 3metres water depth.
in the evening we drove home to linz. and on sunday i drove to cerna and had a really great southwest kitesurf day at the lipno lake in czech republic.

so i had 100% wind last week. holy shit!

i can recommend evryone to visit denmark for surfing! great country with great people for wind addicted people like me.

let me know if you are interested in such a trip perhaps for next year….
good night bernhard

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Hi outdoor junkies!
Last day i drove with my mtb the external frontier from the nationalpark kalkalpen in 5.5 hrs.
i started, losenstein, ternberg, trattenbach, mösern, bodinggraben, jagdhäusl, steyrsteg, haselsgatter, hengstpass, unterlaussa, mooshöhe, gr. klause, reichraming, losenstein.
nice tour in this amazing and colourful fall!
cya bernhard

Mtb Tour Nationalpark Kalkalpen