Archive for the ‘Mountains’ Category

An autumn walk in the Karwendelgebirge

Taken here.

Tirol Panorama

Doing lunch Tirol style

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maps.live.com, collections, 3D tours and skiing

As I now spend so much time in Innsbruck, I thought I better give skiing a go.  Growing up in Africa meant I had never tried it before.  To be honest I was rather hoping I would hate it and would then save a lot of money as a result.  Unfortunately I am rather enjoying [...]

Winter is here in Tirol

I had a fantastic snowy walk today…

MapCruncher and the Stubaitalbahn

One of my favourite trips in Innsbruck is a trip on the Stubaitalbahn.  This is a tram that winds it way out of Innsbruck and into the alpine Stubaital valley and is also a great way of getting into the mountains for some fantastic walking.  It is quite intriguing how the tram winds its way [...]

The death of map reading skills?

The Telegraph newspaper has a good story suggesting traditional map reading is a dying skill due to the increasing use of web mapping and sat navs.  I was impressed with how well researched it was. 
I spend a lot of time walking in the mountains and still feel that paper maps and magnetic compass [...]

Arbeiten in Innsbruck

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A late developer…

OK well I was always a rather late developer. For example I was one of ones that waited a while before doing that learning to walk thing.  My excuse has always been that there is no point doing something new until you need it.  Why walk when crawling was getting me where I needed to [...]