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2 days Grindelwald – Bäregg and First

carstenschmidt — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 12:43:04 +0000

We have been in the mountains for (easy) climbing in the Grindelwald area. Even though there are harder tracks, our track was nothing for wimps. We have been up to 2300 meters. Luckily we have choosen tracks where most of the time we could enjoy the nature by ourselves.

Are we really sure that we wanna do this?

Yes we are! – A happy boy and his totally exhausted dad.

Bäregg – 1775 meters

Grindelwald from above

Higher than the Heli. – Can you spot the Heli?

First

Last view before climbing down the hill

Over the hills – Steinmanndli

carstenschmidt — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:37:07 +0000

Being a while ago in the mountains I luckily got the opportunity to document once more how lovely Switzerland is. Did I already tell you…? We love Switzerland and it’s friendly people!

Steinmanndli – 2040m

Brienzer See

Climbing down the mountain

carstenschmidt — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 10:21:40 +0000

You can not only climb up the mountains in Switzerland to discover phantastic landscapes one can also climb down a mountain to experience some phantasy like surroundings. 400 meters below ground is already enough for some exciting adventure.

The entry point:

A new planet?

Weird feeling

Finding the physical and mental borderline

carstenschmidt — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 19:57:12 +0000

For this year I decided to find out about my personal physical and mental borderline by facing myself a different challenge. Since I am a big fan from Mister “Sir Vival” (Survival) Rüdiger Nehberg and after I have finished his last book I contacted him to find out about one of the famous Survival Schools in Germany. And guess what, I had the answer 1 hour later! So this year there won’t be any excuses accepted anymore.

The only easy day was yesterday.

Zwerger-Raab

Trains in Switzerland

carstenschmidt — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 06:12:22 +0000

Couple days ago I came along this selfmade train at home.

I can’t say anything else than “delicious”.

Rome

carstenschmidt — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 11:46:12 +0000

On the way in Italy I had a nice chance to see some places. Thus I would like to recommend the two highlights.

Coliseum of Rome (of course)
Very nice especially on a sunny day

Maxela Restaurant

So far, I have never ever had as good food as on this place! Delicious! One can select fresh meat out of an enormous collection. Also the “Grappa Moscato” afterwards is worth a sin. This place is a “must see” for people who are in Rome.

Maxela

Tschenten Alp – Adelboden

carstenschmidt — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 17:47:39 +0000

Today we went to Adelboden and up the hill to Tschenten Alp to go sledging.

Adelboden from above

The Sledging Track (2,2 km)

Formula 1 Sledges

Keep on moving

We started on Level 7 because of our 3 year old son. After a while he got bored and he liked to go faster so we tried Level 8. Believe me or not Level 8 is already tough! However for the very last ride of the day we tried the “Airboarding Track” (Level 9) and that one was really hard.

“Airboarding Track” (fasten your seatbelt and click the link )
Link: NO FEAR!

Empty Batteries

Another unforgettable day with a changed hat and empty batteries

Next Mountain: Pilatus

carstenschmidt — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 22:14:41 +0000

Jungfraujoch first – Pilatus second. Excellent weather and excellent view. The way up there turns your legs into jelly while being in the gondola and looking down. However I have even seen people walking up the hill wearing snow shoes. Once more I am very impressed about the physical fitness of some people

Way up:

Pilatus Top:

Reactivating the Blog – Berne Alps

carstenschmidt — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 21:53:53 +0000

After some time I decided to reactivate my blog in order to keep my friends around the world up to date of what I am doing and what I am working on. As a starter let’s blog some leisure stuff first

On 21st of February I visited the Jungfraujoch with some friends who came over from Germany to stay with me over the weekend. The route: Interlaken Ost – Lauterbrunnen – Kleine Scheidegg – Jungfraujoch – Grindelwald – Interlaken Ost is definetly the most interesting one to go up there:

Lot of snow:

Eiger Nordwand:

Top of Europe:

On the way up one passes also the “Eiger Nordwand” which is very impressive especially if one has seen the “Nordwand” movie before.

Management World 2008

carstenschmidt — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:18:30 +0000

This year will be my first time at the Management World in Nice.

TM Forum

Finally I got the approval to go there. Travelling and Hotel room is arranged. I am really looking forward for the conference sessions and the trainings. It seems like this is THE place to get the information about NGOSS, eTOM, SID, NGOSS SOA, MTOSI and other interesting stuff. I believe this will be some valuable time.