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- The Grünloch-Experiment (Lunz am See, Austria)
- Meteorological Field Campaign about temperature inversions in Alpine basins
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12th of December 2001, 05:30 a.m. local
time - Vienna - Huetteldorf: Our meeting point for our expedition to the Gruenloch. It was snowing nearly all the way to Lunz. Also at the autobahn we had problems with snow on the lanes.
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But despite the adverse factors, we
arrived safely at Lunz.
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The only possibility to
reach the Gruenloch in winter is by foot. We decided to take the trail trough the Lechnergraben (gorge), which you can see in the background.
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Snowy forests let us feel like in
christmas-time. Indeed it was chrismas-time :-)
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We had to cross rocks, icefalls, ...
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... and suspect, waggly bridges.
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At 1000m msl we found the upper
Lechnergraben-data logger with a snowy bonnet.
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At 1100m msl we had to put on our
snow-shoes, to avoid to sink up to our hips into the snow.
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The steep way up to Lechner saddle.
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The snowfall got more
and more intense, but we had to take this day, because next day cold air
from Russia was coming with temperatures down to -25°C at 1500m and we
wanted to reinitialize all data loggers before the cold air was coming.
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| MORE PICTURES OF OUR DECEMBER EXPEDITION >>> | ||
- last update: 10.12.2003 | contact: stefan@eisenbach.at|
