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01-Questionalble * How will the weather hold? Worthwhile to take a walk, but take care.... * 1984 x 1488 * (159KB)
02-WorthTrying * It seems to improve, if the weather comes from there. * 1983 x 1337 * (146KB)
03-gettingBetter * Yes, it does get better! * 1984 x 1488 * (257KB)
04-OldLandSlide * On the entrance, the scar of a landslide long ago * 1488 x 1984 * (521KB)
05-JustOutside * The way it goes - just in the gorge. * 4188 x 3892 * (1.58MB)
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06-Inside-1 * A look on the Wimbach as it stumbles down the rocks, halfway under the passage. * 1728 x 3846 * (1.12MB)
07-Inside-2 * Sheer power: trees just broke. * 1488 x 1984 * (329KB)
08-Inside-3 * Water thunders through the narrow passages. * 3680 x 1784 * (402KB)
09-Inside-4 * A view of the short but narrow gorge. * 1488 x 1984 * (439KB)
10-Inside-5 * The wild way - there is water added to an already heavy filled stream. * 1488 x 1984 * (448KB)
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11-Inside-6 * More to the other end - where the Wimbach enters the passage. * 1488 x 1984 * (456KB)
12-Inside-7 * Just before entering the gorge. * 1488 x 1984 * (455KB)
13-TheEntrance * Getting in the gorge: the walls narrow the path severely. * 1488 x 1984 * (334KB)
14-Prelude * The other side - quite a contrast: a wide gravel bed where the river meanders. * 1984 x 1488 * (464KB)
15-GravelBed-1 * View into the Wimbach valley. * 1488 x 1984 * (471KB)
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16-GravelBed-2 * Towering mountains above the barrage in the gravel bed. * 1488 x 1984 * (428KB)
17-Morene * 10 kilometres long, and up to 300 meters wide.... * 3728 x 1376 * (913KB)
18-GoingUp * Going up the Hochalpscharte (from 980 to 1600 meters) in just a kilometre. This is about halfway. * 2576 x 1968 * (323KB)
19-Outlook-1 * View from outside the woods. * 1488 x 1984 * (311KB)
20-Outlook-2 * The Wimbach valley down the mountain - 400m down, or so * 1488 x 1984 * (476KB)
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Our last full day - not completely cloudless but sunny spots - and in the morning we found it could stay dry. Time to take a walk on our own, not heavy, so if the weather turned against us, it would be an easy back out and return. So we went to the Wimbachklamm - not as long as the Almbachklamm but more narrow, and wilder, due to the amount of rain fallen the previous days. Halfway, at the guesthouse of Wimbach Schloß, the weather tuned for the better and we decided to climb the 600m to HochalpScharte - on the road about 2 kilometres. When arrived there, we had great outlooks on both sides, and an impression how quickly the outlook can change!
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