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28 Oct 2008

abyss - cross

In fall, when lower lying regions are lost beyond fog, the best thing you can do is do some mountaineering. Well, for the Chalk Hills of Lower Austria (name of Gutensteiner Alpen) you do not need to be that fit really. And to reach the top of those hills has some rewards.

A cross at the peak for once; even though this cross has been put up some 20 metres below the peak proper - and it has been put up lop-sided as well.

And then the abyss. You look down some 600 metres from up there.

The peak by the way doesn't even have a proper name; some maps call it Grosse Kanzel (Great Pulpit) but basically locals seem to refer to it as das Gelände which just means Area, or Ground, or Terrain which isn't much of a name, right?