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| hgrapid | Untitled Comment | |
Voted 10/10 | I'll be the first to vote on this page. A little complex for my taste, but anyone interested in the climbing the group certainly will have a good resource. | |
| Posted Aug 5, 2004 4:20 pm | ||
| truchas | Untitled Comment | |
Voted 10/10 | Wow! Amazing page. You put a lot of work into that. Thanks. | |
| Posted Aug 5, 2004 7:06 pm | ||
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| Gangolf Haub | Untitled Comment | |
Hasn't voted | Thanks! You're damn right I put a lot of work in that. Only think of the tags (bold and underlines). But doing the maps took me two weeks :-( Have a nice weekend Gangolf | |
| Posted Aug 6, 2004 1:41 am | ||
| Pawkala | Untitled Comment | |
Voted 10/10 | Great Page... | |
| Posted Aug 5, 2004 7:19 pm | ||
| mtwashingtonmonroe | Untitled Comment | |
Voted 10/10 | Great job again Gangolf! Have a good one! | |
| Posted Aug 5, 2004 7:27 pm | ||
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| Gangolf Haub | Untitled Comment | |
Hasn't voted | Thanks Brit! Now that this sucker is done you bet I will have a good weekend. Perhaps even climb something :-))) | |
| Posted Aug 6, 2004 1:42 am | ||
| BobSmith | Untitled Comment | |
Voted 10/10 | Wow! What a profile! Tremendous group of peaks! | |
| Posted Aug 5, 2004 8:32 pm | ||
| Vid Pogachnik | Untitled Comment | |
Voted 10/10 | Oh, man! What a page again! Congratulations, Gnagolf! You know - this is just in time. I just returned from a 4-days Dolomites hike, and on the second day we also summited Marmolada - Punta di Penia, of course. I have many very nice pictures :-)) | |
| Posted Aug 6, 2004 4:30 am | ||
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| Gangolf Haub | Untitled Comment | |
Hasn't voted | Thanks Vid! I'm looking forward to seeing you pictures. I have some more myself but didn't find the time to finish everything. | |
| Posted Aug 6, 2004 8:20 am | ||
| Moni | Untitled Comment | |
Voted 10/10 | Thorough overview. Great job as always! | |
| Posted Aug 6, 2004 9:50 am | ||
| nader | Untitled Comment | |
Voted 10/10 | Comprehensive page. Great pictures. | |
| Posted Aug 6, 2004 10:57 am | ||
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| Gangolf Haub | Untitled Comment | |
Hasn't voted | Thanks Nader. I wish I was there right now. Vid told me that he had been there last week and - man - am I envious..... Have a nice weekend Gangolf | |
| Posted Aug 6, 2004 11:16 am | ||
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| nader | Untitled Comment | |
Voted 10/10 | How long a drive is it from Mainz to southern Germany/Northern Austria where you might climb some good mountains? Can you do it in a weekend? I had heard in WWI they used to fire into the mountains to create avalanches. Maybe some of it happened in the Marmolada Group? | |
| Posted Aug 6, 2004 2:47 pm | ||
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| Gangolf Haub | Untitled Comment | |
Hasn't voted | Well, it takes about 4h to the German Alps but since the Alps are the huge weather divide in Europe we always do our vacations south of the main ridges. And this takes another 4-5h :-( Concerning your WWI question I looked it up in one of my books. Manmade avalanches seem not to have been employed in the Dolomites - probably because the mountains are way too vertical for avalanche buildup. But they fought fierce battles around the mountains that have commanding positions above the passes (or high plateaus) like Col di Lana (which is just visible in my overview map to the northeast of Padon - not marked though), Monte Paterno and Monte Piano/Piana in the Sexten Dolomites. Especially the latter is fascinating for us today. It is a small mountain above the Höhlenstein Valley which is flat with a summit ridge of less than 1km but huge drops into the valley below. The Italians had the southern part of the mountain, the Austrians/Germans the northern one (I forget which is Piano, which is Piana). The Italians had easy access along the southern slopes but the Austrians had to bring their cannons and other equipment up there by a steep, narrow and winding trail - which even nowadays is not easy to ascend. They fought each other for three years without any results...... And the saddest thing is that the best alpinists and mounaineers of the day killed each other instead of climbing something together.. ... I suppose it is similar in the Pakistan - Afghanistan border area nowadays..... Man never learns | |
| Posted Aug 7, 2004 1:39 am | ||
| Jerry L | Untitled Comment | |
Voted 10/10 | As usual, excellent and interesting. | |
| Posted Aug 7, 2004 5:53 am | ||
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| Gangolf Haub | Untitled Comment | |
Hasn't voted | Thanks a lot. Actually for me it's quite fun to look at the maps put up the lists and wish I was there...... | |
| Posted Aug 7, 2004 3:46 pm | ||
| marco979 | Untitled Comment | |
Voted 10/10 | When I come back from my holidays I insert the link in the Dolomites page. congratulations for the page! | |
| Posted Aug 7, 2004 11:26 am | ||
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| Gangolf Haub | Untitled Comment | |
Hasn't voted | Thanks Marco. I wish you a happy remainder of your holidays..... (I'm pretty envious) | |
| Posted Aug 7, 2004 3:47 pm | ||
| maria grazia s | Untitled Comment | |
Voted 10/10 | My best compliments for your enormous work. Very nice page indeed! | |
| Posted Aug 8, 2004 3:31 am | ||
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| Gangolf Haub | Untitled Comment | |
Hasn't voted | Grazie! I needed a break from Sardegna ;-) | |
| Posted Aug 8, 2004 3:44 am | ||
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