#Harz National Park

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“Memory lane” 🍁🚂 by | Christiane Hube

Harz National Park, Wernigerode, Lower Saxony, Germany

#wernigerode #landscape #nature #autumn #harz national park #travel #forest #germany #curators on tumblr #uploads

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Germany (📸@ tom_juenemann ) Locations: 1. Neuschwanstein Castle 2. Eltz Castle 3. Rakotzbrücke 4. Harz National Park 5. Eibsee, Bayern 6. Freudenberg 7. Herzogstuhl, Thüringen 8. Cochem Castle

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#Harz #National Park #Germany #train #railroad #steam #locomotive #forest

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We got the first snow and ice of the winter in November last year – that hasn’t happened this early for quite some time! The snow melted within a day or two, but it was a lovely preview for a couple more snow days this winter.

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#nature #sunlight #plant #sky #tree #sun #clouds #water #landscape #flower #harz #national park #germany

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Harz National Park, Germany 🇩🇪

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The first snow has finally fallen in the Harz this season!l

Harz National Park , Germany

Photo by:@bm_nightscapes

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Harz national park, Germany

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28.08.-04.09.2022

We were on a tenting vacation in the Harz (middle Germany national park with a lot of low mountains and forest) with @nefja .

It was a lot of fun, lots of hiking in a beautiful but slowly dying landscape.

Even though the days were really nice to hike (temperature around 20°C and often slightly cloudy) the nights (and therefore the evenings and mornings) gut pretty chilly (8°C). So we went to bed in our tents in the early evening. It was comfy in the sleeping bags and really quiet until the end of our vacation. Then some loud groups were settling around us. But we were exhausted from the days so still falling asleep pretty easily.

I'll post some more pictures from our vacation in the next days, so stay tuned 😘

#eurasier #dogblr #loki the dog #loki #featuring me #nefja #hiking #harzmountains #icelandic sheepdog #dog photography #dog

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#art #art prints #forest #treest #green #grey #fog #mist

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If you ever wondered how the Harz and specifically the Brocken region prepares for forest fires, this here is one of the key elements. This railroad tank car stores 24 cubic meters of water, and that’s really all it does. It’s parked on a siding at Drei Annen Hone station of the Harzer Schmalspurbahnen, a narrow gauge railway that runs mostly with steam locomotives. Two others are stored at other places along the network. The plan is that if there is a forest fire in the region near their tracks, then the nearest locomotive leaves its train in Drei Annen Hohne, couples to this car, and brings it up the mountain to assist in firefighting.

Rail fans may recognise that this is actually a combination of two train cars: A normal-gauge tank car on top, and it is standing on a special low meter gauge transporter car. Historically, that was used to bring normal gauge freight cars to businesses along the narrow-gauge line. These days, the normal gauge tank car is mounted there permanently, because apparently that was cheaper. It doesn’t have any markings or brakes anymore, so it couldn’t legally run on the normal gauge network anyway.

This system sounds kind of crazy, especially since this means that the water for fighting forest fires usually gets hauled by a steam locomotive. But in practice, it generally works well, the few times when it needs to be tested. Forest fires here tend to be relatively small affairs (one or two hectares) anyway, and this amount of water definitely helps.

At least normally. 

Right now the Brocken region has a forest fire that is burning on 150 hectares. The Harz is suffering from a combination of climate change and massive bark beetle infestations, which means a lot of the forest (mostly spruce monoculture) is either gone or dead and very dry, and that helps forest fires a lot. So far it’s deep in the national park area, and it’s currently not endangering anyone except the tourism business. But all of a sudden, except not suddenly at all, the fact that forest fire preparedness is just this has become woefully inadequate.

The fire region is largely inaccessible by truck. Some firefighting is actually done with these water tank cars, in trains that have a locomotive, a tank car and a passenger car for the firefighters. But most of it has to be done by air, and Germany as a whole is not well prepared for that.

The job of aerial firefighting largely belongs to police helicopters here, which get special buckets attached via ropes. The problem is that they may not be available as soon as you want them to. By now we also have some military helicopters helping out (at least one NH90 and a CH53 for those keeping score at home), but that also took several days. And there are no firefighting planes whatsoever here.

To help out, there are currently two Canadair CL-415 from the Italian firefighting corps helping out via an EU initiative. German politicians have resisted buying any of these because we don’t have enough lakes where those scoop water from basically in low-level flight; but those two machines have managed to find one nevertheless (even if it is a bit further away than ideal). Of course the manual for these machines states that they’re best used as soon as possible, not after two days as here, but they still seem to help.

What’s next for this? Well, hopefully some rain, starting on Wednesday. The district Harz, where this takes place (though note that the district does not cover all of the Harz mountains, and isn’t fully in the Harz mountains) has already announced that if the state and federal levels don’t act, then they’ll buy a small fire-fighting plane of their own, specifically some agricultural machine that can deliver a couple hundred litres of water.

With the big aircraft like the CL-415, the situation is more difficult. Even if we manage to convince our politicians that we need them, production stopped in 2015. Since then the type has been sold to a different company that recently announced plans to restart production of an enhanced version, named CL-515, which should have its first flight relatively soon, with commercial service starting around 2025. So if Germany orders now, they won’t get any before then, and given that there are already close to thirty orders, it’ll likely take even longer.

With any luck at least the small aircraft will be ordered, and also more helicopters that can respond more quickly. Who knows, maybe the government will even do something to slow climate change eventually, although that won’t undo what we have today of course.

But it still seems that in the near future, these tank cars will still remain the basis for fighting forest fires in the region.

#train #railroad #hsb #brocken #forest #fire #harz #harzer schmalspurbahnen

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USA 12.9.23: Redwood National State Park

Worum's geht: Wanderung, etwas Geschichte zu den Redwoods, Werbung für Rosinen, eine rüstige Volunteer

Nur 25 Minuten vom Campingplatz Abalone entfernt liegt der Zugang zu einem der Redwood State Parks, der auch zufällig unter den Google-Rezensionen empfohlen wurde. Ich habe mir eine kleine Challenge gegeben und eine Hin-und-Zurück-Wanderung mit steilem Gefälle ausgesucht. Genauer gesagt habe ich das mit dem Gefälle übersehen und natürlich falsch angefangen, nämlich auf dem Berg geparkt und mir den beschwerlichen Teil der Wanderung für den Rückweg aufgehoben. Gut, dass ich den ultimativen Energiespender dabei hatte, nämlich kalifornische Sultaninen (ergo ein Stück Kindheit, weshalb die Verpackung ein eigenes Poserfoto verdient).

Ich rechnete mit ungefähr 3,5h Stunden Trail+Pause, am Ende war es doch weniger, da ich nicht den ganzen Weg zum Highway hinuntergelaufen bin. Der dröhnte schon von weitem den Berg rauf, weshalb ich vorher schon umkehrte.

Start war am Lady Bird Johnson Grove Rundweg, benannt nach der Dame, die sich für den Erhalt der Redwood-Bäume stark gemacht hat. Im Video sieht man nicht nur mit meinem üblichen Gewackel die wunderbare Natur, sondern kriegt auch einen Kurzabriss zur Chronologie eines Artenschutzes.

Nach ca 25 Minuten bog ich auf den steilen und wenig belaufenen In & Out-Trail namens Berry Glen ab und von hier an, gestehe ich, wird die 3D-Erinnerung brüchig, denn ich hing nur vor dem Handybildschirm, so groß war die Begeisterung all das mit meiner tollen - gefühlt - 1,2 Pixel-Handykamera einzufangen. Der Lady Bird-Abschnitt gehört wohl noch zum second-growth-Wald, d.h. hier wurde einmal alles gerodet und es gibt quasi keinen natürlich gewachsenen Wald bis auf wenige Beispiele. Siehe abfotografierte Texttafel oben. Der Berry Glen-Abschnitt (den ich wie gesagt leider verkehrt herum betreten habe - man sollte ihn am besten von Elk Meadow im Tal starten, dort den Highway überqueren und dann den bewaldeten Hang hinaufklettern - oben gibt es zahlreiche ruhig gelegene Rastmöglichkeiten) ist hingegen Urwald, die Bäume wesentlich älter und der Platz zwischen ihnen aufgeräumt mit vorwiegend Farn und wenig anderen Baumarten bewachsen. Trotz Handydemenz weiß ich zumindest noch, dass ich in einem Baum stand und einen misslungenen 360-Grad-Sprungkick hätte machen können - es wäre locker Platz dafür gewesen. Ich sah einen umgestürzten Stamm quer über dem Wanderpfad, auf dem eine Tanne/Douglasie (?) wuchs und deren Wurzeln wie dicke Schlangen an diesem Stamm entlangwuchsen. Ich sah auch eine Bananenschnecke - und nein, das Foto ist nicht farblich nachbearbeitet. Eine ältere Dame, die mir begegnete, erzählte begeistert, dass sie nach "ripe bananas" sucht, also Bananenschnecken mit braunen Punkten, denn die seien selten geworden. Wir geraten ins Palavern, denn ich merke, dass sie viel über die Gegend weiß und sie antwortet mir bereitwillig und ausschweifend alle Fragen. Sie erzählt, dass die Redwoods deshalb so gut an der pazifischen Küste wachsen, da sie den trockenen Boden mögen aber auf den feuchten Nebel, der morgens bis in die Mittagsstunde die Hänge hinaufzieht, angewiesen sind. Die Redwood-Borke ist schwer brennbar, denn ihr Harz besteht im Gegensatz zu Fichten und Tannen aus überwiegend Wasser. "Combustion", sagt sie Dame lachend, "takes a long time". Während also in Waldbränden die meiste Flora den Flammen zum Opfer fällt, haben die roten Riesen eine gute Überlebenschance. Man sieht viele Redwoods mit Brandspuren: Sie sind von innen komplett ausgehöhlt, aber die lebensnotwendige Borke ist erhalten - der Baum lebt weiter. Die Frau möchte noch wissen, wo ich herkomme und rührt, in der Annahme ich sei wohl noch Studentin, die Werbetrommel für national park volunteering (Freiwilligenarbeit im Nationalpark). Aber sagt dann auch, dass sie bis ins Rentenalter in Kalifornien und Arizona als Volunteer tätig gewesen sei. Sie spricht mit einem Feuer in ihren Augen, den ich bei vielen Amerikanern, denen ich über den Weg gelaufen bin, bislang vermisse.

#redwoods #kalifornien #wandern #waldbrand kalifornien #waldwandern

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Harz National Park (2) (3) by Sebastian Berbalk

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Harzer Bergwiesen. Harz mountain meadows. Moorwildnis im Nationalpark Harz. Moorland wilderness in the Harz National Park.

#cw arachnophobia #spider web #meadow #mountains #germany #cloudy #green #plantlife

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📍 Harz 🗓 29.10.2022 🎞️ Kodak E100 📷 Leica M7 🖨️ EPSON V500 #filmphotography #filmcamera #photography #leica #germany #35mmphotography #35mmfilm （在 Harz National Park） https://www.instagram.com/p/Cok8XEMLg6x/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Brocken spectre, Bulgaria

In today’s photograph we present the ghostly image of a Brocken spectre at Central Balkan National Park, Bulgaria. Despite appearances, there’s nothing paranormal about a Brocken spectre. It’s the magnified shadow of an observer cast in midair upon a cloud opposite a strong light source. Brocken spectres are rare but climb a mountain at dawn up to the misty slopes and you may be fortunate enough to witness the effect.

While the spectre, also known as a Brocken bow, mountain spectre or spectre of the Brocken, can appear anywhere in which conditions are right, the thick fogs of the Brocken, a peak in the Harz Mountains in Germany, have created a local legend from which the phenomenon gets its name. The Brocken spectre was observed and described by Johann Silberschlag in 1780 and has since been recorded often in literature about the region.

#bulgaria #central balkan national park #brocken spectre