Travel – Mark Pospesel (Coding and Other Stuff)

A foggy morning in Amsterdam

View down an Amsterdam canal on a foggy morning. The canal is flanked by house boats, leafless trees, and narrow row houses.

Jungfrau at sunset

The last light of day on the Jungfrau above Wengen

The Jungfrau, a rocky and snow peak in the Swiss Alps, with a few small peaks reflecting the rosy light of sunset.

Rivendell

Lauterbrunnen valley, the inspiration for J.R.R. Tolkien’s Rivendell, is quite literally a “riven dell” — it looks as if the gods clove the earth here with a giant axe.

Landscape view of a steep-sided valley surrounded by snowy mountains on a sunny day.

Wengen office

Office for the next three days. Nicht schlecht.

Laptop on a small table in front of a window with a view of snow-covered mountains in the Swiss Alps.

Kleine Scheidegg – Grindelwald hike

Winter hike: Kleine Scheidegg – Alpiglen – Brandegg – Grindelwald Grund, 10.4km, 18m ascent / 1,132m descent, 2°C ☀️ with a stop for lunch at Alpiglen. Fantastic weather again. Pity I have to work tomorrow.

A wide, groomed ski piste against a backdrop of snow-covered mountains under a clear blue sky.

Morning view from the Alpenruhe

Morning view

Fir trees, snow-covered buildings, snow-capped peaks under a blue sky.

Männlichen – Kleine Scheidegg hike

Winter hike: Männlichen to Kleine Scheidegg, 6.5km, 272m ascent/433m descent, 2h, 1°C ☀️. Beautiful hike on a glorious day. Most of the times we’ve come here in winter the weather has been miserable.

Snow-covered mountain peaks Snowy mountain slope catching the last golden rays of sunlight at the end of the day.

Wengen visit

Excited to spend 4 nights in Wengen, a small car-free village in the Swiss Alps.

Snow-covered village on a shelf above a steep valley with a backdrop of snow-capped peaks.

Wenneralp Winterwanderung

Winter hike Wengen to Wengneralp: 6.8 km, 700m ascent, 2h:30m, 2°C ☁️. I opted out of skiing today due to blisters on my shins from my ski boots. View of the Jungfrau from Wengneralp.

The Jungfrau mountain covered in snow and ice