Berny's photos

Looking to the East the path leads in direction to the Zwölferkofel (Croda dei Toni, 3094 m) in the background. The "Tre Cime" to the left are not visible, therefore a PiP from an ascent to the Cima Grande (the middle one) in 1978. - scanned slides, Minolta X700 7. Strada per il Rifugio Auronzo, 2330 m, Italy - day 2

Looking back down to Auronzo di Cadore from a detour up to Rifugio Auronzo. It's not really a "pass", but I count it as no. 7 of the "Alpine passes"-tour ;-) - scanned slide, Minolta X700 7. Strada per il Rifugio Auronzo, 2330 m, Italy - day 2

From a detour up to Rifugio Auronzo. The view goes to Monte Cristallo and the PiP shows an ascent in 1987. - scanned slide, Minolta X700 7. Strada per il Rifugio Auronzo, 2330 m, Italy - day 2

Drei Zinnen, seen from Lago di Misurina. Afterwards we made a detour up to the Rifugio Auronzo (2326 m) at the foot of the "Tre Cime". From here you can see only Cima Ovest and Cima Grande. - scanned slide, Minolta X700 HFF and a happy weekend, everyone!

The highest mountain behind the village of "Auronzo di Cadore" is "Croda dei Toni" (Zwölferkofel), 3094 m, Sextener Dolomiten. At the left end of the rocky mountains are "Tre Cime Di Lavaredo" (Drei Zinnen), 2999 m. - scanned slide, Minolta X700

The river Ansiei has been dammed up in the 30's to the Lago di Santa Caterina. - scanned slides, Minolta X700

scanned slide, Minolta X700

6. Passo della Mauria, 1298 m, Italy - day 2 scanned slide, Minolta X700

"Via Tolmezzo" bridge across the Fella river, seen from SS52 Highway bridge. - scanned slide, Minolta X700 see image before for details!

Crossing the Fella river (a tributary of Fiume Tagliamento), which meanders freely in his wide bed. A new album is opened with this image, named "Alpine passes - 1997". A trip on a "Kawasaki VN15 Classic" motorcycle from Graz to Nizza over a lot of Alpine passes in Austria, Italy, Switzeland and France. Most of the images are new scans of slides, taken with my Minolta X700 and geotagged. As you can imagine, this motorcycle is not really the best for mountain roads. The Kawasaki had 1470 ccm (which was the largest engine I ever had), 64 PS, about 320 kg weight, build year 1996. Starting in Graz I forgot to put a film in the camera, so this bridge was the point of enlightenment ;-)) Some passes already crossed at this point with the empty camera: 1. Soboth, 1070 m, Austria - day 1 2. Wurzenpass, 1073 m, Austria-Sloveina - day 1 3. Vršič-Pass, 1611 m, Slovenia - day 1 4. Predilpass, 1156 m, Slovenia-Italy - day 2 5. Neveasattel, 1195 m, Italy - day 2

The last image of the recent "Motomania"-series. Probably for most of you it was a little bit boring, but I wanted to document all the bikes since 1972, which I never did before. Unfortunately there were two unforeseeable "events" in my life in 1990 and 2000, which forced me to sell almost all of these oldtimers. For the following motorcycles which I owned, I couldn't find any photos: 1935 Puch 500 V (incomplete) 1936 Puch 200 1937 Puch 250 R 1938 BMW R66 (incomplete) 1939 Zündapp K 500 1939 Meister/Sachs 98 1940 Puch 350 GS 1955 Triumph Boss 350

This is a 1939 Puch S4, 248 ccm double piston engine, 8.5 PS. - scanned slide, Minolta X700

1956 NSU Supermax, 247 ccm, 18 PS, 126 km/h. - scanned slide, Minolta X700

This is a very rare model, a 1930 Puch 250 Sport, also called Puch 30S, with bronze cylinder head, double piston engine, 248 ccm, 7 PS, 100 km/h. Frame and engine no. 45612. The image was taken during restoration. I found no photo with the completed machine. - scanned (bad) photo

This is a 1928 Matchless T3, found as a wreck (see PiP's), sold in 1986. - scanned slide

The NSU Quick was built 1936 to 1953, 98 ccm, 3 PS, 60 km/h. - scanned photo