This and the next page show pictures from our hike up the Gamsberg on Saturday, June XX, 2003.
	This is the main highway in these parts. The paved road turned into dust and gravel a few kilometers outside of Windhoek. This is the road from Windhoek to Walvis Bay on the coast. If we get enough work done, we might go check out the ocean this weekend.
	The picture is a little blurry because the car was bouncy, but here we are driving past the Weissenfels, and I wanted to try to get a picture of the farm from a distance.
	Here we're starting to get into the mountains. We left the Weissenfels a little after nine, and got to the trailhead by 10:40 AM.
	Here you can see two kudu in the lower left part of the image, as seen against a typical landscape for this part of the country.
	Another landscape. I found the rocks very impressive. To get to the Gamsberg, we got off the main road after only about 45 minutes, and spent the rest of the time driving along a very bumpy, rough, up-and-down one-lane track back up into the mountains.
	Here you can see one of the spectacular views with which we were constantly confronted. I loved the way you could see, framed between these two peaks, the view of the desert off in the distance.
	A particularly nice strech of road. The car was bouncing around far too much to take photos of the bad parts of the road.We saw a snake getting the heck out of the road near here, but I wasn't fast enough to photograph it.
	An interesting rock formation.
	About 20 km off the main road was the farm Weener. They have custody of the entrence to the Gamsberg, which actually does belong to the Max Planck Institut. Tourists (of which there are few) have to pay a small fee to go in and camp or hike. This is the entrance to the farm.
	Be careful about downloading this one -- it's huge. It's a 180 degree panorama shot of the mountain range.
	Another shot of the rocky terrain and the vast distances beyond.
	An interesting rocky hill.
	We had to drive through this cow stall to get to the trail head, which was just a few meters further down the road from here. I had to get out of the car to open and close a gate. The cows left me alone, though.
	As I was opening the gate, I heard this weird noise. I asked my colleagues if they heard it too, and they said oh, it's just dogs. I said it was unlike any dogs I'd ever heard, and then some motion caught the corner of my eye. I wish I had tried to take a picture, because there was a pack of baboons fighting across the rocks on the side of the Gamsberg. One even fell, but didn't seem hurt. It was a little nervewracking to see fighting baboons not far from where you plan to hike, but we never saw them again.
	More rocks and mountains.
	Here we are at the trail head. Dieter Horns from Heidelberg is in the front, and Eli and Carl are in the back.
	I saw another animal in these rocks -- it was like a woodchuck, and it scrabbled its way up a diagonal cleft between some rocks, ran along a ridge to the right, and then disappeared. I missed photographing it, but I liked the geometry of the rocks, so at least I got them.
	An interesting tree.
	This is the Gamsberg from the bottom of the trail. If you look near the top, to the right edge of the mountain, you can see a red scratch, zig-zagging its way along. That's where we were headed.
	A view back in the general direction we came from.
	Carl, looking out over the Khomas Highlands from part way up the mountain.
	The mountain range extending to the north west. From the HESS site, you can only see the tallest of these, on the right. I was struck by the way that so many of them had the same grain to the rocks.
	This is near the top. I liked the image of the sharp thistle with the hazy vista off behind it.
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