Westweg Day 11: Kendern – Basel
Last day of a trek is almost always bitter sweet. No matter if or how much your aching body wants to be done, no matter how much your brain tells you to celebrate… Continue reading
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Westweg Day 10: Hut Kinney – Kendern
The rain came unexpected. I was glad we put the tent fly on. We did it out of concern for condensation which we got none of but it saved us from jumping up… Continue reading
Westweg Day 9: Hotel Am Bach, Hinterzanten – Hut Kinney
Summer is fading. The colors slowly started to turn. The change was most visible in the open meadows bellow Feldberg, the highest mountain in Germany North of the Alps where the grasses were… Continue reading
Westweg Day 8: Gasthaus Hirschen – Hotel Am Bach, Hinterzanten
From the first morning steps, we knew we would sweat. Even at 8:30 a.m. the air was already warm. And still. Windmills on a hill near the trail did not move an inch… Continue reading
Westweg Day 7: Büchereck – Gasthaus Hirschen
Day seven in the Black Forest. I think we are getting a feel of what hiking the Appalachian Trail might be like as the path leads mostly through wooded areas with an occasional… Continue reading
Westweg Day 6: Hark – Büchereck
I have never seen more mushrooms in my life. Boletes. Shaggy parousels. More boletes. Hundreds of boletes. Do Germans ever go mushrooming? Seriously. I though I died and went to mycological heaven. We… Continue reading
Westweg Day 2: Birkenfeld – Dobel
After a lazy morning, we enjoyed a lazy day of trekking. The terrain wasn’t challenging and so we had plenty of opportunities to notice small things in our surroundings. First of all we… Continue reading
Westweg Day 1: Pforzheim – Birkenfeld
It can be said that the Westweg trail through Schwartzwald (Black Forest) is the origin of all German long-distance hiking trails, becoming the first designated path of its kind back in 1900. Since… Continue reading
HR – Day 1: Champex-Lac to Le Châble
“You really live up to your trail name,” Dave said as we packed today. We have just finished Tour du Mont Blanc yesterday afternoon and he was hoping for a rest day while… Continue reading
TMB – Day 10: Refuge Elena – Champex
The wind we thought would blow forever. There was no relief whatsoever during the night or in the morning. A thought occurred to me when we were packing the tent, carefully holding onto… Continue reading