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Stall-Feldnerhütte. Kreuzeck

Day 11. Yesterday I slept already at 8.30 pm. At 6.30am my alarm wakes me up. I have another long day ahead of me with more than 1800m altitude to hike uphill. Start is again easy with about 5km in the valley to Rangersdorf. From there it becomes much more steep but manageable for me….

Fragranter Schutzhaus – Stall

Day 10. I wake up to sunshine. Again the camp wasn’t even half full and I could sleep well. I pack up and as I don’t see the guys at 7h20 I decide to start. Up they are much faster anyway and they only make a round trip to the Sadnig summit from the hut…

Rauris – Fragranter Schutzhaus

Day 8. It rained heavily the whole night but luckily when I get up at 6am, the rain stopped. It is very foggy and cloudy though. The hotel took care of me nicely and a huge breakfast awaits me. I pack the bread rolls for later and only eat some yoghurt and muesli. I start…

Crossing the Alps South. Maria Alm – Rauris

Day 6. All you need in life are good friends. While relaxing at the nicely decorated Jufenalm, Robert manages to fix the corrupted map files on my GPS, I can play with the kids and am driven around in the car. A three courses dinner sets my calorie count right again and sleeping in a…

Crossing the Alps South. Berchtesgaden – Maria Alm

Day 3. Next morning it is difficult to get up. Tired, stiff, but with lots of plans for today I force myself up. The first part is an easy stroll along the Königsberger Ache (a small river) to the lake Königssee. A quick climb up to the famous Malerwinkel for the view and I already…

Crossing the Alps South. Salzburg – Berchtesgaden

If you want to cross the Alps by foot there are plenty of possibilities. After some research I settled on two different crossings. First, in 500km from Salzburg to Triest, then back from Venice to Munich. Salzburg – Triest is a rather new hiking trip, but I was very happy to receive a lot of…

Of snow and ice

To start my off time, I decided to take a glacier hiking training. I wanted to become more comfortable with hiking in snowy conditions and explore if more ‘technical’ mountains (where you have to know how to hike with crampons and how to use a pickaxe) would be within my reach. After frantic last weeks…

Mammutmarsch 2016 | 100km in <24h

Anfang letzten Jahres habe ich in einer Wanderzeitschrift über 24h Wanderungen in den Alpen gelesen und mich im Internet auf die Suche nach Ähnlichem in Berlin gemacht. Beim Mammutmarsch bin ich fündig geworden… 100km in 24h klingt enorm, eine neue Herausforderung! Also Freunde motiviert, angemeldet, etwas trainiert, bis ich dann aus gesundheitlichen Problemen meine Teilnahme…

Wie schafft man es 100km am Stück zu wandern?

Ein paar Gedanken dazu, wie zumindest ich es geschafft habe die 100km zu wandern… Vieles ist sehr subjektiv, grade beim Thema Schuhe und Blasen muss jeder die für sich funktionierende Lösung finden. Training Ich gehe seit Jahren regelmäßig wandern und auch gerne längere Strecken. Ende letzten Jahres war ich auf dem Harzer Hexenstieg und dem…

I want to ride my bicycle | From Berlin to Usedom

Hello sea! I was back at the Baltic Sea last weekend. This time it was hard work to get there though, biking 330km from Berlin to Zinnowitz. I couldn’t have enjoyed it more, stunned by the beauty of Germany’s varied landscape. Day 1: Berlin Pankow – Prenzlau, 132km Our starting point to the long-distance cycling…

Hiking trips around Berlin

Berlin is a rather green city in the sense of parks, forrests, lakes, rivers…. and thanks to the great infrastructure you can also be fairly quickly in Brandenburg to explore even more hiking trails. I want to share a few of my highlights in and around Berlin. I have done a few hikes over the…

A long weekend at the sea

What I don’t like about living in Berlin, is that it is very far from the mountains. What I love about Berlin, is that it is rather close to the Baltic Sea. A 3 hours drive by car and you can enjoy a weekend breathing fresh, salty air, eating fresh or smoked fish, listening to…