Category: Hiking the Alps
With or Without Camping
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High season, rising heat and me aiming for touristic highlights like mountains and castles – all solved with shortened nights and lack of sleep! It is a Saturday in mid August around 6:00 a.m., when I turn towards the Chiemgau (once more), getting me on today’s hiking route by 7 o’clock. Heavy rain has wrecked…
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Here I go again, uphill on a holiday Tuesday! There is hardly anything more rewarding than a spontaneous free day in the middle of the week, with bright summer weather and beautiful mountains around. (Except for real travels, says a low voice in the back of my head, but I am willing to ignore it…
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It is amazing how my surrounding knows me. As soon as I head South towards the Alps, my favourite radio station plays Kate Bush with something about “running up that hill”, causing a blurred picture half way between dreaming, driving and anticipating today’s hike. In fact, today’s pathways are more grounded. I appear to be…
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Years and years, I regarded myself being unsporting, yet happen to move quite a lot. Now my learning of the C-year is: I am sporty! A real tough athletic wonderwoman, running and climbing, swimming and dancing, skating and cycling and all the rest. Being locked down by a series of incidents, I missed the regular…
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It does not take much in the sense of quantity to have a good time. But it takes high-quality friends! My dear camping + hiking + action + good-time friend Barbara offers to take my hiking equipment in her backpack, leaving my (still injured) shoulders weightless. Of course, I strip the necessities of the tour…
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Es wird Zeit, die erfahrene Bergfreundin aus der glorreichen Nepal-Ära an die Seite zu holen für eine schöne Herbst-Tour: Die Hochplatte im Chiemgau soll es heute werden, und hinterrücks vorbei an allen Staus beamen wir uns in die Bergwelt. Today’s destination is the peak of the Hochplatte and, together with my dear hiking buddy from…
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2019 is one of those years when you learn to use each and every bright day for summer action. You never know when rain and cold will take over the local weather, hence you better get going soon. Today’s destination is Innzell, a small and charming village that tries to attract some leftover tourists from…
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…und dann war da noch mein Lieblingsberg. Derjenige, der sich halbwegs in der Nähe befindet und den ich annährend 100 mal fotografiert habe. Die zackige Spitze, die schroffen Felsen, die markante Form: Die Alpspitze! …and then there is this particular mountain that made it on almost 100 pictures of mine. The serrated peak, the craggy…
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How to enjoy the mountains all for yourself? Combine bad weather forecast with unexpected sun! Zwischen Schlüssel-Übergabe (gegen die Wohnungsnot in der Stadt!) und der Abfahrt nach Sizilien bleibt gerade genug Zeit für meinen ersten Klettersteig. Eigentlich unseren ersten Klettersteig: Barbara ist mit von der Partie und zieht mal wieder Männer an und aus (überholender…
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Schnee oder Sonne? Wandern oder Camping? Natur oder Kultur?? “Ja” zu allem, und los geht’s. Womit geklärt wäre, wie man eine Couch-Potatoe wie mich in die Alpen bringt: man fährt mitsamt der Couch hin! Und mitBarbara 😊. Snow or Sun? Hiking or Camping? Nature or Culture? The answer is a clear “yes”, and off we…
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