My mate and went on a longer hike today. About 24 km in to the minute seven hours. We started after lunch and the sun was beating down with 22°C. My cattleman hat served me well. 51 shows the Wasserberg (“water mountain”) on the left (also in 52) and the Fuchseck (“fox corner”) on the right (also in 53). I should have taken another distance shot from back home somewhere. But 03-05, 08, 15 and 21 show our backyard mountain Hohenstaufen. And in this one from yesterday you can see the Fuchseck to the left of the center.
At the Fuchseck summit a guy went down the steep mountain straight through the brush. So we thought, let’s take this beaten path, too. But there was none. We couldn’t figure out where he went and which route he took. We only heard the rustling of leaves and cracking of twigs and branches at the beginning when we were still taking photos up top. But we said, let’s try it anyway, when he manages it, we will, too. The North slope was about 70° steep and covered with 15 cm of leaves. Super slippery, we slid more than walked. But once committed, there was no easy way back up again. There were lots of sketchy sections and I wondered what the heck I was doing there. We had to brace ourselves with one or sometimes both hands on the slope. Then we saw the dude sitting in a tree and we continued our adventure downhill. 29-31 show the much easier parts closer to the bottom before we hit an official path.
Later we took a new well-graveled logging trail which then dead ended. So we then decided to walk through the tall grass in the forest to meet a parallel footpath. We survived much crazier terrain earlier. So what could possibly go wrong? This long patch of grass was an old, now probably abandonned path anyways. I misjudged the distance to the other path quite a bit and it took us much longer than anticipated. Finally, on the real path, I had collected ten ticks on my pants! Bloody bastards.
After the shower I now feel like a new person. I reckon I’ll find some great sleep tonight.
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org beautiful scenery!