Since they were getting picked up to go home, it didn’t matter if it was there or at Alexanderschanze. Daniella and Anna Maria decided to call it quits here and have a beer. a great thing about trail friends – it means you don’t only have selfies from the trail! (PS thru-hiker fashion is a thing)Īt the end of 26 kilometers, we arrived at the Zuflucht (a restaurant/hotel appropriately named “retreat”), where we met Freiburg guy and Danish guy. And it also paralleled the Schwarzwaldhochstaße, a beautiful highway drive through the forest for cars and an unpleasant caucauphony for hiker’s ears. Not their fault, but why are we not on a hiking path for HIKERS? Perhaps I hadn‘t eaten enough towards the end of the journey and was getting very cranky, but the last half was not often on nice trail. We also had to jump out of the way of E-mountain bikers a lot. After the halfway mark, the trail did not go up or down as steeply anymore but these roads were kind of boring. And we saw a snake! A real live snake! Weekends on the Westweg are BusyĪ lot of the trail today was on these hard-packed forestry roads. We hiked up two ski slopes, went the wrong way again (due to construction and rerouting of the trail, not our fault! Many others were confused too), passed several other huts with restaurants, sat on the ground to take a break when we couldn‘t find any benches, sat on the first bench we saw in a heath up on the mountain, and had a lot of panorama views which I could barely enjoy because I was so tired. Much of the rest of the way gets a bit blurry because Anna Maria, Daniella, and I were deep in conversation the whole time. MummelseeĪt the Mummelsee, I saw my forth gate of the Westweg. He walked with us to the lake, I think a bit lonely for company as he was staying in a nearby hut and completing day hikes on his own. We lost the red rhombus briefly, but a man told us how we could reach the Mummelsee instead. It was a quick walk to the Hornisgrinde restaurant where we peered over the edge to see the Mummelsee below. He continued on and I chatted with Daniella and Anna Maria before we decided to head on together. When I came down, the two women I had met the day before were arriving at the top with a Danish guy I had seen previously on the trail. There was a squat tower to see the view, so I went up. I continued following the path up the steep hill until I reached the Hornisgrinde peak at 1166, the highest peak thus far and for the day. I arrived at the Ochsenstall hut where a lot of the guys I knew from the trail had planned to stay the night before. This was an enjoyable path through the woods over tree roots and rocks. another stunning view of the Black Forest from the Westweg Hiking Friends! I would have been wrong if I had kept going, so I‘m glad I stopped to ask. A woman answered that I had to go up around the ski lift and onto a path in the woods there. Unsure, I walked back towards the Drei Tannen guesthouse where people were having breakfast on picnic benches and asked if anyone knew which way. When I left, I wandered through Unterstmatt, almost taking the wrong path. It’s where I had the best Käsespätzle and breakfast was huge (gotta satiate that hiker hunger!). I definitely recommend staying at this place, even if you decide to stay in the Unterstandshütten most of the way. Oy! Today was a long day! It started with excellent breakfast at the Hochkopfstub. Day 4 – Unterstmatt to Alexanderschanze – 29 km The trail is Germany’s oldest long distance hike, traveling 280 kilometers through the Black Forest in the state of Baden-Württemberg. I hiked the trail in 12 days and this post is about days 4, 5 and 6 – the Westweg from Unterstmatt to Hausach. Just joining me on the Westweg? You can read all about the first three days of this Quality Hike in part 1.
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