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Hiking adventures
What to pack, what to bring, what not to bring. Every blog out there will rightfully tell you to pack as lightly as possible, and I whole-heartedly agree. However, back when a certain pandemic hit, I had just spent loads of money for long-distance hiking gear to be perfectly equipped for the John-Muir-Trail (s. here)…
The Fishermen’s Trail is considered one of the most beautiful coastal trails in the world. So I figured, I’ll take it to the test. So in less than 24 hours, I am on my way to Portugal, ready to cover the famous coastal hike – officially 226.5 km, divided into 13 segment, I made some…
Luckily, the mountains are ancient and when we’re long gone they will still continue to be. And that, dear readers, is my philosophical lame excuse as to why more than half a year has passed since our mouther-daughter hiking trip. A giant leap for mankind but a significant fraction of a second for the Alps!…
(For the non-German speaking readers: the first headline is a very bad Dad joke. Kalauer, Kalauer, as we like to say. You should not be surprised) My mum and I went on a holiday together. Just the two us. Six days in a hotel in Davos, Switzerland, with half-board and plenty of mountains to conquer!…
I have never seen Into the Wild and I have never seen Wild – somehow I feel the need to make that absolutely clear, maybe because both movies caused a wave of new hikers on their self-finding paths, and especially the latter resulted in female hiker numbers rocketing through the sky. I’m not saying that…
This is a new section on the blog! For a big, big endeavour. And also a big, big maybe. Due to the current events aka Covid, it is absolutely uncertain if I will be even allowed to travel and do what I’ve been planning for months now. But hope is (second) last to die and…