I just finished a one-week hike through the german "Odenwald", completing the newly extended "Nibelungensteig" (= trail of the Nibelung) which leads from Freudenberg/Main to the "Bergstrasse" (= Rhine valley)
http://www.lorsch.de/nibelungensteig/karte-neu.php?navanchor=1010006
it was a fantastic experience of seven days of walking and not having to talk, except in the morning and evening.
Wheather was a mixed bag, some cold days with a little bit of rain for the odd hour and two really warm ones at the end.
Telling the truth, right now, I cant stand hiking anymore and am happy to be back on the bike. (But the next two-day-hike is already planned for late july)
Since I am neither hard nor healthy enough to walk long days, I decided on seven days with 15-20Km, totalling -on my in parts different route- ca 115Km and 4300m of elevation. I slept in various inns along the way and tried to carry a minimum of gear alongside the daily food and 2l of water: 8.5-9.0Kg total and this included 0.7Kg of medicaments and orthopaedic aids to keep feet and knees going.
My camera was an Olympus Pen E-P1 with a 2.8/17mm "Pancake"(=34mm) fixed lens, a small and lightweight combo.
Here are some pics:
The strangest thing I encountered was this oversize "wardrobe", containig loo and shower:
landscape and type of trail changed constantly:
A typical choice of trails at the Nibelungensteig. the foot.numbing, hard-graveled fireroad is left aside and a nice, soft trail choosen
I`d rather have only one set of underwear then be without a choice of headgear
Told you so:
Just to keep the furnace stocked:
And no Goretex!
The remains of a medival acces-road led to what was left after the peasant rising of 1525 of the biggest castle of the Staufer-era, Burg Wildenberg. Part of the "Parcival" was written here and this huge "Palas" inspired the author to his description of the "castle of the crail"
An essential at night:
Whenever possible, I stopped for coffee and cake, after all I wasnt on the run
A very catholic area:
The background looks familiar?
The builders mother, a widow, wedded in second marriage the Duke of Kent
On of the oldest religious pictoral monuments of the Odenwald,
already grown into the tree after more than 500 years
calvinist immigrants brought this burial-custom into just one village
The "Felsenmeer"
and leftovers of roman stonemasons
http://www.lorsch.de/nibelungensteig/karte-neu.php?navanchor=1010006
it was a fantastic experience of seven days of walking and not having to talk, except in the morning and evening.
Wheather was a mixed bag, some cold days with a little bit of rain for the odd hour and two really warm ones at the end.
Telling the truth, right now, I cant stand hiking anymore and am happy to be back on the bike. (But the next two-day-hike is already planned for late july)
Since I am neither hard nor healthy enough to walk long days, I decided on seven days with 15-20Km, totalling -on my in parts different route- ca 115Km and 4300m of elevation. I slept in various inns along the way and tried to carry a minimum of gear alongside the daily food and 2l of water: 8.5-9.0Kg total and this included 0.7Kg of medicaments and orthopaedic aids to keep feet and knees going.
My camera was an Olympus Pen E-P1 with a 2.8/17mm "Pancake"(=34mm) fixed lens, a small and lightweight combo.
Here are some pics:
The strangest thing I encountered was this oversize "wardrobe", containig loo and shower:
landscape and type of trail changed constantly:
A typical choice of trails at the Nibelungensteig. the foot.numbing, hard-graveled fireroad is left aside and a nice, soft trail choosen
I`d rather have only one set of underwear then be without a choice of headgear
Told you so:
Just to keep the furnace stocked:
And no Goretex!
The remains of a medival acces-road led to what was left after the peasant rising of 1525 of the biggest castle of the Staufer-era, Burg Wildenberg. Part of the "Parcival" was written here and this huge "Palas" inspired the author to his description of the "castle of the crail"
An essential at night:
Whenever possible, I stopped for coffee and cake, after all I wasnt on the run
A very catholic area:
The background looks familiar?
The builders mother, a widow, wedded in second marriage the Duke of Kent
On of the oldest religious pictoral monuments of the Odenwald,
already grown into the tree after more than 500 years
calvinist immigrants brought this burial-custom into just one village
The "Felsenmeer"
and leftovers of roman stonemasons
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