hello!
thank you guys - it is beautiful here indeed
that was also why i decided to start exploring those forests and came to the whole bushcraft concept. now i wish the forests were bigger and the whole area less populated haha
cheers
The trick is to avoid those few "hotspots" were all the tourist gather. they normally dont stray that far from the well-known trails. A few hundert meter away the paths are usually quite empty.
Get some good maps online here:
http://www.lv-bw.de/lvshop2/start_ns.asp?openkey=PRODUKTE&keyinfo=&os=Win32&mapw=500
Or buy them direct at the "Katasteramt":
Städtisches Vermessungsamt Heidelberg
Gaisbergstraße 7
69115 Heidelberg
Tel.: 06221 / 58-24000 oder 58-24010
Fax: 06221 / 58-24900
email:
Vermessungsamt@Heidelberg.de
TK25 or TK50 come in excellent quality, also showing the coloured marks of the different trails.
At my favourite spot, the Frankenstein, a hill with a like-named castle,
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burg_Frankenstein_(Bergstraße)
visitors/hiker park near the castle, then walk into the wood and back.
This pic was taken 10min on foot from the castle`s big parking place. It sits right between three trails, each a mere 20m away from where I made my fire: