Explore beautiful winter hikes in Germany’s Harz Mountains

This was an unforgettable tour! Not only to escape the crowds, but also because the weather forecast was so good and I had so little sun for the pictures for my hiking guide "Winterwandern im Harz". So we set off after dark. Our destination: the Wurmberg summit, the highest point in Lower Saxony. The… read more

Oh, today was something very special 🤩. A snowshoe tour in the Harz foothills with up to half a meter of fresh snow, crazy! I was probably the first to walk my path around part of the Teufelsmauer after the snowfall of the last few days: I had to fight my way through a lot of snow. On the way back on… read more

To kick off the new year, I'm back with a fine tour from the Harz Mountains. After I let myself be fattened up over the holidays, gave myself some time to switch off and then made many new exciting plans, I had to lace up my hiking boots again yesterday.



While gray is the dominant color in the rest of… read more

The year is still young, but Lotte and I already have more than 250 kilometers on the clock. We currently spend almost every day in the snow, sit in the van in the evenings and as I write, the best hiking dog in the world devotes itself to his beauty sleep. Why all that? I am writing a new book for Rother… read more

Lotte and I have covered almost 100 kilometers in the last four days in the Harz Mountains and are now back home full of wonderful impressions. The "duty" is almost fulfilled: We have already put together almost 40 tours for the hiking guide "Winterwandern Harz" for the Rother Bergverlag. Now comes the… read more

How I was looking for (and found) winter today. 😁



Finally something like a winter hike. I admit I'm a little impatient when it comes to winter, but today I finally found my happiness in the Harz mountains. We climbed from Schierke to where, logically speaking, there had to be the most snow: on the Brocken… read more

Short winter greetings from the Harz Mountains. ❄️🎅🏼❄️



When the first snow falls in the Harz Mountains, the Acker mountain range is usually beautifully white. The hike took us between 700 and 850 meters to the Hanskuehnenburg. The cool, clear air was simply wonderful. The first part of the tour runs… read more

Of course we had to see for ourselves whether there was snow in the Harz Mountains 😉. That's a stark contrast: last week in Osnabrücker Land we caught the last mild day of autumn, today we're trudging through the snow.



It has snowed a lot in the Upper Harz for the last few days, but not enough to make… read more

In the cold season it is often difficult to get your butt off. After my hiking holiday in January, however, I had resolved not to let the wind and cold hold me back. As a Lower Saxon who likes to hike in the mountains, the Harz Mountains are a natural hiking area.



As we start hiking, trembling, someone… read more