FR - Elsass

In order to adapt this tour for this weekend, I had to dig deep into my "planned" list because it had been on it for a long time.

For friends of Alsace, it makes sense to spread the (actually) 32km over two days, to look for a place to stay on the French side and to make it a "pleasure hike", so to speak… read more

After a delicious French dinner and a thorough breakfast, we got back on track and first took the route to Obersteinbach. There we found one of the designated "Jardins d'Alsace" (Hortus Hymenoptera) by chance before we actually resumed our tour. From there we went to the cliffs above and the Amsbourg… read more

A trip into the past and highlight of a long-awaited weekend ... (sorry for the 100+ pictures)

Almost five years ago - on our first family overnight weekend in Alsace (and before my komoot time) - we ran the "Four Castles Tour". Today three of the four castles were on our way again. With some deja vues… read more

On Sunday we went back to Grendelbruch - pick up the car - of course in a different way than the day before. The tour over Rosheim was actually planned because of the conveniently located crèperie ... but which then closed. After all, there was calming ice 😉 at the bakery and other remarkable places… read more

For a long time we had been looking forward to finally being able to drive back to Alsace with the Corona loosening. This weekend it was finally time - a weekend in Obernai, which could be combined with two nice tours (to run down the calories from the good French dinner - and drinks 🧐 - down 😄).

The… read more

Starting point of our tour was the "Parking du Lac Verte" at Seestaettle.

After climbing over the ski slope behind the Ferme Auberge Seestaettle we crossed the nature reserve "Tanet-Gazon du Faing" via the GR5. After the descent on the north side of the Lac Blanc we went back past Lac Noir, Lac du Forlet… read more

Round hike between Hohneck and Kastelberg. Starting from the central car park in Mittlach, the ascent goes through the Worms valley to Lac du Fischbœdle and Lac de Schiessrothried at the foot of Hohneck (red bar, GR5).

Then comes a somewhat adventurous section (blue bar), which leads over boulder fields… read more

Great round hike at Saverne. One highlight is hunting the next. The parking lot at the Maison Forestier Haberacker was chosen as the starting point to stop in at noon in Haut Barr - but there are several places where you can park.

You can roughly follow the GR53 (red bar), then the red triangle and then… read more

Circular walk starting from the car park at the 'Maison forestière du Nideck'.

The komoot app wanted to guide us several times to nonexistent (or non-visible?) Routes, hence the route order: red "-" to Schneeberg summit. Descent via red "+" to Col des Pandours. Then yellow-white-yellow vertical beams… read more

Round hike near Wangenbourg / Freudeneck.

There are several entry points: Freudeneck, Wangenbourg and a hiking parking lot about 1km from Freudeneck near the Grotto Mencke.

Unfortunately, the maps of the kommod app in this area is deficient, so that even wide forest roads are not shown.

Therefore, a detailed… read more

The tour starts at the parking lot (Mairie) in Ottrott and runs mostly on forest roads and narrow paths. On the Mount Odilien there is much more to see than the monastery, so you should take some time after the quite strenuous climb and take one of the circular walks. Enough food to eat - the monastery… read more

Small round over the Kastelberg and around the Silberberg starting from Andlau. After climbing through vineyards, the path leads past two castle ruins and a viewpoint.



Halfway there is a rest stop (Auberge du Hungerplatz, open 12-17 clock).

With announced (80%) rain a small round through the forest at Gérardmer.

Without previous information, a small pearl has opened in the Pheny Valley, so that the two small showers were quickly forgotten: If you like the Monbachtal or the Karlstal, here comes at his expense. The stream is crossed in many… read more

Finally great weather in prospect, finally the Coro*UPS* numbers are going down and finally a weekend in Alsace again.

Our Saturday tour is an unexpected hit: 24 km of narrow paths - if they are forest paths, then at least natural, blueberry fields, beautiful forest meadows, imposing sandstone ruins… read more

We completed our Sunday tour in an area that has often caught my eye when planning and driving to previous tours: the area between the mountain passes "Col du Pigeonnier" and "Col du Pfaffenschlick".

A mixed forest that is wonderful for hikers with many kilometers of narrow forest paths runs through the… read more