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    1. Information board Weißenbach – sinkhole loop from Bühlchen bei Weißenbach

    7.03km

    02:02

    190m

    180m

    Moderate hike. Good fitness required. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels.

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    Moderate hike. Good fitness required. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels.

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    Easy hike. Great for any fitness level. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels.

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    March 25, 2024

    Dolines are karst funnels. So far I have only noticed them in the Rhön and I thought it was nice to discover this one on the hike.

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      A doline (from the Slavic dolina "valley"), also called a sinkhole, karst funnel or karst hole, is a chimney, funnel or bowl-shaped depression with a mostly round or elliptical floor plan in karst areas. Its diameter usually varies between 2 and 200 meters, but can also be more than a kilometer. Its depth ranges from 2 to more than 300 meters. Dolines give karst areas their characteristic appearance.[1] They can occur in high density: a maximum of 782 dolines per square kilometer have been described in the Alps,[2] 187 in the Taurus.[3] Solution dolines always predominate over shaft dolines. Such doline landscapes form a so-called polygonal karst, in which the catchment area of the individual dolines is often interlocked with the others and these can thus fill the entire space of a landscape.

      Source: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doline#:~:text=Eine%20Doline%20(von%20slawisch%20dolina,mehr%20als%20einen%20Kilometer%20betragen.

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        March 9, 2024

        There is often a beautiful view when the weather is nice

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          Elevation 570 m

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          Location: Großalmerode, Werra-Meißner-Kreis, Kassel District, Regierungsbezirk Kassel, Hesse, Germany

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