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8,331 km
1324:34 h
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- NicoDecember 23, 2025
...Just a quick note beforehand: with this lovely hiking weather, I'm making a little room for the upcoming, colorful Christmas plates full of treats... otherwise, getting up that first hill in the new year will be a real slog... the coming days will add up... to put it mildly.
It was quiet in the woods
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- NicoDecember 18, 2025
...a short loop in the Odenwald highlands on the Nibelungensteig trail, mostly on older forest roads or trails, occasionally on gravel paths suitable for small-scale, tractor-assisted forestry work, hardly any roads for today's heavy machinery... lovely!
There were one or two "descents" from the "high
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- NicoDecember 14, 2025
...what more is there to write about this particular tour in the rocky landscape? It's all been read, seen, and many hiked already... a delight in any weather... sometimes more, sometimes less challenging for a variety of reasons... too warm... too steep... too slippery due to the wet roots and the amount
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- NicoDecember 13, 2025
A little something extra to enjoy during the pre-Christmas season... the treetop walkway is festively illuminated, with some special lighting effects.
From the upper, slightly vibrating platform, you have a fantastic panoramic view of the Saar Loop and the warmly lit villages in the surrounding area
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- NicoDecember 13, 2025
...the solution to the riddle... hidden today behind thick fog and initially behind damp, marshy meadows... a section of the Westwall, built here from 1939 onwards as the Orscholz Barrier... tank barriers in the shape of dragon's teeth, a concrete bulwark, roadblocks... Czech hedgehogs, and in the swampy
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- NicoDecember 8, 2025
Sorry... no time for much writing... otherwise the mud will dry solid...😂... it was a wild mess today
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- NicoDecember 4, 2025
Today's hike through the slightly wintry forest between Habichsthal, Heinrichsthal, and Jakobsthal—not forgetting Heigenbrücken—developed, after initially stubbornly ignoring the colorful fluttering strips of paper that indicated nearby forestry work and the associated feeling of walking on a military
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...today a challenging hike along slightly frozen and snow-dusted paths, over slippery roots and across frozen, slick, wobbly stones through an icy stream, up to the Trödelsteine, a basalt formation on the mountain, a boulder field of feldspar basalt, complete with a summit cross and summit register
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