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As always on April 1st 😉, I actually wanted to go back to Lobuche in the small Himalayas ⛰️ for a cozy after-work ride 🥨. However, the young mountaineer Reinhold Messner 🧌 unexpectedly called me with a rotary phone ☎️, who had gotten completely lost on Chomolungma 🏔 the previous year. For a reminder

My March march series continued with the new 🏅 Ultramarathon Potsdam 🏅 (formerly Berlin) and nearly 600 marching enthusiasts 🤠 had the same idea over 3️⃣ different distances. 182 ultras opted for 50 km, 225 for 75 km, and 147 "crazy ones" for a full 120 km 😲. The latter also started first at 8 a

Over 400 years ago, precisely at 7:42 and 33 seconds ⏰, three brave musketeers 🦸 set off on a dangerous duel ⚔️ with some villain 👽. It wasn't quite as dangerous for us 400 years later, but by pure coincidence, we started a new hiking adventure at the same time in the south of Brandenburg, in and around

The idea for a joint tour with @Einsamer Wanderer (Jörg) had been around for a long time, but so far it had always failed because of his ridiculous 8-pace, which would simply be waaaay too slow for me as a world-famous speed hiker. I would have had to wait for him all the time ... EDIT: Wait, his Komoot

As in the previous year, despite my on-call duty 🚨 (the ☎️ thankfully remained silent), the Gorbitzer Frühlingswanderung 🏅 in and around Dresden, organized by the Dresdner Wanderer- und Bergsteigerverein e.V. 🥾 and now taking place for the 22nd time, was to be the official start to my marching season

You wouldn't believe how much I needed and enjoyed this hike after Husti 😷, Schnupfi 🤧, the flat Bärwalder See loop 🌊, and the urban jungle of Leipzig 🏬 the day before 🤩🤩🤩. Finally, I was back to experiencing stunning rock formations 🪨, beautiful viewpoints 📸👌, and real elevation gain

Even though the marching season kicked off right on my doorstep with the Megamarsch Dresden 📢, I escaped to Leipzig by train 🚂 for a little private city exploration 🏬♻️. Purely by chance 😉, the Mammutmarsch 🦣 hiking event was also taking place there. Imagine that! 😁



Things got even more bizarre

True to the saying "Unexpected things often happen," today saw the continuation of my long-term project, ILC Saxony 🌊🏅, because I had actually planned a completely different tour with 187 km and 14,000 meters of elevation gain ↗️ (roughly rounded up 😉). After successfully catching a cough and a cold

While my weather team 🤓📊 managed to surprise me with a bit of sunshine yesterday 🌞😲, they had a much harder time today, promising me only a brief dry spell around midday 🫤. Not enough for a big outing, but enough to indulge in the long-planned cultural history ⚱️ practically on my doorstep ⛺.



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After the rainy forecast 🌧 for the weekend, today's plan was simply to do some shopping and refuel 🍫⛽️ in our beautiful neighboring country. But when my eighteen-strong tour planning and weather team 🧐🤓📊 informed me that there shouldn't be any rain at all in the Czech Republic 🇨🇿 👏, I upgraded