Thomas

From May onwards, getting bike tickets will probably be a problem... but it's still possible to do it at short notice for a day trip to the Adige River. The weather was great with temperatures up to 18 degrees Celsius. I only needed two layers of clothing in Munich, on the way to the train station. It

Since I didn't see any snow on the way to Pfaben (and also at the trailhead parking lot in Pfaben), I left my snow chains in the car. I missed them quite a few times during the first four kilometers. Towards the end of this stretch, I got a bit careless and misjudged a section. Instead of being muddy

It's great that from October to April you almost never have trouble booking bike parking spaces. In good weather, you can usually find spots to and from Munich even shortly before your trip (though for the end of May and the entire summer, it's already nearly impossible).



So I took advantage of the warm

With sunshine and mostly double-digit temperatures, I finally woke my old bike from its winter slumber today.



Except for a few kilometers in the valley's shade, I rode in the sun the entire way (12-5 pm). With the sun at my back, I could see the bright valley edges all around me. As expected, it was always

Today I woke up from my winter hibernation. Around 1 a.m., I decided to go for a night hike. It was a very peaceful hike. The only sound I heard was the crunch of my footsteps. The Isar River was mostly just a faint outline, a black ribbon I occasionally caught sight of beside me.



It was a nice experience

Because on my last hike along the Mangfall River, everything that looked wet on the trails turned out to be ice, I bought winter aids for my hiking boots before today's hike. I got myself some spikes on rubber and also some pointed "snow chains." I tested both today. The spikes worked well on thin, frozen

The sun woke me from my winter slumber, and the Mangfall River was my destination today. Whenever possible, I choose narrow paths for my hikes, and there were about 10 km of them today.



Many fallen trees, which hadn't been cleared away, lined or blocked the path. Often, the section of the tree that had

Between Christmas and New Year's, I was drawn outdoors again. After a long period of frost, the weather was supposed to turn sunny, and the granite formations of the Fichtel Mountains beckoned. With a slight worry about whether all the small paths in the Fichtel Mountains would still be visible, I set

Since I hadn't expected enough granite boulders on the main "Teutsches Paradeiß" trail, I extended the hike with a loop via the Gringelhöhle cave and the Hohe Matze mountain. This loop, mostly on narrow forest paths and often past moss-covered granite rocks, turned out to be the most beautiful part of