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Bavaria, Europe, Germany, Hiking, Mountains

Hiking Taubenstein

25 May, 2014 jpcorp Leave a comment

Another hike starting at Spitzingsee going up to the east. Going to the west leads you to Tegernsee.

taubenst02 — You reach this signs after you’ve done most of the hike. From here it’s just another 15 minutes to the top of Taubenstein.

taubenst05 — The “Gipfelkreuz”, looking south-west

Bavaria, Germany, Hiking

Hiking up Wank / Garmisch-Partenkirchen

26 October, 2013 jpcorp Leave a comment

Wank is a 1.780m high mountain near Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Surely not as impressive as Zugspitze but going up more than 1.000hm is a nice hike and you have great views including wonderful colours of the trees in fall:

wank3 — A signpost showing various hikes around Wank

wank5 — View across Garmisch-Partenkirchen

wank6 — Made it to the top, great day in fall

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South Africa ’13, Part 3: Table Mountain

7 September, 2013 jpcorp Leave a comment

On our last day in Cape Town we hiked up Table Mountain via Skeleton Gorge hiking trail starting in the Kirstenborsch Botanical Garden, which is a more interesting trail compared to the shorter one starting in the Table Mountain Park J once did.

table1 — Received some “tribal make-up” from the waitress after breakfast in the Botanical Garden.

table2 — She said this was a wedding custom in the African tribes

table3 — The trail was actually even steeper than it looked on this picture.

table6 — Bloubergstrand in the background

table10 — Close to the end of our hiking trip with the Lion’s head in the background, one of Cape Town’s landmarks.

table mountain

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Herzogstand Heimgarten hiking

24 August, 2013 jpcorp Leave a comment

Hiking up Heimgarten and then going across the ridge to Herzogstand is one of the most spectacular hikes we have done so far. It’s pretty strenuous and takes almost 5 hours – but absolutely worth the effort!