2021 HIKING THREAD.

[tanglediver]

 

[trailbum]

That would be scary.
Good luck to them.

 

[Wasty]

There is a low key hiking contest around here, with 10 different small hikes, you have to find your path and answer a question (i.e what is written on this stone found somewhere around x) and when finished before September you have a chance to win some stuff, or a night in a hotel etc...
We started the first tour today, the one nearest to us and we found our way. That was 13km (8 miles)

Beautiful weather and quite some people about.

Whatever happened here...


And the answer to the first question is: Ritter von Alsenzborn

Next week we have a holiday and we've planned to take two tours, one is directly on the border to France and I hope to find some old bunkers and parts of the Maginot-line..

 

[tanglediver]

 

[Wasty]

Today we invaded France via the green border
But not without walking by the biggest sand rock formation in Rhineland Palatinate.

There is a French military training ground near, so we walked the whole way with the sound of artillery in the background


As I can only attach 10 pictures, the 14 and the 17 helped on the way

 

[Wasty]

Here is the rest of it:
We were incredibly lucky with the weather, that thunderstorm caught us on the drive back

 

[cbach8tw]

Wow, some great pics!!

 

[trailbum]

Great pics.
Thanks for the adventure.

 

[Wasty]

I am very sorry for spamming: But we did another competition hike today, we went to the most photographed trail in Rhineland Palatinate today, the Karlstal, a very picturesque trail where the Bavarian King Ludwig was quite often and thought it was great...

Here are the pics:

 

[trailbum]

That place looks amazing.

 

[Don W]

Beautiful pics Wasty!

My wife and I just returned home after a quick 2 night camp.
Pisgah Forest some where down hill of Mt. Mitchell.
Sorry for the lack of Becker content. I did have my BK62 with me.

 

[trailbum]

Don W
Great pics.
Looks like a great time.

 

[Don W]

Don W
Great pics.
Looks like a great time.

It was a great time. I am not very experienced in camping in the rain. Our tent was the only dry place. I need to figure a way of setting up tarps or something to have some semi dry out-of-tent space. All of my experience camping is in Arizona and Florida, very little rain in those parts.

 

[Wasty]

Don W
Indeed it seems you had a wonderful outing One of the nicest sounds is the rain on the tent when your warm and snuggly inside.
I've been to North Carolina once in my life, but only in Raleigh, and i definitely missed quite a bit!

 

[SALTY]

Excellent pics in this thread; Becker folk truly appreciate (and share) the outdoors.

 

[Wasty]

And we did another one, just around the Drachenfels (Dragonrock) - again roughly 8 Miles but with quite some uphill parts...



Those Sundays are quite exhausting, but well worth the effort

 

[trailbum]

Wikewa state park.
15 miles. Sore feet.
I didn’t have a Becker on me.
I flew in with only a carry on.

 

[Wasty]

Looks like you had a good day Where is that? It looks like quite tropical already.

I do have a question about hiking in the US: As you got a fair bit more wilderness than we do, how big is the chance to come across "dangerous" wildlife on well hiked trails?

The only fear we have is to stumble upon wild hogs, other than that, not so much

 

[trailbum]

Florida near Sanford.
I’ve run across pigs in Georgia, bears and moose in New Hampshire.

 

[Don W]

trailbum Did you go for a swim in the spring? Those trails start feeling long when you get in sections with soft sand.