A day walk in the bavarian woods *Updated pics*

[jackknife]

Thanks for the update, Andi! Love those forests, makes think of a nice Drilling, crisp dawn, and a boar hunt. And stein full of some nice full bodied beer after, of course.
Carl.

 

[Humppa]

Hi guys! Thank you for the nice and kind words. Yes, it´s pretty nice out there.

@fester: Hunting with dogs and so on is just once per year, in the beginning of december. Usually the hunters sit on their "treehouses" and wait for the deer or whatever.

@carl: You´re right... being outdoors makes us thirsty

@zippo: I´ve already heard, that a lot germans settled in your area. Maybe it´s because of the landscape.

Kind regards
Andi

 

[Doug Add]

Very nice Andi, thanks for the update!

 

[The Mastiff]

Andi, Thanks for the pictures. It brings back lots of good memories for me. I spent a couple of years running around that area of the world. I was first stationed in Augsburg when VII corp was still in Germany. I ended up with a tour down in Bertchesgaden. Got to really enjoy the area. I consider it the prettiest place I've ever seen. You could wake up in June and look up and see a blizzard on the Watzman, and be in 70 degree weather.

I got to train with the mountain troop Feldjaegers which was pretty good. They were good soldiers. Chimsee, Konigsee, heck, the whole area from north of the Salzburg border crossing up to Augsburg, down to Garmirsh, and Bad Tolz was my units area of operation.

I've lived out in forests just like that in the wintertime with nothing but a shelter half, and a sleeping bag. No fires allowed.

It was an experience. I ended up taking a wife home in fact

Thanks again Andi.

Joe

 

[Humppa]

Hi Joe!

You made a real great tour through the bavarian alps. As I already wrote, they are just 65 kilometres away from here. I was visiting all that places, for sure. When I see guys traveling here from Northern Germany or even the whole world - we have these beauties in front of our nose.

I have had do camping during my time in the army at Stetten am Kalten Markt (Baden Württemberg), on about 1.000 metres N.N., also in winter. Was also no joke..

I´m glad you liked it here and I hope you have made a good decision on taking a wife from this area.

Thank you guys for your replies

Kind regards
Andi

 

[mnblade]

This was on the border to Czech Republic.

... My wife and I had a great day in these woods and a great meal in Czech Republic

Andi

Where exactly in the Czech Republic? I'm pretty familiar with that area.

-- Mark

 

[Humppa]

Hi Mark! That´s at the Lusen (mountain), near Phillipsreut in Germany. The next place in CZ is Strazny. Directly on the border of both countries. On the Bavarian side, it´s called Bayerischer Wald and in CZ it´s called Böhmer Wald.

Where have you already been in CZ?

Kind regards
Andi

 

[mnblade]

Hi Mark! That´s at the Lusen (mountain), near Phillipsreut in Germany. The next place in CZ is Strazny. Directly on the border of both countries. On the Bavarian side, it´s called Bayerischer Wald and in CZ it´s called Böhmer Wald.

Where have you already been in CZ?

Actually, in Czech it's the Šumava forest. I've been all over the Czech Republic many times, including a number of trips not far from there (near Borová Lada). My wife grew up in Prague. This is a VERY interesting area considering the history of WWII and the post-war expulsion of Sudeten Germans (there are still farms in Knížecí Pláně that were abandoned in 1945 when the residents were forced to take a few belongings and march west. Some never made it). Of course there's also the Cold War history. The first time I hiked around there (must have been 1994) my now wife and I found enormous rusty coils of barbed wire out in the woods that had been part of the "no man's land" border between West Germany and communist Czechoslovakia. If you were caught in the area, you'd have been shot, no questions asked.

-- Mark