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I've found myself running quite a couple of fediverse handles now.
I can't expect everyone to know them all, so I just want to list them as a monthly reminder:
This one: @…
Hiking & Cycling Videos: @…

Monkeys Have Geometric Skills On Par With Human Preschoolers, Study Suggests : ScienceAlert https://www.sciencealert.com/monkeys-have-geometric-skills-on-par-with-human-preschoolers-study-suggests

Uff finally! All Posts from our vacation in the Fränkische Schweiz are online.
Some of the posts also contain videos that appeared in the last couple of days on my peertube account on @…

Learning new #GIS concepts while #grading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobler's_hikin…

Tobler's hiking function - Wikipedia

Not as cool as your's @… but I tried a couple of shots in the fields. I guess I'll try some more versions of my corn field-photos until I find my favourite.
But meanwhile, check out the other photos and blog posts from our vacation as well ;)

Die Seite #Schottland mit Beschreibungen, Angabe von Schwierigleotsgrad und 'Matsch-Faktor', Photo…

Hydnellum Peckii "bleeding tooth" mushroom. Garden of the Goddesses trail, Colorado, USA.
#Fungus #Hiking #Photo

#hiking #mountains #nature

#SilentSunday
#RockyMountainNationalPark #LongsPeak
Looking East from the Ute Trail. November 2013.

Many US public parks sit surprisingly close to hazardous waste sites and facilities that release toxic chemicals https://phys.org/news/2026-08-hazardous-sites-facilities-toxic-chemicals.html

Many US public parks sit surprisingly close to hazardous waste sites and facilities that release toxic chemicals
While parks, playgrounds and hiking trails are generally thought of as "healthy" spaces, researchers from the University of Michigan have found that many of them overlap with old toxic waste sites or sit dangerously close to facilities that actively release hazardous chemicals. Their new study, published in Scientific Reports, looks at the proximity of 151,366 U.S. public parks to facilities in the EPA's Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) and Superfund sites (SFS).

Ajinomoto says it can meet demand through 2030 for ABF, a key material for advanced chipmaking substrates, and plans to expand capacity instead of hiking prices (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/ai-needs-ajin

Damn! spent the whole evening reading articles and not editing photos (as planned) ...
Ah well - then I invite you to a walk we did recently on a sunny day along some nice blooming bushes.
#hiking #flowers #outdoors

#hiking #biking #maps

Mapy.com
Popular map portal covering whole world by wide range of maps - basic, outdoor (hiking/cycling), traffic, winter. It offers possibility of aerial and 3D view. Extensive amount of travel points of interest. Users are able to search places, plan routes, measure ground and create and share own content. Tourists worldwide use map portal for detailed hiking and cycling maps and extensive tourist guides.

Coming & Returning From/To The Void (2026)
#MountainMonday #LandscapePhotography #Photography

#hiking #norway

These use-cases are so weird.
Like do you really need a $3,500 face computer to figure this out?
But more importantly why doesn’t Siri AI tell you to just wear the shoes on your feet instead of carrying them in a backpack while hiking?

The most meaningful thing I've probably ever worked on is the Open Science Retreat.
The retreats since 2023 have connected #OpenScience enthusiasts from all over the world in a way that is beyond what I could have ever imagined.
Here is the new Wiki:

Wen treffe ich am kommenden Wochenende auf der Niederelbehütte oder der Edmund-Graf-Hütte?
Endlich mal eine Auszeit - die letzten Wochen waren stressig!
#Berge #Hiking #Wandern

This popped up from today a couple of years ago. Lake District, looking down over the end of Crummock Water. #outdoors #hiking

Last day of vacation! We just did a small walk to our local hill. The clouds in the south look pretty grey, while it looked nice in the north.
We have a relaxing day today, a real #silentsunday.
#hiking

Crossing of hiking trails on #Saba, Dutch Caribbean. #footpathfriday

We've been out #hiking today. Luckily it wasn't that warm as the sky was covered in clouds - at least sometimes. But to be honest we were surprised that we met just a few people.
But the drought is undeniable. Usually the grass should be quite green.
Anyways. We had a 4h loop and saw a lot of blackberries and even Belladonna. Not a lot of motives around - or maybe it was too w…

To whom it may concern: I've made an accurate map legend for the roads in #Komoot.
#hiking #cycling
(This is based on the German map legend that can be found at https://www.komoot.com/de-de/help/map)

What in the what is this speaker? Is it an Altered Item from The Oldest House crossed with LLM hallucination? Transporter malfunction of a box of consumer electronics? I kinda want it. #bluetooth #speaker #HailCorporate

Background: the Israeli press has turned a settler terrorist that got gunned down as a victim that was merely hiking.

"Collections" is a cool new Mastodon feature introduced lately.
@… has kindly added me to a collection for mountain and outdoor enthusiasts. Thank you!
So if you are interested into outdoor content, consider following people on the list and of course also follow Sander:

#tbt: Jun 17 *2025*, hiked up this rock. Was a 5hr activity IIRC. 🥾⛰️
#photography #amateur #Alps #hiking #throwback #throwbackThursday #mountain

Perhaps Robin is just using the #TCRno12 as training for this years #SMR?
"In order to avoid a banned road, Robin took to hiking down to a riverbank to reach a stream. Wading through the flowing, rocky water with his bike, he passed under a bridge, climbed up the other bank, and continued on…

A/B testing latest refinements (more depth, better details in clouds/highlights and contrast in mid tones). First image is the new version. Next stop double size, 14x10"...
#AltProcess #Kallitype #LandscapePhotography

Quite hot again tomorrow... This really isn't a hiking year for me 😔

Had to prepare new silver nitrate solution last night and made a new test print of a moody moment from one my fave hikes in the Dolomites...
(The highlights needs a little more refinement)
#AltProcess #Kallitype

My #FootpathFriday contribution... I wish I was there today to be honest..
This was part of a bike and hike where we returned in the rain. But as we were prepared for it, it was more fun than expected!
#nature

Currently planning a holiday in the Eifel this October, not quite what I was expecting to read about here...
https://mastodon.social/@carstenfranke/117097064884848091
carstenfranke@mastodon.social - So in my home state in Germany there is a forest on fire, the largest wildfire in the history of North Rhine-Westfalia.  
Size wise nothing compared to what we see here in the US, but there is a little quirk: firefighters have to be extra cautious and can't access all areas, because of WWII ammunition, mines and grenades that still are in the soil.  
I remember hiking that general area with my parents in the 1980s and occasionally finding rifle rounds.
Wars have long lasting consequences.

I'm not big on the whole Christian "natural/artificial" binary, or the settler-colonialist concept of "wilderness" which erases indigenous stewardship in a bid to claim mid territory (see, e.g., tribes forced out of what are now national parks in the US). But I do enjoy getting out of urban/suburban environments and into places where the human impact on the land is minimal and/or synergistic with non-human flourishing.
I was thinking about why I enjoy this so much today while out on a stroller hike with my younger child, and came to the conclusion that it may be less about being in a "natural" space and more about being in a space whose flourishing is not tied to the capitalist necropolitical "growth" spiral.
Like, there's the baseline intrinsic beauty of flowers, trees, flowing water, etc. Then there's the pleasure of considering how these things fit together into an ecosystem and mutually support each other (and also compete/predate, etc.). But on top of all that, there's the sense that these things are part of a self-sustaining pattern that's capable of continuing without outside inputs and without creating external waste over vast, geologic timescales. The things I see when I look around in a city aren't like that. 100 or 1000 or 10000 years from now they'll be ruins, not necessarily because of human extinction or anything like that, but because the resource flows that create them are inseparable from a fundamentally unsustainable economy built around a paradoxical assumption of infinite exponential growth.
There *are* of course some human-built or -stewarded things in the world that are sustainably maintained, and ruins can have their own kind of beauty. But to me part of the joy of being on a hiking trail is to look around and see beautiful systems that will persist regardless of (most) human political outcomes that I spend a lot of energy worrying about.
Even in the extreme cases of climate change these things will eventually come back, albeit in an altered form. I don't want to ignore the incredibly destructive impact of humans on the environment, of course, but still, it's comforting to me to think about how the problems and brokenness of currently-dominant human cultures might change and scar but will not actually destroy the many systems on this planet that just don't depend on humans for their propagation.

✅ Hiking route for tomorrow selected.

Bin heute endlich wieder mal auf einen Berg gekommen.
Vom #Präbichl über den Knappensteig zur Leobner Hütte, von dort dann weiter zur Vordernberger Griesmauer. Aufstieg ist bereits großteils schneefrei möglich.
#Wandern

Weather forecast was about rain and maybe lightning ... so we just biked to your lokal mountain and did a quick loop in high humidity.
#hiking #bayern #mountains

#FotoVorschlag 'Hitze'
I usually avoid hikes in the heat, but younger me wasn't so wise.
In 2011 I went up Mt Yishay from Ein Gedi on the Dead Sea. We walked it in reverse, so we only saw the sign when coming down. It was exceptionally hot, even for the region, and there was no water, no shrub and no tree for most of the hike. I had to hide in the shade of a rock crevice for 20min to not pass out 🙈
Also one of my only hikes from negative elevation (-380m − 160m and back).
A girl from the Netherlands who we met on the way insisted on joining us, although she was just wearing a bikini and flip-flops. I thought it was a little stupid, but in the end she did a lot better than me. Another lesson learned 😅
#Hiking #Israel #Palestine #Oasis #Desert #DeadSea

Oh almost missed #footpathFriday !
It's from 2 years ago .. but .. maybe we just go there tomorrow? 🤔
#hiking #mountains

We've been in #austria today, looking down to the #achensee. It's been a lovely hike. Warm but nice. Now relaxing with a good coffee on the couch.
(But still thinking about all the cyclists... Should I go cycling 🤔)

Short video from last weekend's hike.
Maybe writting a blogpost for it? 🤔
#hiking

A log of my significant walks and hikes in 2026. Most post also include pictures I take. 📓 🖼️ 👇
My 2025 significant walks and hikes 👉
#hiking #walking #health #photography

Just noticed that I still had hiking and cycling videos uploaded to my YouTube account that I only set to private ages ago.
And just deleted all of them from the account ...
The longer videos are all on my own peertube server: @… ¦

video.FranzGraf.de
This is the video archive of my hiking and photography adventures. For more content, visit my main website at https://www.franzgraf.de

Just saw that the BayVista - a place where we stayed already in the past for vacations in the #BayerischerWald - have upgraded their place. - Maybe our next hiking vacation will be there again 🤔
https://www.bayvista.de

For #mountainmonday I don't have a very new photo, but one that I just like very much!
Need to go there again, soon.
Enjoy!
#photography #hiking

RE: #hiking

One week of #vacation... Not missing work too much, but still thinking about work related stuff once in a while.
But being out and about,#hiking in green forests for hours is just precious. Visited a couple of castles and caves in guided tours and I can say: a human telling stuff and answering questions is unbeatable.
Every guide has his/her own style - full of humor, empathic, educa…

@… ha. Good point. I never thought about the story as a very well described hiking trip, but you're right!

I wanted to post mountain photos more regularly again! So here's one trail from last year where I started really early to avoid the heat.
It was a hike that I did alone and met just like ... 2 or 3 people. Oh and I was glad to have a water filter with me!
I spotted a spring on my way up and - knowing that I'd come pack to it later - I didn't have to use my water sparingly.
Enjoy!

Hiking tip: just bring your water filter to the hike. Even if you don't plan to use it.

yesterday while doing our errands , a woman approached me in a shop "we do know each other - and we do not know each other".
Turns out we follow each other since ~10 years on instagram and have occasional conversations, live in the same city are both hiking and cycling (ok, she's ways fitter) and always said "yeah maybe we meet somewhere in town, would be a funny coincident" .. and just 10 years later, this coincidence happened.

Do you dare pass under and through?
#WitchWoodWednesday #WildGrowthWednesday #Sachsen #Hiking

Just back from a hike to one of our often-hiked mountains.
#hiking #wandern #mountains #lenggries