2026-09-03 10:07:04
Rocky Road (2026)
(Even if hundreds of years old, some paths [in life] always will & should remain rocky as they can be good teachers...)
#FootpathFriday #Photography #BlackAndWhite
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
@… Hiking trails, so the walks aren't spoiled?
Crossing of hiking trails on #Saba, Dutch Caribbean. #footpathfriday
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!
I spent last week catching some of the last snow of the season (probably) in the Bogong High Plains. A mix of hiking, snowshoeing, skiing and trail running. Brilliant weather made up for the lack of snow, and it’s always beautiful up there one way or another. #bushwalking #straya
Very much enjoying the PNW botanical hiking threads by
@… (and missing these places/region, now seeming from another life):
Mt. Adams:
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War ne ordentliche Tour heute:
#Bundalp #Bluemlisalphuette #Kandersteg
#hiking
Oh almost missed #footpathFriday !
It's from 2 years ago .. but .. maybe we just go there tomorrow? 🤔
#hiking #mountains
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #EasternEchoes
APO Hiking Society:
🎵 Pumapatak Ang Ulan
#APOHikingSociety
https://open.spotify.com/track/7kRuQZX2x6k4gEAHmhrlrn
Just back from a hike to one of our often-hiked mountains.
#hiking #wandern #mountains #lenggries
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
Netflix raises UK monthly prices, hiking the cost of Standard with Ads from £5.99 to £7.99, Standard from £12.99 to £13.99, and Premium from £18.99 to £20.99 (Stewart Clarke/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/09/netflix-hikes-uk-prices-cheapest-plan…
Die Seite #Schottland mit Beschreibungen, Angabe von Schwierigleotsgrad und 'Matsch-Faktor', Photo…
#SilentSunday
#RockyMountainNationalPark #LongsPeak
Looking East from the Ute Trail. November 2013.
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
Echte Gratwanderung im Steinernen Meer bei Saalfelden vom Wiechentaler Haus über die Persailspitze, Mitterhorn und Breithorn zum Riemannhaus, .gemeinsam mit meinem Wanderfreund Michael. Teilweise versicherter, ziemlich ausgesetzter Klettersteig mit einigen spannenden Stellen und genialer Aussicht.
#hiking #weekend
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
Grand wash trail, Capital Reef National Park this was midway through a 4.5 mile hike.
I wished it was a 3.5 mile hike, but I did fine. My left knee is not good 6 months after replacement despite much pt and individual rehab work. This trip was planned with a good result in mind, but I said F it, hurts at home, might as well see some beautiful country.
It’s just Collette and I so the stakes are low if I have to bail on anything. So far, so good.
Tomorrow, I'm going to be out on the Red Wine Trail again. 🚶
https://www.ahrtal.com/en/nature-active/hiking/rotweinwanderweg
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…
Coming & Returning From/To The Void (2026)
#MountainMonday #LandscapePhotography #Photography
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.
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 so glad that I never went down the Influencer path. Posting whenever I want, whatever I want.
Not posting when I don't want to, when I don't feel like it, no algorithm to please.
Not exaggerating everything I do "for the clicks", just doing what I like, hiking, cycling, taking videos with me talking or not,..
Full freedom
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.
Thanks to the #hiking community here, we now (almost) always have a water filter with us and we hardly dehydrated on our #cycling tours since.
I can barely say how good it feels to return without being terrible thirsty. Next issue I really need to solve is eating regularly and enough. Even though I had enough cereal bars with me, I more than once noticed hunger biting my stomach - and with this, a considerable drop of my physical performance.
But it was a lot of fun and joy nonetheless.
Quite hot again tomorrow... This really isn't a hiking year for me 😔
✅ Hiking route for tomorrow selected.
@… ha. Good point. I never thought about the story as a very well described hiking trip, but you're right!
Quick video of our recent hike near #wolfratshausen.
#hiking #wandern #bayern #icking #tölzerland
#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
Hey, for #footpathfriday I share another photo from a recent hike, which I blogged about:
#landscape #mountains #hiking #wandern #photography
Do you dare pass under and through?
#WitchWoodWednesday #WildGrowthWednesday #Sachsen #Hiking
ou man .. Looks like all the photos etc from our vacation won't be processed until next week :-(
But meanwhile: autumn is close: prepare your #hiking clothes. We just washed and re-impregnated our jackets.
I rember a visit at a JackWolfskin store where one of the guys said: "please think about washing the jacket"
Me: "we're washing, impregnating and activating them 2x a year when really dirty/sweated."
He looked at me for a couple of seconds:
"First client ever doing this"
We had agreat hike today but it was longer and more challenging than expected .. You'll see more photos soon. but today I'm tired.
#hiking #mountains #mountainmonday #landscape #bayern
Our vacation:
11 active days / 5 non-sports days
230km / 2000m elevation by bike
85km / 4350m elevation hiking
I'm not really surprised about our legs now!
Photos & videos are coming later
Good morning!
Yesterday: rest day
Today: little hiking again
Oh, #mountainmonday !
Time to share another photo from my recent hike. Don't worry, this is the only part that's SO exposed. The rest is not so dramatic, but one shouldn't be afraid of heights. Otherwise it might not be too much fun.
I've written about the day here:
#hiking #mountains #alpen #bayern #outdoors #photography
We definitely had a #silentsunday today.
Walking on small trails along the river #isar near #wolfratshausen. Even though I'm living in the area since ages, I've never been here before.
A nice long walk, mostly in the shades. Just the right trail for today.
Thanks to the Rother Wanderführer for this tour. #landscape #nature #hiking #wandern #bayern #bavaria
One for the #footpathFriday just from yesterdays blogpost from my blog profile @…
My route for tomorrow is selected and this was a hot candidate. But my wife convinced me to go somewhere else as we had been on this path just recently.
keep fingers crossed that my north-side route won't be too chill tomorrow.
#hiking #outdoors #mountains #bayern
Today's view. I did a bike and hike. But oh wow did I feel my legs at the summit!
The bike part involved some steep incline (~20%). This obviously hammered my muscles a bit. But the overall walk was just wonderful.
#hiking #bikeandhike #mountains #alps #isarwinkel #outdoors #wandern #bayern
Greetings today from #hiking in the #BayerischerWald to the #Lusen summit.
The peak was quite windy and I was well equipped, bringing a soft shell jacket and a beanie. 👍
On the way back I discovered this stone sculpture and it SO reminded me of the places of power in #witcher3.
I tried it, but it didn't work 😕
It's been a beautiful tour that I extended rather spontaneously. But I haven't been to such a frequented summit recently. But I wasn't surprised. So all cool.
#mountains #outdoors
We've been #hiking again today! We revisited a route that we did years ago. It was great again, especially as I forgot about a beautiful part of the trail: narrow, a bit exposed. At one part even with an iron rope.
And we were confirmed that it's definitely the time of the year to bring caps, headband and light jackets.
Once the sun is covered by a cloud, it can be pretty chill.
I practiced some new photography style.. Maybe I'll show the results later.
#bayern #mountains #outdoors #wandern
Impressions from our hike yesterday.
Luckily mostly in the shades, a gentle slope, great views and a bit of litter cleanup.
But all the little streams we crossed have gone dry again.
But it's been a great day, finished with an ice-coffee 😊
A couple started the hike shortly before us and one complained about one shoe falling apart "but maybe it still works". A few hundred meters later, it didn't...
#hiking #wandern #mountains #cleanup #selfie #alps #alpen #garmischpartenkirchen
The first #photo from my album that seemed to be a good fit for a #silentsunday . I know, it's a little bit wintery ;)
But the current vacation-photos are still pending. And I'm lazy these days with regards to photo processing and blogging. I'm rather in hiking/cycling, reading and preparing the next day-activities
Actually - I don't think I'll write such an extensive blog this time for our vacation ... it just takes SO much time.
#winter #snow #murnau