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| Koenigstein |
The first plateau was Quirl:
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| Clay chicken for scale |
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| S for scale |
Atop Quirl, we practiced for the Kaiserkrone.
We headed down from Quirl on a cobblestone path. Did these stones make tourist travel by horse or coach easier in the 18th and 19th centuries?
Next plateaus: Pfaffenstein and Junggeselle.
What goes up...
...must come down...
The next plateaus were Goerisch and Papststein.
There were a lotta stairs...
We paused atop Papststein for a tasty vegetarian lunch.
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| Carrot soup |
The Saechsische Schweiz is a popular destination for climbers.
We headed down, down, down from Papststein...
...to open fields...
...and Kleinhennersdorf, where we veered off-trail to cut through the village, where our kleine Henne felt right at home.
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| Can you see Carly? |
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| Frog crossing |
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| Street art |
We hiked up yet another hill outside of Krippen, where the Malerweg crossed the Caspar-David-Friedrich-Weg. A sign pointed toward the spot that supposedly inspired Friedrich to paint Zwei Männer in Betrachtung des Mondes and Mann und Frau in Betrachtung des Mondes, but we were wiped out and didn't want to make the detour.
In Reinhardtsdorf-Schöna, we stopped inside a lovely truffle of a church that was decorated in Bauernbarock ("peasant baroque") style. The church was founded ca. 1368 and expanded in the 1520s and again in the 1670s.
From the church, we headed out of town, into the fields, and up a hill to our hotel, leaving the Malerweg behind us to follow the Caspar-David-Friedrich-Weg. We passed a snack hut on the way, and declined to stop for DDR-style soft serve--clearly more popular in Saxony than Italian gelato is. We meant to try it at some point, but left Saxony before we had a chance.
Getting close...
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| Friedrichesque panorama |
A rain storm blew over our hotel in the evening--just what we needed for our hike up the Kaiserkrone the following day.
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| Ta da! 13.6 miles, 3200 ft elevation gain |
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