We spent four months in Germany in 2022, when S had a sabbatical. I was determined to demonstrate that it was possible to walk from our house in Steinebach all the way to Freiburg, where we had lived during S's 2009 sabbatical. Due to miscellaneous circumstances, this turned into a plan to walk most of the way across southern Germany, and happened in three stages: a walk from Steinebach to Lindau (which became two stages after S had a bicycle wreck and broke his Oberschenkelknochen), a walk from Freiburg to Ueberlingen, and a walk from Brannenberg to Berchtesgaden.
"But wait!", I hear you Gentle Readers cry, "you skipped Steinebach to Brannenberg! That's an entire fourth of the way across southern Germany!"
Indeed. And this is the year I'm going to fill that gap. Most of the filling is going to happen in July with our friend Chiara, but that trip will start in Lenggries--which leaves connecting Lenggries to somewhere I've already hiked.
This past Saturday, a day chosen because it wasn't supposed to rain all day, S and I took a train to Bichl, through which we had hiked last year on our hike to Italy, and we hiked over the foothills to Lenggries.
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| Weekends are for hiking and biking in Germany |
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| just past Angerlkopf |
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| This way to Zwiesel-Blomberg |
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| Kein Nebelmeer |
We saw two people on the trail between Bichl to the top of Zwiesel, but we saw lots of people between Zwiesel and Lenggries.
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| Zwiesel |
Refreshments at the Zwieselalm. It's so very German to hike up to the top of something and find homemade cake and drinks awaiting you.
Half of our hike was up and over the Zwiesel; the other half was south along the Isar to Lenggries. Like every other river in Germany, the Isar was swollen and flowing fast.
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| St. Nepomuk over the Isar |
It started raining just as our train left Lenggries.
Ta da! 13.9 miles, 2,700 ft elevation gain.
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