Murgleiter - Etappe 3 16/05/2015

Today I went hiking again. With the hiking group from the first trip we decided to do another trip. At first hour in the morning the sky was a bit cloudy but afterwards the sun came out so we end out having a sunny nice day.

The track was more or less the same length of the first one but much steeper so it was a harder journey. However the weather was nicer this time so we didn't felt that extra effort that much.

We meet at 8.45 at the Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhof and we took the S41 tram till Forbach. This town is situated in the lower part of the valley so once there we started heading to the mountain. For some reaseon people were selling cheap cakes in the street.

As the town is small in not to much time we where already in the midle of the forest. As usually, nice green views together with step slopes.

After walking for some hours we reached a dam, the Schwarzenbachtalsperer. It was build in 1926 and has been drained several time during history due to wars. The last drain was done in 1997.

We ate at the base of the damm, a really nice and relaxing place. After this we keep walking, this time down the hill. At the lowest point we found river with some road going close to it. As the road has a lot of curves it's full of motorbikers enjoying the track. 

 As we got lost before getting to destination we did an extra visit to Stuhlberg which was not planned. However the trip only got 1km longer, so not that bad after all. The trip ended in Schönrhünzach, a really small town where we took the tram and went back home.

Schwarzwald Renchtalsteig Etappe 2 22/04/2015

Today I went hiking in the Scwartzwald. It was not a really sunny day so this made some people back of but we managed to be 8 people. The route we made was:

We meet at 7.45 a.m. in the Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhof and took the train to go to Oppenau.Oppenau is in a valley. The train keeps following the lower part of the valley. The rails togetehr with the german houses, created nice views.

In Oppenau we started walked till 1:00 pm when we stopped to eat something. At this point of the journey we had already done more than half of the altitude gain. Some of parts of the trail where quite step but it was worth the effort.

After the short brake we continued walking till Bad Peterstal-Griesbach. There we decided to keep walking till the next extation, 3.5 km away. That station was the last one of the rail.

Regarding the trip, we walked around 20km but I'm not able to the exact distance as I had some issues while recording the track and only some part of the journey got recorded.