Today our hiking group split up. Due to the bad weather and the ongoing thunderstorm warning, I wanted to get over the 2500 m high pass from France to Italy, which was still over 5 km away, as quickly as possible without missing a single meter of the trail. My parents, on the other hand,…
The rain lasted all night, but fortunately stopped when the call of nature drove me out of the tent to the toilet block. We had planned to start our day early and finish early at a campsite after just 13 km. The weather was set to deteriorate again – not only rain, but also thunderstorms…
On the first day, we headed to the starting point from the campsite where we had spent the night and where we wanted to park our car for the next eight days. This was a little frustrating, as we had already walked past here the evening before on our way to the supermarket. However, you…
A short walk from Heimburg. There are a few remains of walls, a Harzer Wandernadel stamp and a vantage point from which you can get a good view of Heimburg and the surrounding area. No more, but also no less. You can find more hikes that I did as part of #HWN2024 here.
I think “voyage of discovery” sums it up very well, because you rarely get to see so many impressive things in such a short distance. It’s not for nothing that the region here is well hiked. As always, my version of these three popular stamping points is a little overgrown, but rewards us with a…
Well, “hike” is perhaps a bit of an exaggeration, it’s more of a walk around the Elfenstein, but a very worthwhile one. The tour starts directly at the hiking parking lot and first leads slightly uphill along a wide forest path. Shortly afterwards, the path becomes a narrow, somewhat overgrown path, which is still very…
On this short but crisp circular hike from Blankenburg, we collect three stamps for the Harz hiking pin in less than four kilometers. Our first destination is the Grandfather Rock. We climb a flight of steps and then a rooty path to the stamping point. It’s not all that easy. The actual viewpoint of the…
I did a similar hike this year – a circular hike from Auerhahn with three stamping points, together with my parents. This time I did another circular hike from Auerhahn, but with different stamp points. I had already visited the Köte am Heidenstieg on my hike from Ilsenburg to Goslar, and unfortunately I was too…
A great, approx. 3 km hike from the Lustgarten in Wernigerode with an incredible view of the castle in Wernigerode. Don’t be fooled by the short distance – the ascent to the Agnesberg is very steep and tough. From there, the route is easier until we descend shortly afterwards to the next stamping point, Gasthaus…
A short hike from Benzingerode near Wernigerode. If you come by car, you can park at the church in the village, as I did. From there, it’s only a short walk to the Austberg tower. Once there, we walk along the hill for a while before descending again and heading towards the village, only to…