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Did a short and relaxed after work hike.

Duration: 1 hour and 40 minutes
Length: 8 km
Elevation: 450 m to 515 m
Ascent/Descent: 170 m ↑ and 160 m ↓

#Hiking #Hike #Hikes #Hiker #HikingTrail #GoHiking #HikingView #HikingAdventures #Wanderlust #Wandern #Waldbaden #Sunlight #Trees #Forest #ForestLovers #SunlightThroughTrees #Wolken #Wolkenbilder #Clouds #Cloudporn #Cloudscape #Cloudphotography #Cloudspotting #ScenicsNature #Spätsommer #LateSummer #Nature #SchwäbischeAlb #SwabianAlps #SwabianMountains #SwabianJura #WelzheimerWald

A lake with forest on both lakesides on a sunny afternoon. The lake's surface mirrors the blue sky and the clouds above.

Sunlight shines through trees in the woods.

A big, dark gray cloud looking like a mushroom right above a meadow.

Typical uneven landscape in the Swabian Alps on a late summer afternoon: Green meadows, many trees and houses sprinkled in between.

I got up early this morning for a really short bike trip (roughly 11 kilometers both ways) and some swimming in the nearest lake.

#Lake #Swimming #SwabianMountains #SwabianAlps

There is still backlog from past weeks.

Here are only a few photos from the rather flat and unspectacular stage number seven (from Mögglingen to Schwäbisch Gmünd with a little extension) of the RemstalWeg. Atleast there were cats!

Duration: 4 hours and 49 minutes (excluding an approximately 25 minute lunch break)
Length: 24.5 km
Elevation: 410 m to 495 m
Ascent/Descent: 260 m ↑ and 190 m ↓

#Hiking #RemstalWeg #SwabianMountains #SwabianJura #Wanderlust #Wandern #SchwäbischeAlb #Cats #Pixelcats

Another cat, this time black and grey, walks up to me in the middle of some farm land.

The same cat waits for me on the bench nearby and guards my backpack.

Here are a few photos from a hike I did mid-April through vineyards and forests.
Because of the cold and damp weather I ended the hike earlier than I initially wanted to.

Duration: 3 hours and 44 minutes (excluding an approximately 15 minute lunch break)
Length: 17.8 km
Elevation: 245 m to 484 m
Ascent/Descent: 390 m ↑ and 485 m ↓

#Trees #ForestLovers #Vineyards #Mist #Fog #RainyDay #RainyMood #Hiking #RemstalWeg #SwabianMountains #SwabianJura #Wanderlust #Wandern #Remstal

An uphill-facing farm road in between vineyards

Fog patches obscure the view into the valley

A wooden staircase leading deeper down into the forest

I chose a sunny friday mid-April for a challenging hike I wanted to do for some time: The "Heldentour", queen's stage of a collection of hiking routes called "Löwenpfade" in the area of Göppingen.
At the end of the tour I rewarded myself with some mango icecream from a local farm shop while waiting for the bus.

Duration: 5 hours and 7 minutes (excluding an approximately 30 minute lunch break)
Length: 23.7 km
Elevation: 460 m to 780 m
Ascent/Descent: 760 m ↑ and 770 m ↓

#Trees #ForestLovers #Hiking #Löwenpfade #Heldentour #SwabianMountains #SwabianJura #Wanderlust #Wandern #SchwäbischeAlb

Viewpoint with an empty benchnear the top of Galgenberg (715 m): The valley sprinkled with houses in front, the tree-covered mountain ridge on the left.

Ski-jumping hill in the middle of nowhere

While resting I have some selfmade lunch: bulgur salad

Sorry for not posting anything these last few weeks - real life has been busy.
I have to do some catch up, so let's get started:

On the end of March I hiked from Heubach to Mögglingen via Aalen-Essingen. The tour was again part of the RemstalWeg.

Duration: 5 hours and 15 minutes
Length: 24.5 km
Elevation: 404 m to 733 m
Ascent/Descent: 565 m ↑ and 634 m ↓

#Trees #ForestLovers #Hiking #RemstalWeg #SwabianMountains #SwabianJura #Wanderlust #Wandern #SchwäbischeAlb #Sundowner #Sundown

A metal bridge with wooden planks for hikers connecting the top of two large rocks viewed from underneath.

View from the the top of the Rosenstein, a 735 m high mountain in the Swabian Jura, over the small town of Heubach.

Charming view through a window opening of the Rosenstein ruin towards Heubach.

This photo is taken in front of a green metal bridge with wooden planks. On the other side of the bridge you can see the Rosenstein ruin hiding in the trees.

On the weekend I hiked from a suburb of Schwäbisch Gmünd to Heubach. The tour was part of the RemstalWeg.

Duration: 4 hours and 3 minutes
Length: 19.7 km
Elevation: 343 m to 725 m
Ascent/Descent: 559 m ↑ and 543 m ↓

#Trees #ForestLovers #Hiking #RemstalWeg #SwabianMountains #SwabianJura #Wanderlust #Wandern #SchwäbischeAlb

Yesterday I only had to work till lunch time, so I took advantage of a free afternoon and hiked from a suburb of #Göppingen to Schwäbisch Gmünd.
At the halfway mark I crossed the #Hohenstaufen, one of the so-called "Three Kaiser mountains" in the region. The mountain towers over the forests that have overgrown the ruins of the Hohenstaufen Castle, the seat of the former House of Hohenstaufen. The bar-restaurant on top is unfortunately going to open only in a couple of weeks.
It really felt like #SpringIsHere...

Tomorrow will be another #TBT post but this time not about the #Alps. On saturday I'm going on a 10-day-Interrail trip through Switzerland. Stay tuned!

#Sun #Sunlight #Trees #ForestLovers #Hiking #SwabianMountains #SwabianJura #Waldbaden #Winter #WinterSun #Wanderlust #Wandern #SchwäbischeAlb

View from the bottom of the Luftikus lookout tower near Rechberghausen.

Clear, blue sky and the Hohenstaufen towers the forest in the distance

Muddy forest path with sunlight shining through the trees.

White jurassic rock formation near Hohenstaufen

I went for a #Hike about 18 kilometers in the afternoon during a freezing cold, but sunny winter day.

#Sun #SunlightThroughTrees #Sunlight #Trees #ForestLovers #SwabianMountains #Waldbaden #Winter #WinterSun

Snowy forest road with sunlight coming through the trees.

A wooden sign is hanging from a tree which reads: "True words aren't always pretty. Pretty words aren't always true."

Today was such good weather - perfect for a #Hike on a route I never took before: Through fields, valleys, tiny villages and forests till I reached Schwäbisch Gmünd from where I took a train and a bus back home. Great afternoon!

#Sun #SunlightThroughTrees #Sunlight #Trees #ForestLovers #Hiking #SwabianMountains #Waldbaden #Winter #WinterSun

A small road on the forest's edge leading downwards. The swabian jura is covered in a little bit of fog on the horizon.

A path in the woods covered in sunlight.

I am looking down on the city of Schwäbisch Gmünd.

Yesterday was a cold, but mostly sunny Sunday - perfect for a walk in the #WelzheimerWald!

#Sun #SunlightThroughTrees #Sunlight #Trees #ForestLovers #SwabianMountains #Waldbaden #Winter #WinterSun

A small road in the forest. Sunlight is shing through the trees in front of me.

Sunlight is shinng through the trees in front of me.

This is a picture of the astronomical observatory in Welzheim.

The path is frozen and very slippery. Big rocks are Icicled.

It's #ThrowbackThursday and that's a great time for my #FirstPost on mountains.photos and #Pixelfed.

Let's go back to where it started for me: In september 2021, during the second year of the #Covid19 pandemic, and after I did some smaller day trips in the #BlackForest and #SwabianMountains I visited #Austria for the first time and went for multiple day trips in the beautiful nature of the #Alps.
First stop was the #Tuxertal where both photos were taken.

I wasn't particularly interested in #mountain hiking before but this holiday ignited a #passion I've been following since then.

#TBT #Hiking #GoHiking #HikingView #HikingAdventures #Alpen #Alps #Wanderlust #Wandern #Zillertal #Mountains