After ignoring the Schwarzwald in favour of hiking in Switzerland for almost 16 years, I have already been there twice this year. On my first visit, I went to the third highest summit in the Schwarzwald, which was Belchen. Then there was the second highest summit, Herzogenhorn. So it made perfect sense that my third…
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Not many instrumentals make it into the pop charts, but in 1965 one did. “Eine Schwarzwaldfahrt” by the German musician Horst Jankowski was released in other countries as “A Walk in the Black Forest”. I have amended that title slightly for this post, returning the area to its German name of Schwarzwald. Unfortunately, work had…
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My last Swiss walk of 2024 was in the snow, walking the Tüfelschlucht and on to the Belchenflue. It seemed perfectly natural then, that my first Swiss walk of 2025 should also be in the snow. When I arrived back in Basel just after New Year, there was snow on the ground in places in…
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After I arrived in Crans, work commitments took me away from hiking for a while. That left me running up against my target deadline of completion before the end of the year. When a chance to go back on the trail did come up, I watched the weather anxiously. It looked like there would be…
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