Herzogstand 11 Jul 2013
In this trip, we climbed two peaks, both slightly over 1790 meters
(slightly less than 6000 feet) seperated by a
difficult/interesting rocky gorge crossing on a ridge, starting from the Walchensee
at 800 meters. We climbed up about 1000m/3300' to the first
peak.
We first visited the
Herzogstand: a princely hunting lodge, and the Gipfel (peak) above
it where once stood a giant antenna for studying the
Ionosphere. Today, there is just a kiosk explaining the
history. And a giant cross, as there is for
every peak, where we took pictures and contgratulated ourselves.
Then we crossed the gorge to the Heimgarten peak and
stopped for refreshment at the Hut there. Then back down. Much of
this trip was in very dense fog. Finally we could see a bit when
we were much deeper down in the lovely forest. I made a bad
mistake: I thought we were staying the night in the Hut and
was carrying at least a 10Kg pack during this 8 hour hike. But I managed.
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