Chiemgau: Schwarzenberg trails mtb - Oct 21
The sunny and warm days came back! The first October weekend was very good weather, perfect for bike ride.
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Chiemgau: Kampenwand trails mtb - July 21
I realized while looking at Kampenwand map area we never reached Steinlingalm by bike. The last time we bailed out earlier at Gorialm.
Schliersee: Huberspitz trails mtb - June 21
We had limited time the previous weekend, we were looking for shorter ride. Schliersee offers couple of shorther trails like Huberspitz trails.
Tegernsee: Wasenkogel and Holzeralm trails mtb - Sept 20
I returned to Nesselscheibe this week to do alternative trails. I spotted a few the last time on the way back, they looked more rough compared to what I plan...
Bad Tölz: Rechelkopf west trail mtb - Sept 20
We had very good weather on Friday-Saturday this week if we compare the previous days. The visibility was great, we were able to see Karwendel on the way dow...
Garmisch: Estergebirge (Ester mountains) 2 days hike - Aug 20
We did not explored Ester Mountains so far. We only hiked/skitoured to Wank peak, but we never gone further east from Garmisch Partenkirchen. The mountain ra...
Schliersee: Rohnberg trials - August 20
Unfortunately this is the only bike ride this week due to our hiking plans. The rain in the last three days did not help it either!
Tegernsee: Neureuth trails mtb - August 20
The Neureth bike ride was planned during the week to avoid crowds but due to workload we did not manage to go. We postponed it to Saturday morning although t...
Lenggries: Geierstein trail mtb - August 20
Danka is away this weekend therefore we decided to go for a bike ride on Friday late afternoon. We previously cycled through Hirschtalsattel during our short...
Schliersee: Gindelalm trail mtb - August 20
This was the first ride to Gindelalm this year, we usually visit this part much earlier. I had it planned 3 weeks ago but the storm came and I rather stayed...
Tegernsee: Nesselscheibe trails mtb - July 20
We have not been able to cycle afer work in the last weeks. The situation changed this week for Martin at least, he went trail hunting around Nesselscheibe, ...
Karwendel extended mtb round - Jun 20
4 day weekend, what a treat! We planned something special for this occasion, namely a 3-days MTB tour through Karwendel, Bardenberg Alps and Bavarian Prealps...
Tegernsee: Leonhardstein hike - Jun 20
This post will be short, as was the trek. We wanted to do a quick recovery trek after two days of mtb and chose to go to Leonhardstein. It looks impressive f...
Benediktbauern to Bayrischzell multiday mtb - May 20
We have been working from home for the past months and felt the need to leave the home office. Luckily some hotels and guest houses have started opening up, ...
Chiemgau Alps: Around Hochgern mtb - May 20
Martin planned a trip around Hochgern with a backup option to bike around if its too busy up there. By the time we arrived, the parking lot was PACKED. Black...
Chiemgau alps: Traunstein weekend mtb - May 20
The weekend with Peter and Barbora in Traunstein area. The first day just a short ride to StoiĂźer alm as we arrived later in the afternoon on Saturday. The p...
Chiemgau Alps: Kampenwand trail hunting mtb - May 20
Weekend mode on! This one is social, as finally some of those restrictions imposed due to corona are getting a bit more relaxed.
Mangfall mountains: Breitenstein mtb trails - Apr 20
Well, well, getting up at 6 am when you finally get a day off (bank holiday here in Bavaria) is not ideal, but sitting at home is even worse.
Chiemgau Alps: Hochries mtb trails - Apr 20
Originally we had planned a tour that was crossing the border to Austria, which was not ideal due to the covid situation. We changed the route on the fly and...
Neureuth - Schliersee - Tegernsee mtb - Apr 20
One of our first mountain bike rides is always Gindelalmschneid. The ascent to Gindelalmschneid provides sufficient steepnes to make us sweat and the descent...
Mangfall mountains: Taubenberg mtb - Apr 20
Being inactive on our blog in the last weeks due to not an easy situation for all of us. Much appreciated we can at least do “non-adrenaline” activities outs...
Lenggries: Seekarkreuz hike - Jan 20
Happy New Year everyone!
Mangfall mountains: Wendelstein hike - Dec 19
Wendelstein is considered a must do tour while in Munich. So we decided Anke should not miss this one. Luckily the weather played along and we were able to d...
Tegernsee: Grubereck (von Kreuth) hike - Dec 19
And the fun goes on! A dear friend of mine, Anke, is visiting for a week and we planned to spend our time wisely: in the mountains of course!
Chiemgau Alps: Hochgern hike - Dec 19
The last weekend we spent with friends in Traunstein. We decided to go for a hike on our way back on Sunday. Hochgern is on the way, a hut opened all year. ...
Chiemgau Alps: Kampenwand mtb round - Nov 19
Although it is almost the end of November, the weather was playing along for some biking. I did a round tour around Kampenwand. Actually the route was more l...
Bad Tölz: Zwiesel trail mtb - Nov 19
The very last minute visit was planned on Friday. We agreed to go for hike and bike on Saturday - find a trail that can be accessed by a bike and also by foo...
Berchtesgaden small round extended hike - Nov 19
There was a bank holiday 1st of November in Bavaria. Friends from Slovakia came over and we decided to visit Berchtesgaden national park for this 3 days week...
Chiemgau Alps: Zwiesel trails mtb - Oct 19
When we hiked to Salzburger Hochtron yesterday (I will provide report later this week), there were 2 near peaks in our interest. Zweisel and Hochstaufen. We ...
Berchtesgadener Alps: Salzburger Hochtron hike - Oct 19
I have been in the bike saddle most of the time in the recent days. We used every spare evening or weekend to go on wheels. The Indian summer was surprisingl...
Chiemgau Alps: Around Hochries mtb - Oct 19
This week was full of bike trips. Yesterday bike tour was quite demanding for me, it was mainly due to steep climbing sections with rough terrain. Not to men...
Mangfall mountains: Around BrĂĽnnstein mtb - Oct 19
I found good rated bike tour around BrĂĽnnstein where I have not been yet. I was in Sudelfeld with Danka the previous year. We did not go to BrĂĽnnsteinhaus bu...
Chiemgau Alps: Around Högl mtb - Sept 19
We often see church in Anger from the highway as we ride to Munich. It is nicely light during the night. We went to explore trails above Anger - around Högl....
Chiemgau Alps: Teisenberg mtb - Sept 19
We started early for our pre-work bike ride to StoiĂźer Alm from Traunstein with Peter. Our target is clear as we are looking at Teisenberg right from the beg...
Mangfall mountains: Schwarzenberg mtb - Sept 19
We are currently having Indian summer in Germany! Because of the sunny weekend, roads were jammed around Munich. We found schwarzenberg bike trail near Bad F...
Tegernsee: Baumgartenschneid trail mtb - Sept 19
Days are becoming shorter, with less opportunities for post-work rides like this one :/. Soon, we will need to do early morning trips rather than evening ones.
Chiemgau Alps: Kampenwand Reitweg trail mtb - Sept 19
After work ride with Peter in Kampenwand area in the middle of the week. We had sunny weather in Munich therefore we could not resist to cycle after work. I ...
Schliersee: Gindelalm mtb - Sept 19
There is going to be change in the weather in the following days. I noticed in the forecast for Tirol light snowing predicted, should I be worried winter is ...
Mangfall mountains: Jenbachtal mtb - August 19
I am back home ! It’s been a month away. I am still processing material, I will blog more about the hiking in Tajikistan in the following days.
Walchensee: Sachenbach mtb - July 19
We returned on our bikes to a place I hiked few weeks back (Sonnenspitz blog post). We discovered few singletracks in the area but one I did not back then wa...
Karwendel: Schöttelkarspitze & Soiernsee round hike - Jun 19
I discovered Soiernsee this week while browsing Instagram and I immediately checked if we can sleep over in the hut (Soiernhaus). There were 5 places left on...
Mangfall mountains: Wendelstein and Lacherspitze evening hike - Jun 19
Beautiful afterwork hike in Bayrischzell, Wendelstein and Lacherspitz. It was supposed to be the hottest day of the year in Munich - forecast 35 degrees. Des...
Tegernsee: Blauberg hike - Jun 19
I am visiting 4th in the row the same destination - right below Tegernsee. You know that feeling when you hike and find singletracks? Then you ride your bike...
Tegernsee: Around Rossstein mtb - Jun 19
We found few singletracks when we hiked to Rossstein 2 weeks ago. The most appealing is the Röhrlmoos Alm trail (it can be found also on trailforks) and one ...
Tegernsee: Rossstein hike - Jun 19
I went for a bike ride around Hischberg this week. While I was ascending, I noticed hut between two rocky summits - this was the Tegernseer hut. Our friends...
Tegernsee: Hirschberg mtb - June 19
My yesterday after work mountain-biking round started in Kreuth. We haven’t visited this area yet. This was my first discovery ride to look around what has b...
Kochel am See: Sonnenspitz - Jochberg - Rabenkopf hike - Jun 19
I have alredy been to area near to Kochel am See twice but never started our hike directly from Kochel am See. Once we ended our bike weekend here, the secon...
Chiemgau Alps: Kampenwand hike - May 19
Almost all our friends are our of town, another day to go hiking alone. I decided to go to Kampenwand. We did one skitour there the last winter (I consider i...
Schliersee: Bodenschneidhaus bike - Apr 19
The warm spring weather arrived this week to Munich ! Welcome sunshine, bike time. As snow is still in upper places, we were considering one of lakes nearby....
Spitzingsee: Ă–sterreichische Schinder bike & skitour - Apr 19
I was looking for spring skitour close to Munich. I have seen some people already doing bike & ski in Karwendel, however I could not find anyone to join ...
Mangfall mountains: Brecherspitz-Westgipfel skitour - Mar 19
Our morning skitour started today very early. We were at 6 am at the Kurvenlift parking lot. There were 5 of us, brave early birds. Our destination is Breche...
Garmisch: Osterfelderkopf skitour - Mar 19
Due to weather and no one to join me for skitour today, I chose Garmisch skitour on ski piste, destination Osterfelderkopf. Saturday morning was warm and sun...
Bayrischzell: Sudelfeld evening skitour - Mar 19
Sudelfeld ski resort keeps its slopes opened (with restrictions) for evening skitours every Wednesday. There are two routes for skitourers, we chose the rout...
Spitzingsee: Rotwand weekend skitour - Feb 19
We had visitors last weekend and planned an outdoor weekend for that occasion. The weather played along and actually surprised us: a warm front came our way ...
Spiztingsee: Rauhkopf skitour - Feb 19
It snowed a bit in the beginning of this week, thus I chose to do short pre-work skitour on Wednesday to check conditions prior the weekend. I started earlie...
Garmisch: Wank skitour - Jan 19
Wank was on the list as it has nice views towards Garmish and peaks surrounding it (checked the header picture here?). The forecast for today was not much pr...
Spitzingsee: Rosskopf skitour - Jan 19
We started our skitour season on Rosskopf a month ago but from another side - Kurvenlift. We climbed most of the time on piste. This time, I was alone and de...
Spitzingsee: Taubenstein skitour - Jan 19
Second week of avalanche danger 4 in Prealps here. What can we do ? Wait, wait until we get to more stable days? After few days of waiting, here we come - 3 ...
Chiemgau Alps: Kampenwand skitour - Jan 19
It’s been snowing almost the entire week, making us very happy but the situation got critical in some parts of Prealps. Lot of huts are closed due to the sno...
Bad Tölz: Blomberg skitour - Jan 19
Road situation was more relaxed than yesterday in South Bavaria. Today’s skitour is in Blomberg, close to Bad Tolz. I have mountainbiked here in the last yea...
Lenggries: Brauneck skitour - Jan 19
It has been constantly snowing in Munich since yesterday. We were warned prior the weekend but who would think 20 cm of snow can cause today’s traffic. Our 5...
Tegernsee: Hirschberg skitour - Dec 18
The second skitour this year started on the piste again, in Hirschberg. There is just enough snow to start the tour from the parking lot. The piste was fine ...
Spitzingsee: The season is on! - RoĂźkopf - Dec 18
It has been colder lately with couple of days when it was snowing. The conditions are finally good enough for an (on-piste) ski tour. The idea was to choose ...
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Chiemgau: Schwarzenberg trails mtb - Oct 21
The sunny and warm days came back! The first October weekend was very good weather, perfect for bike ride.
Chiemgau: Kampenwand trails mtb - July 21
I realized while looking at Kampenwand map area we never reached Steinlingalm by bike. The last time we bailed out earlier at Gorialm.
Schliersee: Huberspitz trails mtb - June 21
We had limited time the previous weekend, we were looking for shorter ride. Schliersee offers couple of shorther trails like Huberspitz trails.
Tegernsee: Wasenkogel and Holzeralm trails mtb - Sept 20
I returned to Nesselscheibe this week to do alternative trails. I spotted a few the last time on the way back, they looked more rough compared to what I plan...
Bad Tölz: Rechelkopf west trail mtb - Sept 20
We had very good weather on Friday-Saturday this week if we compare the previous days. The visibility was great, we were able to see Karwendel on the way dow...
Schliersee: Rohnberg trials - August 20
Unfortunately this is the only bike ride this week due to our hiking plans. The rain in the last three days did not help it either!
Tegernsee: Neureuth trails mtb - August 20
The Neureth bike ride was planned during the week to avoid crowds but due to workload we did not manage to go. We postponed it to Saturday morning although t...
Lenggries: Geierstein trail mtb - August 20
Danka is away this weekend therefore we decided to go for a bike ride on Friday late afternoon. We previously cycled through Hirschtalsattel during our short...
Schliersee: Gindelalm trail mtb - August 20
This was the first ride to Gindelalm this year, we usually visit this part much earlier. I had it planned 3 weeks ago but the storm came and I rather stayed...
Tegernsee: Nesselscheibe trails mtb - July 20
We have not been able to cycle afer work in the last weeks. The situation changed this week for Martin at least, he went trail hunting around Nesselscheibe, ...
Davos mtb weekend - Jun 20
The weekend weather forecast around Munich did not look promising. Most of our friends were out of town as well. Martin got an idea to check the weather furt...
Karwendel extended mtb round - Jun 20
4 day weekend, what a treat! We planned something special for this occasion, namely a 3-days MTB tour through Karwendel, Bardenberg Alps and Bavarian Prealps...
Benediktbauern to Bayrischzell multiday mtb - May 20
We have been working from home for the past months and felt the need to leave the home office. Luckily some hotels and guest houses have started opening up, ...
Chiemgau Alps: Around Hochgern mtb - May 20
Martin planned a trip around Hochgern with a backup option to bike around if its too busy up there. By the time we arrived, the parking lot was PACKED. Black...
Chiemgau alps: Traunstein weekend mtb - May 20
The weekend with Peter and Barbora in Traunstein area. The first day just a short ride to StoiĂźer alm as we arrived later in the afternoon on Saturday. The p...
Chiemgau Alps: Kampenwand trail hunting mtb - May 20
Weekend mode on! This one is social, as finally some of those restrictions imposed due to corona are getting a bit more relaxed.
Mangfall mountains: Breitenstein mtb trails - Apr 20
Well, well, getting up at 6 am when you finally get a day off (bank holiday here in Bavaria) is not ideal, but sitting at home is even worse.
Chiemgau Alps: Hochries mtb trails - Apr 20
Originally we had planned a tour that was crossing the border to Austria, which was not ideal due to the covid situation. We changed the route on the fly and...
Neureuth - Schliersee - Tegernsee mtb - Apr 20
One of our first mountain bike rides is always Gindelalmschneid. The ascent to Gindelalmschneid provides sufficient steepnes to make us sweat and the descent...
Mangfall mountains: Taubenberg mtb - Apr 20
Being inactive on our blog in the last weeks due to not an easy situation for all of us. Much appreciated we can at least do “non-adrenaline” activities outs...
Chiemgau Alps: Kampenwand mtb round - Nov 19
Although it is almost the end of November, the weather was playing along for some biking. I did a round tour around Kampenwand. Actually the route was more l...
Bad Tölz: Zwiesel trail mtb - Nov 19
The very last minute visit was planned on Friday. We agreed to go for hike and bike on Saturday - find a trail that can be accessed by a bike and also by foo...
Chiemgau Alps: Zwiesel trails mtb - Oct 19
When we hiked to Salzburger Hochtron yesterday (I will provide report later this week), there were 2 near peaks in our interest. Zweisel and Hochstaufen. We ...
Chiemgau Alps: Around Hochries mtb - Oct 19
This week was full of bike trips. Yesterday bike tour was quite demanding for me, it was mainly due to steep climbing sections with rough terrain. Not to men...
Mangfall mountains: Around BrĂĽnnstein mtb - Oct 19
I found good rated bike tour around BrĂĽnnstein where I have not been yet. I was in Sudelfeld with Danka the previous year. We did not go to BrĂĽnnsteinhaus bu...
Chiemgau Alps: Around Högl mtb - Sept 19
We often see church in Anger from the highway as we ride to Munich. It is nicely light during the night. We went to explore trails above Anger - around Högl....
Chiemgau Alps: Teisenberg mtb - Sept 19
We started early for our pre-work bike ride to StoiĂźer Alm from Traunstein with Peter. Our target is clear as we are looking at Teisenberg right from the beg...
Mangfall mountains: Schwarzenberg mtb - Sept 19
We are currently having Indian summer in Germany! Because of the sunny weekend, roads were jammed around Munich. We found schwarzenberg bike trail near Bad F...
Jesenik: Rychlebske and Lipovske trails, Czech republic mtb - Sept 19
We had wonderful 3-days weekend in Jesenik at the end of September. We wanted to come to Jesenik for some time as we hear so much about it. We arrived to Jes...
Martinske hole Slovakia mtb - Sept 19
We went back home to Slovakia for couple of days. We brought our bikes with us, since there are some very nice trials and tracks in Velka Fatra. Couple of fr...
Tegernsee: Baumgartenschneid trail mtb - Sept 19
Days are becoming shorter, with less opportunities for post-work rides like this one :/. Soon, we will need to do early morning trips rather than evening ones.
Chiemgau Alps: Kampenwand Reitweg trail mtb - Sept 19
After work ride with Peter in Kampenwand area in the middle of the week. We had sunny weather in Munich therefore we could not resist to cycle after work. I ...
Schliersee: Gindelalm mtb - Sept 19
There is going to be change in the weather in the following days. I noticed in the forecast for Tirol light snowing predicted, should I be worried winter is ...
Saalbach mtb weekend - August 19
We have not been much biking this year, not to mention almost barely visited Alps on wheels. It was about the time to meet few friends and hit some trails. W...
Mangfall mountains: Jenbachtal mtb - August 19
I am back home ! It’s been a month away. I am still processing material, I will blog more about the hiking in Tajikistan in the following days.
Walchensee: Sachenbach mtb - July 19
We returned on our bikes to a place I hiked few weeks back (Sonnenspitz blog post). We discovered few singletracks in the area but one I did not back then wa...
Tegernsee: Around Rossstein mtb - Jun 19
We found few singletracks when we hiked to Rossstein 2 weeks ago. The most appealing is the Röhrlmoos Alm trail (it can be found also on trailforks) and one ...
Tegernsee: Hirschberg mtb - June 19
My yesterday after work mountain-biking round started in Kreuth. We haven’t visited this area yet. This was my first discovery ride to look around what has b...
Schliersee: Bodenschneidhaus bike - Apr 19
The warm spring weather arrived this week to Munich ! Welcome sunshine, bike time. As snow is still in upper places, we were considering one of lakes nearby....
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Georgia: Mestia - Usghuli 8 days hike - Sept 21
We visited Georgia in September the previous year. The plan was to be 2 weeks in the mountains crossing various mountain ranges. Similar group of people I wa...
Lechtal Alps: Around Namlos Wetterspitze hike - Sept 21
We started from Namlos village, there are free parking spots along the road.
Karwendel: Bayerkarspitze ridge hike - Nov 20
Time for another ridge hike! Our tour started at the parking lot near OswaldhĂĽtte, Karwendel. Be warned about parking only in designed areas as this is natur...
Chiemgau Alps: Staufen ridge hike - Nov 20
The Zwiesel-Hochstaufen ridge is visible when driving from Salzburg to Munich from the highway. It is imposant long ridge through a couple of peaks. I wanted...
Allgäu: Tegelberg - Säuling 2 days hike - Oct 20
We did not spend many night at the huts this year, the last time I was in Ester mountains for a weekend. Therefore we started looking if something was availa...
Garmisch: Alpspitze hike - Sept 20
Let’s return back to September. We took the day off on Friday, to avoid crowds in Garmisch and to enjoy finally some warmer days. Our start of the day was ve...
Garmisch: Estergebirge (Ester mountains) 2 days hike - Aug 20
We did not explored Ester Mountains so far. We only hiked/skitoured to Wank peak, but we never gone further east from Garmisch Partenkirchen. The mountain ra...
Wilder Kaiser: Ellmauer Halt hike - July 20
We go to the mountains A LOT. On bikes, on foot, on skis, we even climb them sometimes. However, we have never been on a ferrata together, even though there ...
Tegernsee: Leonhardstein hike - Jun 20
This post will be short, as was the trek. We wanted to do a quick recovery trek after two days of mtb and chose to go to Leonhardstein. It looks impressive f...
Hissar range: part of our Fann mountains adventure - part 4 - Aug 19
The last days of our hiking in Tajikistan. We completed the Fann mountains cross hike and ended up in Iskanderkul. As I mentioned in the part 3, we did not w...
Fann mountains: Big Allo lake to Iskanderkul, part 3 - Aug 19
I haven’t managed to complete part 3 of our Fann hike in 2019. Time to resume in 2020.
Lenggries: Seekarkreuz hike - Jan 20
Happy New Year everyone!
Mangfall mountains: Wendelstein hike - Dec 19
Wendelstein is considered a must do tour while in Munich. So we decided Anke should not miss this one. Luckily the weather played along and we were able to d...
Tegernsee: Grubereck (von Kreuth) hike - Dec 19
And the fun goes on! A dear friend of mine, Anke, is visiting for a week and we planned to spend our time wisely: in the mountains of course!
Chiemgau Alps: Hochgern hike - Dec 19
The last weekend we spent with friends in Traunstein. We decided to go for a hike on our way back on Sunday. Hochgern is on the way, a hut opened all year. ...
Berchtesgaden small round extended hike - Nov 19
There was a bank holiday 1st of November in Bavaria. Friends from Slovakia came over and we decided to visit Berchtesgaden national park for this 3 days week...
Berchtesgadener Alps: Salzburger Hochtron hike - Oct 19
I have been in the bike saddle most of the time in the recent days. We used every spare evening or weekend to go on wheels. The Indian summer was surprisingl...
Nepal Day 8: Muktinath to Jomsom (via Kagbeni)- Oct 19
I thought that this day would be about getting from A to B, no major adventures involved. Well, I was wrong! Once you leave Muktinath you have to walk on the...
Nepal Day 7: Thorong La Pas - Oct 19
We made it though the Thorong La Pas(5416m)! To do so we had to get up at 3.30am in order to leave little past 4am. Most of the people in the packed teahouse...
Nepal Day 6: Letdar to High Camp - Oct 19
Now we’re talkig! (aka hiking). Todays plan is to get to the 4880m. I have never been in such an altitude. The highest I ever got was 4005m. So yeah, we are ...
Nepal Day 5: Manang to Letdar - Oct 19
We slept so well last night that we were late for breakfast and left later than expected (7.45am). Acclimatization was going good so far, just for one thing ...
Nepal Day 4: Ice Lake circuit - Oct 19
Rest day may have many meanings. Around here, rest day means that you sleep in the same place for two nights but you still go hiking during the day. MANY oth...
Nepal Day 3: Upper Pissang to Manang - Oct 19
We left Pissang around seven to “beat the traffic”, even though there was actually not that many people. We took the north route through Ghyaru(3730m) and Ng...
Nepal Day 2: Chame to Upper Pissang (North Route)- Oct 19
We did not make it to Chame (2650m) previous day, as was originally planned. Instead we stayed in Dharaphani. We got on the jeep around 6.30 to drive to Cham...
Nepal Day 1: Kathmandu to Chame - Oct 19
Travelling usually means getting on a train, bus or an occasional plane. Well, not this time. The plane was just the beginning to get to Kathmandu. Thats whe...
Fann mountains - Mutnoe lake (Zamok, Energia), part 2 - Jul 19
Before we leave Alaudin lakes to explore Mutnoe lake, I should mention how we packed as I received often a question how heavy were our backpacks, what was in...
Fann mountains - Kulikalon lakes, part 1 - Jul 19
This is going to be slightly longer blog post than our weekend trip reports. We were 5 of us (myself, Stefan, Ivana, Tomas and Martin) going to Uzbekistan an...
KitzbĂĽhel: GroĂźer Rettenstein - Aug 19
We biked twice in KitzbĂĽhel the last year and we had great time there on bike trails. Including, the longest singletrack in Tirol - Fleckalm trail. As we did...
Karwendel: Schöttelkarspitze & Soiernsee round hike - Jun 19
I discovered Soiernsee this week while browsing Instagram and I immediately checked if we can sleep over in the hut (Soiernhaus). There were 5 places left on...
Mangfall mountains: Wendelstein and Lacherspitze evening hike - Jun 19
Beautiful afterwork hike in Bayrischzell, Wendelstein and Lacherspitz. It was supposed to be the hottest day of the year in Munich - forecast 35 degrees. Des...
Tegernsee: Blauberg hike - Jun 19
I am visiting 4th in the row the same destination - right below Tegernsee. You know that feeling when you hike and find singletracks? Then you ride your bike...
Tegernsee: Rossstein hike - Jun 19
I went for a bike ride around Hischberg this week. While I was ascending, I noticed hut between two rocky summits - this was the Tegernseer hut. Our friends...
Kochel am See: Sonnenspitz - Jochberg - Rabenkopf hike - Jun 19
I have alredy been to area near to Kochel am See twice but never started our hike directly from Kochel am See. Once we ended our bike weekend here, the secon...
Chiemgau Alps: Kampenwand hike - May 19
Almost all our friends are our of town, another day to go hiking alone. I decided to go to Kampenwand. We did one skitour there the last winter (I consider i...
Höllen mountains: Feuerkogel weekend hike - May 19
We always admire mountains around Salzburg when driving by. Our friends planned a hike in this area. It is a bit far away from Munich but fine if we go for 2...
Walchensee: Heimgarten and Herzogstand hike - May 19
The weather got worse after our previous skitour in Karwendel on Wednesday. We decided to hike instead of skitouring. This was my first hike this year (winte...
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Lenggries: Seekarkreuz and Schönberg skitour - Jan 22
Sorry for not posting more than 2 years any skitour adventure. I realized the last one is from 2019, pretty sad, isn’t it? We did plenty skitours, we just ha...
Karwendel: HochglĂĽckscharte skitour - May 19
As result of the temperatures drop earlier this week in Munich, we have snow in Prealps again. Couple of webcams I checked showed new snow - places that were...
Spitzingsee: Ă–sterreichische Schinder bike & skitour - Apr 19
I was looking for spring skitour close to Munich. I have seen some people already doing bike & ski in Karwendel, however I could not find anyone to join ...
Wilder Kaiser: weekend skitouring - Apr 19
We did skitouring 2 weeks ago in Wilder Kaiser and enjoyed it very much. Thus we decided to come back with friends. We were 7 of us this time. Danka got sudd...
Wilder Kaiser: Schönwetterfensterl skitour - Mar 19
Martin has been watching Wilder Kaiser skitour activites since early January this year, when the first report about Kaiserexpress skitour came to his attenti...
Mangfall mountains: Brecherspitz-Westgipfel skitour - Mar 19
Our morning skitour started today very early. We were at 6 am at the Kurvenlift parking lot. There were 5 of us, brave early birds. Our destination is Breche...
Garmisch: Osterfelderkopf skitour - Mar 19
Due to weather and no one to join me for skitour today, I chose Garmisch skitour on ski piste, destination Osterfelderkopf. Saturday morning was warm and sun...
Bayrischzell: Sudelfeld evening skitour - Mar 19
Sudelfeld ski resort keeps its slopes opened (with restrictions) for evening skitours every Wednesday. There are two routes for skitourers, we chose the rout...
Mangfall mountains: Trainsjoch and Ascherjoch, Tirol skitour - Mar 19
Parkplatz Mariandlalm was empty at 8 am today, only one car there. The beginning of the tour towards Mariandlalm is possible to skin up however snow was gone...
Wilder Kaiser: Ellmauer Tor skitour - Feb 19
We did not have much snowfall this week, the only day with snowflakes was Friday. The weekend was sunny again, both days. As we were skiing in Zugspitze skir...
Spitzingsee: Rotwand weekend skitour - Feb 19
We had visitors last weekend and planned an outdoor weekend for that occasion. The weather played along and actually surprised us: a warm front came our way ...
Spiztingsee: Rauhkopf skitour - Feb 19
It snowed a bit in the beginning of this week, thus I chose to do short pre-work skitour on Wednesday to check conditions prior the weekend. I started earlie...
Velka Raca skitour (Slovakia) - Feb 19
Todays forcast was not very favorble so we have chosen an easy on-piste tour. Our dear friend Martin acompanied us. We went to a ski resort called Velka Raca...
Karwendel: Schönalmjoch skitour - Jan 19
We were not lucky having sunny weekends this month. Today was an exception! Group of people from IMG (International Munich group) organized skitour to Schöna...
Garmisch: Wank skitour - Jan 19
Wank was on the list as it has nice views towards Garmish and peaks surrounding it (checked the header picture here?). The forecast for today was not much pr...
Spitzingsee: Rosskopf skitour - Jan 19
We started our skitour season on Rosskopf a month ago but from another side - Kurvenlift. We climbed most of the time on piste. This time, I was alone and de...
Spitzingsee: Taubenstein skitour - Jan 19
Second week of avalanche danger 4 in Prealps here. What can we do ? Wait, wait until we get to more stable days? After few days of waiting, here we come - 3 ...
Chiemgau Alps: Kampenwand skitour - Jan 19
It’s been snowing almost the entire week, making us very happy but the situation got critical in some parts of Prealps. Lot of huts are closed due to the sno...
Bad Tölz: Blomberg skitour - Jan 19
Road situation was more relaxed than yesterday in South Bavaria. Today’s skitour is in Blomberg, close to Bad Tolz. I have mountainbiked here in the last yea...
Lenggries: Brauneck skitour - Jan 19
It has been constantly snowing in Munich since yesterday. We were warned prior the weekend but who would think 20 cm of snow can cause today’s traffic. Our 5...
High Tatras: Lomnicke sedlo skitour (Slovakia) - Dec 18
Yet another on piste ski tour, starting in Tatranska Lomnica skiresort. We do this ski tour at least once a year because the skiing is quite rewarding especi...
Vratna: Poludnovy grun skitour (Slovakia) - Dec 18
This is going to be a short entry of our first ski tour in Slovakia. We went to Poludnovy Grun in Ski resort Vratna-Paseky (Mala Fatra range), close to Zilin...
Tegernsee: Hirschberg skitour - Dec 18
The second skitour this year started on the piste again, in Hirschberg. There is just enough snow to start the tour from the parking lot. The piste was fine ...
Spitzingsee: The season is on! - RoĂźkopf - Dec 18
It has been colder lately with couple of days when it was snowing. The conditions are finally good enough for an (on-piste) ski tour. The idea was to choose ...
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Chiemgau: Schwarzenberg trails mtb - Oct 21
The sunny and warm days came back! The first October weekend was very good weather, perfect for bike ride.
Chiemgau: Kampenwand trails mtb - July 21
I realized while looking at Kampenwand map area we never reached Steinlingalm by bike. The last time we bailed out earlier at Gorialm.
Schliersee: Huberspitz trails mtb - June 21
We had limited time the previous weekend, we were looking for shorter ride. Schliersee offers couple of shorther trails like Huberspitz trails.
Tegernsee: Wasenkogel and Holzeralm trails mtb - Sept 20
I returned to Nesselscheibe this week to do alternative trails. I spotted a few the last time on the way back, they looked more rough compared to what I plan...
Bad Tölz: Rechelkopf west trail mtb - Sept 20
We had very good weather on Friday-Saturday this week if we compare the previous days. The visibility was great, we were able to see Karwendel on the way dow...
Schliersee: Rohnberg trials - August 20
Unfortunately this is the only bike ride this week due to our hiking plans. The rain in the last three days did not help it either!
Tegernsee: Neureuth trails mtb - August 20
The Neureth bike ride was planned during the week to avoid crowds but due to workload we did not manage to go. We postponed it to Saturday morning although t...
Lenggries: Geierstein trail mtb - August 20
Danka is away this weekend therefore we decided to go for a bike ride on Friday late afternoon. We previously cycled through Hirschtalsattel during our short...
Schliersee: Gindelalm trail mtb - August 20
This was the first ride to Gindelalm this year, we usually visit this part much earlier. I had it planned 3 weeks ago but the storm came and I rather stayed...
Tegernsee: Nesselscheibe trails mtb - July 20
We have not been able to cycle afer work in the last weeks. The situation changed this week for Martin at least, he went trail hunting around Nesselscheibe, ...
Benediktbauern to Bayrischzell multiday mtb - May 20
We have been working from home for the past months and felt the need to leave the home office. Luckily some hotels and guest houses have started opening up, ...
Chiemgau Alps: Around Hochgern mtb - May 20
Martin planned a trip around Hochgern with a backup option to bike around if its too busy up there. By the time we arrived, the parking lot was PACKED. Black...
Chiemgau alps: Traunstein weekend mtb - May 20
The weekend with Peter and Barbora in Traunstein area. The first day just a short ride to StoiĂźer alm as we arrived later in the afternoon on Saturday. The p...
Chiemgau Alps: Kampenwand trail hunting mtb - May 20
Weekend mode on! This one is social, as finally some of those restrictions imposed due to corona are getting a bit more relaxed.
Mangfall mountains: Breitenstein mtb trails - Apr 20
Well, well, getting up at 6 am when you finally get a day off (bank holiday here in Bavaria) is not ideal, but sitting at home is even worse.
Chiemgau Alps: Hochries mtb trails - Apr 20
Originally we had planned a tour that was crossing the border to Austria, which was not ideal due to the covid situation. We changed the route on the fly and...
Neureuth - Schliersee - Tegernsee mtb - Apr 20
One of our first mountain bike rides is always Gindelalmschneid. The ascent to Gindelalmschneid provides sufficient steepnes to make us sweat and the descent...
Mangfall mountains: Taubenberg mtb - Apr 20
Being inactive on our blog in the last weeks due to not an easy situation for all of us. Much appreciated we can at least do “non-adrenaline” activities outs...
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Chiemgau: Schwarzenberg trails mtb - Oct 21
The sunny and warm days came back! The first October weekend was very good weather, perfect for bike ride.
Chiemgau: Kampenwand trails mtb - July 21
I realized while looking at Kampenwand map area we never reached Steinlingalm by bike. The last time we bailed out earlier at Gorialm.
Chiemgau Alps: Staufen ridge hike - Nov 20
The Zwiesel-Hochstaufen ridge is visible when driving from Salzburg to Munich from the highway. It is imposant long ridge through a couple of peaks. I wanted...
Chiemgau Alps: Around Hochgern mtb - May 20
Martin planned a trip around Hochgern with a backup option to bike around if its too busy up there. By the time we arrived, the parking lot was PACKED. Black...
Chiemgau alps: Traunstein weekend mtb - May 20
The weekend with Peter and Barbora in Traunstein area. The first day just a short ride to StoiĂźer alm as we arrived later in the afternoon on Saturday. The p...
Chiemgau Alps: Kampenwand trail hunting mtb - May 20
Weekend mode on! This one is social, as finally some of those restrictions imposed due to corona are getting a bit more relaxed.
Chiemgau Alps: Hochries mtb trails - Apr 20
Originally we had planned a tour that was crossing the border to Austria, which was not ideal due to the covid situation. We changed the route on the fly and...
Chiemgau Alps: Hochgern hike - Dec 19
The last weekend we spent with friends in Traunstein. We decided to go for a hike on our way back on Sunday. Hochgern is on the way, a hut opened all year. ...
Chiemgau Alps: Kampenwand mtb round - Nov 19
Although it is almost the end of November, the weather was playing along for some biking. I did a round tour around Kampenwand. Actually the route was more l...
Chiemgau Alps: Zwiesel trails mtb - Oct 19
When we hiked to Salzburger Hochtron yesterday (I will provide report later this week), there were 2 near peaks in our interest. Zweisel and Hochstaufen. We ...
Chiemgau Alps: Around Hochries mtb - Oct 19
This week was full of bike trips. Yesterday bike tour was quite demanding for me, it was mainly due to steep climbing sections with rough terrain. Not to men...
Chiemgau Alps: Around Högl mtb - Sept 19
We often see church in Anger from the highway as we ride to Munich. It is nicely light during the night. We went to explore trails above Anger - around Högl....
Chiemgau Alps: Teisenberg mtb - Sept 19
We started early for our pre-work bike ride to StoiĂźer Alm from Traunstein with Peter. Our target is clear as we are looking at Teisenberg right from the beg...
Chiemgau Alps: Kampenwand Reitweg trail mtb - Sept 19
After work ride with Peter in Kampenwand area in the middle of the week. We had sunny weather in Munich therefore we could not resist to cycle after work. I ...
Chiemgau Alps: Kampenwand hike - May 19
Almost all our friends are our of town, another day to go hiking alone. I decided to go to Kampenwand. We did one skitour there the last winter (I consider i...
Chiemgau Alps: Kampenwand skitour - Jan 19
It’s been snowing almost the entire week, making us very happy but the situation got critical in some parts of Prealps. Lot of huts are closed due to the sno...
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Lenggries: Seekarkreuz and Schönberg skitour - Jan 22
Sorry for not posting more than 2 years any skitour adventure. I realized the last one is from 2019, pretty sad, isn’t it? We did plenty skitours, we just ha...
Walchensee: Heimgarten and Herzogstand hike - May 19
The weather got worse after our previous skitour in Karwendel on Wednesday. We decided to hike instead of skitouring. This was my first hike this year (winte...
Spitzingsee: Rotwand weekend skitour - Feb 19
We had visitors last weekend and planned an outdoor weekend for that occasion. The weather played along and actually surprised us: a warm front came our way ...
Spiztingsee: Rauhkopf skitour - Feb 19
It snowed a bit in the beginning of this week, thus I chose to do short pre-work skitour on Wednesday to check conditions prior the weekend. I started earlie...
Karwendel: Schönalmjoch skitour - Jan 19
We were not lucky having sunny weekends this month. Today was an exception! Group of people from IMG (International Munich group) organized skitour to Schöna...
Garmisch: Wank skitour - Jan 19
Wank was on the list as it has nice views towards Garmish and peaks surrounding it (checked the header picture here?). The forecast for today was not much pr...
Spitzingsee: Rosskopf skitour - Jan 19
We started our skitour season on Rosskopf a month ago but from another side - Kurvenlift. We climbed most of the time on piste. This time, I was alone and de...
Spitzingsee: Taubenstein skitour - Jan 19
Second week of avalanche danger 4 in Prealps here. What can we do ? Wait, wait until we get to more stable days? After few days of waiting, here we come - 3 ...
Chiemgau Alps: Kampenwand skitour - Jan 19
It’s been snowing almost the entire week, making us very happy but the situation got critical in some parts of Prealps. Lot of huts are closed due to the sno...
Bad Tölz: Blomberg skitour - Jan 19
Road situation was more relaxed than yesterday in South Bavaria. Today’s skitour is in Blomberg, close to Bad Tolz. I have mountainbiked here in the last yea...
Lenggries: Brauneck skitour - Jan 19
It has been constantly snowing in Munich since yesterday. We were warned prior the weekend but who would think 20 cm of snow can cause today’s traffic. Our 5...
Tegernsee: Hirschberg skitour - Dec 18
The second skitour this year started on the piste again, in Hirschberg. There is just enough snow to start the tour from the parking lot. The piste was fine ...
Spitzingsee: The season is on! - RoĂźkopf - Dec 18
It has been colder lately with couple of days when it was snowing. The conditions are finally good enough for an (on-piste) ski tour. The idea was to choose ...
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Velka Raca skitour (Slovakia) - Feb 19
Todays forcast was not very favorble so we have chosen an easy on-piste tour. Our dear friend Martin acompanied us. We went to a ski resort called Velka Raca...
Karwendel: Schönalmjoch skitour - Jan 19
We were not lucky having sunny weekends this month. Today was an exception! Group of people from IMG (International Munich group) organized skitour to Schöna...
Garmisch: Wank skitour - Jan 19
Wank was on the list as it has nice views towards Garmish and peaks surrounding it (checked the header picture here?). The forecast for today was not much pr...
Spitzingsee: Rosskopf skitour - Jan 19
We started our skitour season on Rosskopf a month ago but from another side - Kurvenlift. We climbed most of the time on piste. This time, I was alone and de...
Spitzingsee: Taubenstein skitour - Jan 19
Second week of avalanche danger 4 in Prealps here. What can we do ? Wait, wait until we get to more stable days? After few days of waiting, here we come - 3 ...
Chiemgau Alps: Kampenwand skitour - Jan 19
It’s been snowing almost the entire week, making us very happy but the situation got critical in some parts of Prealps. Lot of huts are closed due to the sno...
Bad Tölz: Blomberg skitour - Jan 19
Road situation was more relaxed than yesterday in South Bavaria. Today’s skitour is in Blomberg, close to Bad Tolz. I have mountainbiked here in the last yea...
Lenggries: Brauneck skitour - Jan 19
It has been constantly snowing in Munich since yesterday. We were warned prior the weekend but who would think 20 cm of snow can cause today’s traffic. Our 5...
High Tatras: Lomnicke sedlo skitour (Slovakia) - Dec 18
Yet another on piste ski tour, starting in Tatranska Lomnica skiresort. We do this ski tour at least once a year because the skiing is quite rewarding especi...
Vratna: Poludnovy grun skitour (Slovakia) - Dec 18
This is going to be a short entry of our first ski tour in Slovakia. We went to Poludnovy Grun in Ski resort Vratna-Paseky (Mala Fatra range), close to Zilin...
Tegernsee: Hirschberg skitour - Dec 18
The second skitour this year started on the piste again, in Hirschberg. There is just enough snow to start the tour from the parking lot. The piste was fine ...
Spitzingsee: The season is on! - RoĂźkopf - Dec 18
It has been colder lately with couple of days when it was snowing. The conditions are finally good enough for an (on-piste) ski tour. The idea was to choose ...
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Tegernsee: Wasenkogel and Holzeralm trails mtb - Sept 20
I returned to Nesselscheibe this week to do alternative trails. I spotted a few the last time on the way back, they looked more rough compared to what I plan...
Tegernsee: Neureuth trails mtb - August 20
The Neureth bike ride was planned during the week to avoid crowds but due to workload we did not manage to go. We postponed it to Saturday morning although t...
Tegernsee: Nesselscheibe trails mtb - July 20
We have not been able to cycle afer work in the last weeks. The situation changed this week for Martin at least, he went trail hunting around Nesselscheibe, ...
Tegernsee: Leonhardstein hike - Jun 20
This post will be short, as was the trek. We wanted to do a quick recovery trek after two days of mtb and chose to go to Leonhardstein. It looks impressive f...
Neureuth - Schliersee - Tegernsee mtb - Apr 20
One of our first mountain bike rides is always Gindelalmschneid. The ascent to Gindelalmschneid provides sufficient steepnes to make us sweat and the descent...
Tegernsee: Grubereck (von Kreuth) hike - Dec 19
And the fun goes on! A dear friend of mine, Anke, is visiting for a week and we planned to spend our time wisely: in the mountains of course!
Tegernsee: Baumgartenschneid trail mtb - Sept 19
Days are becoming shorter, with less opportunities for post-work rides like this one :/. Soon, we will need to do early morning trips rather than evening ones.
Tegernsee: Blauberg hike - Jun 19
I am visiting 4th in the row the same destination - right below Tegernsee. You know that feeling when you hike and find singletracks? Then you ride your bike...
Tegernsee: Around Rossstein mtb - Jun 19
We found few singletracks when we hiked to Rossstein 2 weeks ago. The most appealing is the Röhrlmoos Alm trail (it can be found also on trailforks) and one ...
Tegernsee: Rossstein hike - Jun 19
I went for a bike ride around Hischberg this week. While I was ascending, I noticed hut between two rocky summits - this was the Tegernseer hut. Our friends...
Tegernsee: Hirschberg mtb - June 19
My yesterday after work mountain-biking round started in Kreuth. We haven’t visited this area yet. This was my first discovery ride to look around what has b...
Tegernsee: Hirschberg skitour - Dec 18
The second skitour this year started on the piste again, in Hirschberg. There is just enough snow to start the tour from the parking lot. The piste was fine ...
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Lenggries: Seekarkreuz and Schönberg skitour - Jan 22
Sorry for not posting more than 2 years any skitour adventure. I realized the last one is from 2019, pretty sad, isn’t it? We did plenty skitours, we just ha...
Karwendel: HochglĂĽckscharte skitour - May 19
As result of the temperatures drop earlier this week in Munich, we have snow in Prealps again. Couple of webcams I checked showed new snow - places that were...
Spitzingsee: Ă–sterreichische Schinder bike & skitour - Apr 19
I was looking for spring skitour close to Munich. I have seen some people already doing bike & ski in Karwendel, however I could not find anyone to join ...
Wilder Kaiser: weekend skitouring - Apr 19
We did skitouring 2 weeks ago in Wilder Kaiser and enjoyed it very much. Thus we decided to come back with friends. We were 7 of us this time. Danka got sudd...
Wilder Kaiser: Schönwetterfensterl skitour - Mar 19
Martin has been watching Wilder Kaiser skitour activites since early January this year, when the first report about Kaiserexpress skitour came to his attenti...
Mangfall mountains: Brecherspitz-Westgipfel skitour - Mar 19
Our morning skitour started today very early. We were at 6 am at the Kurvenlift parking lot. There were 5 of us, brave early birds. Our destination is Breche...
Garmisch: Osterfelderkopf skitour - Mar 19
Due to weather and no one to join me for skitour today, I chose Garmisch skitour on ski piste, destination Osterfelderkopf. Saturday morning was warm and sun...
Bayrischzell: Sudelfeld evening skitour - Mar 19
Sudelfeld ski resort keeps its slopes opened (with restrictions) for evening skitours every Wednesday. There are two routes for skitourers, we chose the rout...
Mangfall mountains: Trainsjoch and Ascherjoch, Tirol skitour - Mar 19
Parkplatz Mariandlalm was empty at 8 am today, only one car there. The beginning of the tour towards Mariandlalm is possible to skin up however snow was gone...
Wilder Kaiser: Ellmauer Tor skitour - Feb 19
We did not have much snowfall this week, the only day with snowflakes was Friday. The weekend was sunny again, both days. As we were skiing in Zugspitze skir...
Spitzingsee: Rotwand weekend skitour - Feb 19
We had visitors last weekend and planned an outdoor weekend for that occasion. The weather played along and actually surprised us: a warm front came our way ...
Spiztingsee: Rauhkopf skitour - Feb 19
It snowed a bit in the beginning of this week, thus I chose to do short pre-work skitour on Wednesday to check conditions prior the weekend. I started earlie...
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Lenggries: Seekarkreuz and Schönberg skitour - Jan 22
Sorry for not posting more than 2 years any skitour adventure. I realized the last one is from 2019, pretty sad, isn’t it? We did plenty skitours, we just ha...
Karwendel: HochglĂĽckscharte skitour - May 19
As result of the temperatures drop earlier this week in Munich, we have snow in Prealps again. Couple of webcams I checked showed new snow - places that were...
Spitzingsee: Ă–sterreichische Schinder bike & skitour - Apr 19
I was looking for spring skitour close to Munich. I have seen some people already doing bike & ski in Karwendel, however I could not find anyone to join ...
Wilder Kaiser: weekend skitouring - Apr 19
We did skitouring 2 weeks ago in Wilder Kaiser and enjoyed it very much. Thus we decided to come back with friends. We were 7 of us this time. Danka got sudd...
Wilder Kaiser: Schönwetterfensterl skitour - Mar 19
Martin has been watching Wilder Kaiser skitour activites since early January this year, when the first report about Kaiserexpress skitour came to his attenti...
Mangfall mountains: Brecherspitz-Westgipfel skitour - Mar 19
Our morning skitour started today very early. We were at 6 am at the Kurvenlift parking lot. There were 5 of us, brave early birds. Our destination is Breche...
Garmisch: Osterfelderkopf skitour - Mar 19
Due to weather and no one to join me for skitour today, I chose Garmisch skitour on ski piste, destination Osterfelderkopf. Saturday morning was warm and sun...
Bayrischzell: Sudelfeld evening skitour - Mar 19
Sudelfeld ski resort keeps its slopes opened (with restrictions) for evening skitours every Wednesday. There are two routes for skitourers, we chose the rout...
Mangfall mountains: Trainsjoch and Ascherjoch, Tirol skitour - Mar 19
Parkplatz Mariandlalm was empty at 8 am today, only one car there. The beginning of the tour towards Mariandlalm is possible to skin up however snow was gone...
Wilder Kaiser: Ellmauer Tor skitour - Feb 19
We did not have much snowfall this week, the only day with snowflakes was Friday. The weekend was sunny again, both days. As we were skiing in Zugspitze skir...
Spitzingsee: Rotwand weekend skitour - Feb 19
We had visitors last weekend and planned an outdoor weekend for that occasion. The weather played along and actually surprised us: a warm front came our way ...
Spiztingsee: Rauhkopf skitour - Feb 19
It snowed a bit in the beginning of this week, thus I chose to do short pre-work skitour on Wednesday to check conditions prior the weekend. I started earlie...
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Lenggries: Seekarkreuz and Schönberg skitour - Jan 22
Sorry for not posting more than 2 years any skitour adventure. I realized the last one is from 2019, pretty sad, isn’t it? We did plenty skitours, we just ha...
Karwendel: HochglĂĽckscharte skitour - May 19
As result of the temperatures drop earlier this week in Munich, we have snow in Prealps again. Couple of webcams I checked showed new snow - places that were...
Spitzingsee: Ă–sterreichische Schinder bike & skitour - Apr 19
I was looking for spring skitour close to Munich. I have seen some people already doing bike & ski in Karwendel, however I could not find anyone to join ...
Wilder Kaiser: weekend skitouring - Apr 19
We did skitouring 2 weeks ago in Wilder Kaiser and enjoyed it very much. Thus we decided to come back with friends. We were 7 of us this time. Danka got sudd...
Wilder Kaiser: Schönwetterfensterl skitour - Mar 19
Martin has been watching Wilder Kaiser skitour activites since early January this year, when the first report about Kaiserexpress skitour came to his attenti...
Mangfall mountains: Brecherspitz-Westgipfel skitour - Mar 19
Our morning skitour started today very early. We were at 6 am at the Kurvenlift parking lot. There were 5 of us, brave early birds. Our destination is Breche...
Garmisch: Osterfelderkopf skitour - Mar 19
Due to weather and no one to join me for skitour today, I chose Garmisch skitour on ski piste, destination Osterfelderkopf. Saturday morning was warm and sun...
Bayrischzell: Sudelfeld evening skitour - Mar 19
Sudelfeld ski resort keeps its slopes opened (with restrictions) for evening skitours every Wednesday. There are two routes for skitourers, we chose the rout...
Mangfall mountains: Trainsjoch and Ascherjoch, Tirol skitour - Mar 19
Parkplatz Mariandlalm was empty at 8 am today, only one car there. The beginning of the tour towards Mariandlalm is possible to skin up however snow was gone...
Wilder Kaiser: Ellmauer Tor skitour - Feb 19
We did not have much snowfall this week, the only day with snowflakes was Friday. The weekend was sunny again, both days. As we were skiing in Zugspitze skir...
Spitzingsee: Rotwand weekend skitour - Feb 19
We had visitors last weekend and planned an outdoor weekend for that occasion. The weather played along and actually surprised us: a warm front came our way ...
Spiztingsee: Rauhkopf skitour - Feb 19
It snowed a bit in the beginning of this week, thus I chose to do short pre-work skitour on Wednesday to check conditions prior the weekend. I started earlie...
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Mangfall mountains: Breitenstein mtb trails - Apr 20
Well, well, getting up at 6 am when you finally get a day off (bank holiday here in Bavaria) is not ideal, but sitting at home is even worse.
Mangfall mountains: Taubenberg mtb - Apr 20
Being inactive on our blog in the last weeks due to not an easy situation for all of us. Much appreciated we can at least do “non-adrenaline” activities outs...
Mangfall mountains: Wendelstein hike - Dec 19
Wendelstein is considered a must do tour while in Munich. So we decided Anke should not miss this one. Luckily the weather played along and we were able to d...
Mangfall mountains: Around BrĂĽnnstein mtb - Oct 19
I found good rated bike tour around BrĂĽnnstein where I have not been yet. I was in Sudelfeld with Danka the previous year. We did not go to BrĂĽnnsteinhaus bu...
Mangfall mountains: Schwarzenberg mtb - Sept 19
We are currently having Indian summer in Germany! Because of the sunny weekend, roads were jammed around Munich. We found schwarzenberg bike trail near Bad F...
Mangfall mountains: Jenbachtal mtb - August 19
I am back home ! It’s been a month away. I am still processing material, I will blog more about the hiking in Tajikistan in the following days.
Mangfall mountains: Wendelstein and Lacherspitze evening hike - Jun 19
Beautiful afterwork hike in Bayrischzell, Wendelstein and Lacherspitz. It was supposed to be the hottest day of the year in Munich - forecast 35 degrees. Des...
Mangfall mountains: Brecherspitz-Westgipfel skitour - Mar 19
Our morning skitour started today very early. We were at 6 am at the Kurvenlift parking lot. There were 5 of us, brave early birds. Our destination is Breche...
Mangfall mountains: Trainsjoch and Ascherjoch, Tirol skitour - Mar 19
Parkplatz Mariandlalm was empty at 8 am today, only one car there. The beginning of the tour towards Mariandlalm is possible to skin up however snow was gone...
nepal
Nepal Day 8: Muktinath to Jomsom (via Kagbeni)- Oct 19
I thought that this day would be about getting from A to B, no major adventures involved. Well, I was wrong! Once you leave Muktinath you have to walk on the...
Nepal Day 7: Thorong La Pas - Oct 19
We made it though the Thorong La Pas(5416m)! To do so we had to get up at 3.30am in order to leave little past 4am. Most of the people in the packed teahouse...
Nepal Day 6: Letdar to High Camp - Oct 19
Now we’re talkig! (aka hiking). Todays plan is to get to the 4880m. I have never been in such an altitude. The highest I ever got was 4005m. So yeah, we are ...
Nepal Day 5: Manang to Letdar - Oct 19
We slept so well last night that we were late for breakfast and left later than expected (7.45am). Acclimatization was going good so far, just for one thing ...
Nepal Day 4: Ice Lake circuit - Oct 19
Rest day may have many meanings. Around here, rest day means that you sleep in the same place for two nights but you still go hiking during the day. MANY oth...
Nepal Day 3: Upper Pissang to Manang - Oct 19
We left Pissang around seven to “beat the traffic”, even though there was actually not that many people. We took the north route through Ghyaru(3730m) and Ng...
Nepal Day 2: Chame to Upper Pissang (North Route)- Oct 19
We did not make it to Chame (2650m) previous day, as was originally planned. Instead we stayed in Dharaphani. We got on the jeep around 6.30 to drive to Cham...
Nepal Day 1: Kathmandu to Chame - Oct 19
Travelling usually means getting on a train, bus or an occasional plane. Well, not this time. The plane was just the beginning to get to Kathmandu. Thats whe...
spitzingsee
Spitzingsee: Ă–sterreichische Schinder bike & skitour - Apr 19
I was looking for spring skitour close to Munich. I have seen some people already doing bike & ski in Karwendel, however I could not find anyone to join ...
Spitzingsee: Rotwand weekend skitour - Feb 19
We had visitors last weekend and planned an outdoor weekend for that occasion. The weather played along and actually surprised us: a warm front came our way ...
Spiztingsee: Rauhkopf skitour - Feb 19
It snowed a bit in the beginning of this week, thus I chose to do short pre-work skitour on Wednesday to check conditions prior the weekend. I started earlie...
Spitzingsee: Rosskopf skitour - Jan 19
We started our skitour season on Rosskopf a month ago but from another side - Kurvenlift. We climbed most of the time on piste. This time, I was alone and de...
Spitzingsee: Taubenstein skitour - Jan 19
Second week of avalanche danger 4 in Prealps here. What can we do ? Wait, wait until we get to more stable days? After few days of waiting, here we come - 3 ...
Spitzingsee: The season is on! - RoĂźkopf - Dec 18
It has been colder lately with couple of days when it was snowing. The conditions are finally good enough for an (on-piste) ski tour. The idea was to choose ...
tirol
Saalbach mtb weekend - August 19
We have not been much biking this year, not to mention almost barely visited Alps on wheels. It was about the time to meet few friends and hit some trails. W...
KitzbĂĽhel: GroĂźer Rettenstein - Aug 19
We biked twice in KitzbĂĽhel the last year and we had great time there on bike trails. Including, the longest singletrack in Tirol - Fleckalm trail. As we did...
Höllen mountains: Feuerkogel weekend hike - May 19
We always admire mountains around Salzburg when driving by. Our friends planned a hike in this area. It is a bit far away from Munich but fine if we go for 2...
Mangfall mountains: Trainsjoch and Ascherjoch, Tirol skitour - Mar 19
Parkplatz Mariandlalm was empty at 8 am today, only one car there. The beginning of the tour towards Mariandlalm is possible to skin up however snow was gone...
Wilder Kaiser: Ellmauer Tor skitour - Feb 19
We did not have much snowfall this week, the only day with snowflakes was Friday. The weekend was sunny again, both days. As we were skiing in Zugspitze skir...
Karwendel: Schönalmjoch skitour - Jan 19
We were not lucky having sunny weekends this month. Today was an exception! Group of people from IMG (International Munich group) organized skitour to Schöna...
schliersee
Schliersee: Huberspitz trails mtb - June 21
We had limited time the previous weekend, we were looking for shorter ride. Schliersee offers couple of shorther trails like Huberspitz trails.
Schliersee: Rohnberg trials - August 20
Unfortunately this is the only bike ride this week due to our hiking plans. The rain in the last three days did not help it either!
Schliersee: Gindelalm trail mtb - August 20
This was the first ride to Gindelalm this year, we usually visit this part much earlier. I had it planned 3 weeks ago but the storm came and I rather stayed...
Neureuth - Schliersee - Tegernsee mtb - Apr 20
One of our first mountain bike rides is always Gindelalmschneid. The ascent to Gindelalmschneid provides sufficient steepnes to make us sweat and the descent...
Schliersee: Gindelalm mtb - Sept 19
There is going to be change in the weather in the following days. I noticed in the forecast for Tirol light snowing predicted, should I be worried winter is ...
Schliersee: Bodenschneidhaus bike - Apr 19
The warm spring weather arrived this week to Munich ! Welcome sunshine, bike time. As snow is still in upper places, we were considering one of lakes nearby....
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Chiemgau: Kampenwand trails mtb - July 21
I realized while looking at Kampenwand map area we never reached Steinlingalm by bike. The last time we bailed out earlier at Gorialm.
Schliersee: Huberspitz trails mtb - June 21
We had limited time the previous weekend, we were looking for shorter ride. Schliersee offers couple of shorther trails like Huberspitz trails.
Tegernsee: Wasenkogel and Holzeralm trails mtb - Sept 20
I returned to Nesselscheibe this week to do alternative trails. I spotted a few the last time on the way back, they looked more rough compared to what I plan...
Bad Tölz: Rechelkopf west trail mtb - Sept 20
We had very good weather on Friday-Saturday this week if we compare the previous days. The visibility was great, we were able to see Karwendel on the way dow...
Schliersee: Rohnberg trials - August 20
Unfortunately this is the only bike ride this week due to our hiking plans. The rain in the last three days did not help it either!
Tegernsee: Neureuth trails mtb - August 20
The Neureth bike ride was planned during the week to avoid crowds but due to workload we did not manage to go. We postponed it to Saturday morning although t...
karwendel
Karwendel: Bayerkarspitze ridge hike - Nov 20
Time for another ridge hike! Our tour started at the parking lot near OswaldhĂĽtte, Karwendel. Be warned about parking only in designed areas as this is natur...
Karwendel extended mtb round - Jun 20
4 day weekend, what a treat! We planned something special for this occasion, namely a 3-days MTB tour through Karwendel, Bardenberg Alps and Bavarian Prealps...
Karwendel: Schöttelkarspitze & Soiernsee round hike - Jun 19
I discovered Soiernsee this week while browsing Instagram and I immediately checked if we can sleep over in the hut (Soiernhaus). There were 5 places left on...
Karwendel: HochglĂĽckscharte skitour - May 19
As result of the temperatures drop earlier this week in Munich, we have snow in Prealps again. Couple of webcams I checked showed new snow - places that were...
Karwendel: Schönalmjoch skitour - Jan 19
We were not lucky having sunny weekends this month. Today was an exception! Group of people from IMG (International Munich group) organized skitour to Schöna...
slovakia
Martinske hole Slovakia mtb - Sept 19
We went back home to Slovakia for couple of days. We brought our bikes with us, since there are some very nice trials and tracks in Velka Fatra. Couple of fr...
Velka Raca skitour (Slovakia) - Feb 19
Todays forcast was not very favorble so we have chosen an easy on-piste tour. Our dear friend Martin acompanied us. We went to a ski resort called Velka Raca...
High Tatras: Lomnicke sedlo skitour (Slovakia) - Dec 18
Yet another on piste ski tour, starting in Tatranska Lomnica skiresort. We do this ski tour at least once a year because the skiing is quite rewarding especi...
Vratna: Poludnovy grun skitour (Slovakia) - Dec 18
This is going to be a short entry of our first ski tour in Slovakia. We went to Poludnovy Grun in Ski resort Vratna-Paseky (Mala Fatra range), close to Zilin...
garmisch
Garmisch: Alpspitze hike - Sept 20
Let’s return back to September. We took the day off on Friday, to avoid crowds in Garmisch and to enjoy finally some warmer days. Our start of the day was ve...
Garmisch: Estergebirge (Ester mountains) 2 days hike - Aug 20
We did not explored Ester Mountains so far. We only hiked/skitoured to Wank peak, but we never gone further east from Garmisch Partenkirchen. The mountain ra...
Garmisch: Osterfelderkopf skitour - Mar 19
Due to weather and no one to join me for skitour today, I chose Garmisch skitour on ski piste, destination Osterfelderkopf. Saturday morning was warm and sun...
Garmisch: Wank skitour - Jan 19
Wank was on the list as it has nice views towards Garmish and peaks surrounding it (checked the header picture here?). The forecast for today was not much pr...
wilder kaiser
Wilder Kaiser: Ellmauer Halt hike - July 20
We go to the mountains A LOT. On bikes, on foot, on skis, we even climb them sometimes. However, we have never been on a ferrata together, even though there ...
Wilder Kaiser: weekend skitouring - Apr 19
We did skitouring 2 weeks ago in Wilder Kaiser and enjoyed it very much. Thus we decided to come back with friends. We were 7 of us this time. Danka got sudd...
Wilder Kaiser: Schönwetterfensterl skitour - Mar 19
Martin has been watching Wilder Kaiser skitour activites since early January this year, when the first report about Kaiserexpress skitour came to his attenti...
Wilder Kaiser: Ellmauer Tor skitour - Feb 19
We did not have much snowfall this week, the only day with snowflakes was Friday. The weekend was sunny again, both days. As we were skiing in Zugspitze skir...
fannmountains
Hissar range: part of our Fann mountains adventure - part 4 - Aug 19
The last days of our hiking in Tajikistan. We completed the Fann mountains cross hike and ended up in Iskanderkul. As I mentioned in the part 3, we did not w...
Fann mountains: Big Allo lake to Iskanderkul, part 3 - Aug 19
I haven’t managed to complete part 3 of our Fann hike in 2019. Time to resume in 2020.
Fann mountains - Mutnoe lake (Zamok, Energia), part 2 - Jul 19
Before we leave Alaudin lakes to explore Mutnoe lake, I should mention how we packed as I received often a question how heavy were our backpacks, what was in...
Fann mountains - Kulikalon lakes, part 1 - Jul 19
This is going to be slightly longer blog post than our weekend trip reports. We were 5 of us (myself, Stefan, Ivana, Tomas and Martin) going to Uzbekistan an...
tajikistan
Hissar range: part of our Fann mountains adventure - part 4 - Aug 19
The last days of our hiking in Tajikistan. We completed the Fann mountains cross hike and ended up in Iskanderkul. As I mentioned in the part 3, we did not w...
Fann mountains: Big Allo lake to Iskanderkul, part 3 - Aug 19
I haven’t managed to complete part 3 of our Fann hike in 2019. Time to resume in 2020.
Fann mountains - Mutnoe lake (Zamok, Energia), part 2 - Jul 19
Before we leave Alaudin lakes to explore Mutnoe lake, I should mention how we packed as I received often a question how heavy were our backpacks, what was in...
Fann mountains - Kulikalon lakes, part 1 - Jul 19
This is going to be slightly longer blog post than our weekend trip reports. We were 5 of us (myself, Stefan, Ivana, Tomas and Martin) going to Uzbekistan an...
lenggries
Lenggries: Geierstein trail mtb - August 20
Danka is away this weekend therefore we decided to go for a bike ride on Friday late afternoon. We previously cycled through Hirschtalsattel during our short...
Lenggries: Seekarkreuz hike - Jan 20
Happy New Year everyone!
Lenggries: Brauneck skitour - Jan 19
It has been constantly snowing in Munich since yesterday. We were warned prior the weekend but who would think 20 cm of snow can cause today’s traffic. Our 5...
bad tölz
Bad Tölz: Zwiesel trail mtb - Nov 19
The very last minute visit was planned on Friday. We agreed to go for hike and bike on Saturday - find a trail that can be accessed by a bike and also by foo...
Bad Tölz: Blomberg skitour - Jan 19
Road situation was more relaxed than yesterday in South Bavaria. Today’s skitour is in Blomberg, close to Bad Tolz. I have mountainbiked here in the last yea...
walchensee
Walchensee: Sachenbach mtb - July 19
We returned on our bikes to a place I hiked few weeks back (Sonnenspitz blog post). We discovered few singletracks in the area but one I did not back then wa...
Walchensee: Heimgarten and Herzogstand hike - May 19
The weather got worse after our previous skitour in Karwendel on Wednesday. We decided to hike instead of skitouring. This was my first hike this year (winte...
ferrata
Garmisch: Alpspitze hike - Sept 20
Let’s return back to September. We took the day off on Friday, to avoid crowds in Garmisch and to enjoy finally some warmer days. Our start of the day was ve...
Wilder Kaiser: Ellmauer Halt hike - July 20
We go to the mountains A LOT. On bikes, on foot, on skis, we even climb them sometimes. However, we have never been on a ferrata together, even though there ...
mala fatra
Vratna: Poludnovy grun skitour (Slovakia) - Dec 18
This is going to be a short entry of our first ski tour in Slovakia. We went to Poludnovy Grun in Ski resort Vratna-Paseky (Mala Fatra range), close to Zilin...
vysoke tatry
High Tatras: Lomnicke sedlo skitour (Slovakia) - Dec 18
Yet another on piste ski tour, starting in Tatranska Lomnica skiresort. We do this ski tour at least once a year because the skiing is quite rewarding especi...
bayrischzell
Bayrischzell: Sudelfeld evening skitour - Mar 19
Sudelfeld ski resort keeps its slopes opened (with restrictions) for evening skitours every Wednesday. There are two routes for skitourers, we chose the rout...
höllen mountains
Höllen mountains: Feuerkogel weekend hike - May 19
We always admire mountains around Salzburg when driving by. Our friends planned a hike in this area. It is a bit far away from Munich but fine if we go for 2...
kochel am see
Kochel am See: Sonnenspitz - Jochberg - Rabenkopf hike - Jun 19
I have alredy been to area near to Kochel am See twice but never started our hike directly from Kochel am See. Once we ended our bike weekend here, the secon...
kitzbĂĽhel
KitzbĂĽhel: GroĂźer Rettenstein - Aug 19
We biked twice in KitzbĂĽhel the last year and we had great time there on bike trails. Including, the longest singletrack in Tirol - Fleckalm trail. As we did...
martinske hole
Martinske hole Slovakia mtb - Sept 19
We went back home to Slovakia for couple of days. We brought our bikes with us, since there are some very nice trials and tracks in Velka Fatra. Couple of fr...
czech republic
Jesenik: Rychlebske and Lipovske trails, Czech republic mtb - Sept 19
We had wonderful 3-days weekend in Jesenik at the end of September. We wanted to come to Jesenik for some time as we hear so much about it. We arrived to Jes...
jesenik
Jesenik: Rychlebske and Lipovske trails, Czech republic mtb - Sept 19
We had wonderful 3-days weekend in Jesenik at the end of September. We wanted to come to Jesenik for some time as we hear so much about it. We arrived to Jes...
berchtesgadener alps
Berchtesgadener Alps: Salzburger Hochtron hike - Oct 19
I have been in the bike saddle most of the time in the recent days. We used every spare evening or weekend to go on wheels. The Indian summer was surprisingl...
berchtesgaden
Berchtesgaden small round extended hike - Nov 19
There was a bank holiday 1st of November in Bavaria. Friends from Slovakia came over and we decided to visit Berchtesgaden national park for this 3 days week...
multiday
Benediktbauern to Bayrischzell multiday mtb - May 20
We have been working from home for the past months and felt the need to leave the home office. Luckily some hotels and guest houses have started opening up, ...
switzerland
Davos mtb weekend - Jun 20
The weekend weather forecast around Munich did not look promising. Most of our friends were out of town as well. Martin got an idea to check the weather furt...
davos
Davos mtb weekend - Jun 20
The weekend weather forecast around Munich did not look promising. Most of our friends were out of town as well. Martin got an idea to check the weather furt...
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Lenggries: Geierstein trail mtb - August 20
Danka is away this weekend therefore we decided to go for a bike ride on Friday late afternoon. We previously cycled through Hirschtalsattel during our short...
allgau
Allgäu: Tegelberg - Säuling 2 days hike - Oct 20
We did not spend many night at the huts this year, the last time I was in Ester mountains for a weekend. Therefore we started looking if something was availa...
lechtal alps
Lechtal Alps: Around Namlos Wetterspitze hike - Sept 21
We started from Namlos village, there are free parking spots along the road.
georgia
Georgia: Mestia - Usghuli 8 days hike - Sept 21
We visited Georgia in September the previous year. The plan was to be 2 weeks in the mountains crossing various mountain ranges. Similar group of people I wa...
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Chiemgau: Schwarzenberg trails mtb - Oct 21
The sunny and warm days came back! The first October weekend was very good weather, perfect for bike ride.