12. November 2020 / Maike Wittreck
(Werbung/advertisement) All photos were taken with the SIGMA fp (exception: the ones where you can see the wee little camera, obviously) The huts were all booked, the weather forecast had been filled with nothing but sunshine for days and we knew the route by heart. Five days, that’s how long we’d be hiking through the Alps [...]
read full article10. Juli 2019 / Maike Wittreck
Lately I haven’t really mentioned our Planet, conservation or the climate crisis on social media, at least not as much as I used to. It’s not because I stopped caring. I still do care. A lot. So much, that when the day is already a bad one, I start crying just thinking about everything that is [...]
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Last December my Mum and I drove 500km down to Bavaria to visit my Grandma who moved there about twenty years ago. The perks of having a Grandma who lives close to the Austrian border are pretty obvious: Alps, alps, alps! Needless to say that I was not only happy to see her again but also [...]
read full article11. Oktober 2017 / Maike Wittreck
Finally. Here’s my last diary entry of our six-day-adventure in the Alps. If you haven’t read about days one to five you can do that here. Hiking Day 6 - 14/9/17 Hochjoch Hospiz (2413 m) - Kurzras Ever since we started the E5 I had been dreading the day I would wake up to a hundred blisters [...]
read full article9. Oktober 2017 / Maike Wittreck
If 20 years ago someone had told me that at the age of 27 I’d hike almost 11 hours in one day I would have laughed in their face! When I was younger hiking seemed to be the most miserable, boring and time-consuming thing someone could ever do and I bet a lot of you can [...]
read full article7. Oktober 2017 / Maike Wittreck
If you asked me to describe day four of our Alpine Crossing in a few words they would be: short cuts, Winter and Kaiserschmarrn. But if three words are just not enough for your taste then you are more than welcome to read on: Hiking Day 4 - 12/9/17 Zams - Braunschweiger Hut (2759 m) [...]
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„What on earth were we thinking?“ – a question we had been asking ourselves a lot that day and if you want to know why exactly then you just have to read on and you will understand: Hiking Day 3 - 11/9/17 Memminger Hut (2242 m) - Zams I don’t think my legs and feet have [...]
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Let us continue our journey across the Alps! Day 1 (you can read all about it here) led us all the way from Oberstdorf, Germany to our first accommodation of the trip which was Kemptner Hut at 1846m in the Allgäu Alps. Here’s what the next part of the track brought upon us… Hiking Day 2 - [...]
read full article1. Oktober 2017 / Maike Wittreck
I would let my feet speak, because they’d love to tell you a thing or two about it but unfortunately they can’t talk. Well, it’s a good thing they can’t because I would have to listen to some serious rant about how I could have done something like this to them. The E5 is a 3,200 [...]
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