Description
Hiking tour from Lenggries (679 meters AMSL) to Roß- und Buchstein (1698, 1701 meters AMSL) via Lenggrieser and Tegernseer Hütte.
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Seeking out adventures in an era of comfort and pandemics (part 1): Bavarian Prealps
Prelude
Modern life in 1st world societies has removed hardship and danger from everyday human existence for the most part. Practically speaking, this is even more so during the current Covid-19 pandemic.
A great percentage of the office employees can (or have to) work from home, and the sole reason to leave your house is to buy food and other essentials in the grocery a few hundred meters (in the worst case) away.
So the temptation to immerse oneself entirely in alternate realities like movies, TV sports, soap operas, social …
Franconian Switzerland
Introduction
The global pandemic has thwarted a great deal of my (and probably everyone else’s) scheduled holidays and confined me to my apartment in Nuremberg since mid-March.
Fortunately, solitary outdoor exercises were and are still allowed to date, and so I’ve made the best of the situation and cycled extensively through solitary landscapes in Franconia.
The Franconian Switzerland is an upland in Upper Franconia not far off from Nuremberg (which is situated in Middle Franconia).
I visited the Franconian Switzerland fairly often during my student days with my buddies, for …