Falkenstein

Today we woke up to it snowing in Bad Harzburg! My friend also sent me a message saying that we were supposed to get freezing rain in Berlin this evening so we wanted to make sure we got home before that. I had wanted one last snow day before heading home so we headed up to the pass again and there was so much snow on the road! It was supposed to get warmer there in the afternoon so I was hoping it would be okay when we left and we parked in the big parking lot so we would hopefully not get stuck. Well we bundled up and headed off only to turn back a few minutes later as it was so stormy and miserable up there! So much wind blowing the snow in our faces which is not very fun to walk around in and we looked at where we were going to walk and it would be blowing us on one side the entire way…plus it was so stormy you couldn’t see anything (and we were going to hike to the top of a small mt top so would be nice to be able to see the views!) so we decided to do something else.

Since I had not planned anything else I thought let’s go back to those rocks we walked around on in Sept 2023 as that was fun. I was glad we did that as the traffic going down the mountain was already backing up, but by the time we got down it was still snowing, but not windy and roads were clear. So off we went to visit the Teufelsmauer rocks!

I was surprised that there was still a bit of snow there as it was down in the flat farmlands! So we still got our snow day! We walked all around the rocks and it was so fun!! It was interesting because if you looked to one side of the rocks it was all white, the other was mostly green! The rocks were almost the snow division line! We were also glad that the rocks were sandstone so they were gritty and not slippery or else we would not have been able to do it. It was also way less popular - we saw 4 people the whole time we were there! So it was lovely wandering the rocks and enjoying the snow! As soon as we finished eating lunch it started to snow and the walk back through the forest had no views! The storm has caught up the us!

The drive home was a lot slower going than I expected! The freeway was covered in snow! For most of the way home which was a bit crazy. We were behind a snowplow for a while until it turned off so that was really slow, but not as much snow. The road kept clearing up for a few min and then back to snow so it took a lot longer to get home than normal, but wasn’t actually too bad. Luckily. I was really glad we weren’t out later when it was getting colder and potentially freezing!

When we got to Berlin it was snowing, but the roads were clear so we unpacked and dropped off the car and relaxed a bit. I just looked out the window and there is so much snow here now! When we got here you could see the ground and now it is covered! A fitting end to a very snowy weekend! Too bad it is supposed to warm up and rain tomorrow.

This was a really great weekend and it is now on the list of things to do next winter as well! We might actually go back for another long weekend this winter as I love the snow so much!Read more