Rothaarsteig

On my first day of the Rothaarsteig I ended up walking until 10 pm until I arrived at the first sleeping option. I was about to walk past the hut to push further on, but I saw a light in the hut and thought, only NST hikers would sleep there. That's how I met Hiking Dancer and I decided to stay at the hut for the night. I slept on a wooden hammock.

After saying goodbye in the morning I started into a hot sunny day of springs. I knew I was about to meet more NST hikers and I kept contact with a Trail Angel providing Trail Magic on this section. At one spring I was searching for them and after a while I assumed I missed them somehow. Finally after continuing a few miles later I met Penny and Mo. We chatted for a while and then I continued to meet the Trail Angel. He picked me up in the next village to drive to an ice cream parlor. In the evening I joined a sunset party on an observation tower, before I walked the last miles to my sleeping place.

On this day I took my time and had a really long lunch break sitting in front of an accommodation. I started late so I kept walking until it got dark. Because I didn't find any shelter I went a little down off the trail to sleep underneath an overhanging roof. An hour later a storm hit really hard and I had to move for a while into the most sheltered corner to stay dry. Even the power was cut off for several minutes.

I apologized to the woman, who came out of the house in the morning but she was friendly and showed understanding. I started the last full day on the Rothaarsteig with the highest peak yet to climb. Nothing crazy with 843 m and the weather was a little bit rainy over the day so the view was bad. In the evening I stopped earlier because I found a public toilet with power outlets and it seemed to be a nice and quiet place without anybody disturbing me.

On my last day I went 10 km to Brilon, the end of the Rothaarsteig. A nice little town and I bought myself some snacks to celebrate the end. I also bought new pants but I didn't find a fitting and colourful hiking shirt. Well for now I am on one shirt. Czytaj więcej