Hiking in the Texel Mountains

We had a longer tour in the Texel Mountains planned for today, so we got up early. We started our hike at „Birkenwald“ restaurant and followed some easy forest trails first. On the way, we passed many farms and met lots of friendly animals like goats, sheep, cows, horses, rabbits, ducks and dogs. After „Hochganghaus“, we climbed up to a more alpine terrain above 2400m. There‘s some lakes in between the mountains, quite nice actually. From here, our goal was to climb mount Tschigat with its 3000m. We jumped from rock to rock and had to hike up a tricky chimney. On the last part, it was definitely more climbing than hiking. Unfortunately, the clouds blocked our view once we had reached the summit. However, on the way down, the sun came out again. We stopped at „Lodner Haus“ for a snack and a beer before hiking down a beautiful valley back to our car. All in all, a fun and remote tour of about 2200m of elevation gain and 24km.Read more