Category: Mittelweg 2020

Day seven would be the longest of the trail, an exhausting 35.5-km hike from Furtwangen to Lenzkirch. I had a pretty good night’s sleep and set off at around 8:30. It had rained during the night, but there was an icy wind blowing and the forecast said it would be mostly dry until mid-afternoon, which… Continue reading The Black Forest Mittelweg – Days 7 to 9

After setting off from the Hotel Hirsch with its gloomy Russians, I quickly found myself deep in the woods. Most of the morning was spent on a very narrow trail for hikers only through the very thick, beautiful and occasionally magical forest. The trail in fact followed the old border between Baden and Württemberg. This… Continue reading Black Forest Mittelweg – Days 4 to 6

On arriving at the station in Pforzheim, you first need to walk around 2.5 km across the town to the inn at Kupferhammer where the Westweg, Mittelweg and Ostweg all begin. Pforzheim isn’t the prettiest town in Germany, but once you leave the rather ugly town centre, the path to the trail head leads through… Continue reading The Black Forest Mittelweg – Days 1 to 3

In the midst of these crazy times, after cancelling two long-distance hikes because of the pandemic, I’m finally setting off on another multi-day trail. The Paris region where I live in France is still on the German government’s list of risk areas, even though my village of just 200 people is 80 km out of… Continue reading The Black Forest Mittelweg