Breakfast at the hotel in Epfenhofen began at 8 and the room was already packed when I arrived just after. It was nothing special as a breakfast but it set me up for the day. I had planned out a route on Komoot to take me back to the Ostweg and, after settling up and… Continue reading The Ostweg – days ten and eleven
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The Ostweg – Days seven to nine (with day eight off)
Another long day – 29 km in the guidebook, 32 according to my Garmin – marred by an unfortunate incident. The breakfast at the Villa Junghans was worthy of the rest of the stay and I set off at around 8:45 AM, heading back down to the town through the beautiful park. As it was… Continue reading The Ostweg – Days seven to nine (with day eight off)
The Ostweg – Days Four to Six
What should have been an easy morning hike of just over 13 km into Freudenstadt, estimated at 13 km, turned into a 21-km slog for a number of reasons, notably a huge amount of logging work at the start of the day that obliged me to make a long detour. I set off from the… Continue reading The Ostweg – Days Four to Six
The Ostweg – Days One to Three
On May 19th, 2022, after completing my annual marathon of work for the Cannes Film Festival that had opened a few days earlier, I took a train from Paris to Pforzheim via Karlsruhe to hike the Ostweg, the third north-south Black Forest trail, after the Westweg in September 2019 and the Mittelweg in September 2020.… Continue reading The Ostweg – Days One to Three
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