For the unfortunate people trying to eke out a living in desolate Western Europe this has been a miserable winter so far. While the Southern Alps are getting record levels of snow, further north we are getting rain, wind, and floods. Why do all the good things have to go to the South?
In desperation, we tried to get some ski touring in Schwarzwald. Breath-taking powder runs down untouched snow we did not get. But we still managed to have three days of fun outdoors.
On Friday, we did a modest tour to a diminutive hill off well the beaten-track (Hornle 1187m). Nice weather, but not a lot of snow. Still great fun.
Neither deep, nor steep, but good fun.
We reserved Saturday for the best tour of the trip: the Schwarzwald "Haute Route". This includes the three highest hills in the Schwarzwald: Feldberg (1493m), Seebuck (1448m), and Herzogenhorn (1417m). In these crowded mountains, the tour includes a little help from ski-lifts and some descents via groomed runs. It is also quite crowded.
On Sunday we switched to Nordic skis and did a 18km round tour, mostly on the loipe, except the bit to go again to the top of Hornle, this time by the even less steep side.
Here is a little video of the trip.
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