Vineyards, bunkers and a castle

Last sunday we couldn’t resist the beautiful weather and drove from Karlsruhe to Oberotterbach for a short hike in the Palatinate forest. Read more »


1kg 2-person dome tent?

Alpkit’s Lightweight Alptent Revealed! sounds to good to be true.

It’s still a prototype, but in weight terms, it should be bang on the money for lightweight shelters at around 1000 grammes all in.

And the price of 150£ (~172€) sounds awesome, thanks to the worthless pound…


Googlers go Trainsjoch

Last Sunday I went hiking with a few fellow Googlers. When we met at 10:00 in Siegertsbrunn the sky was dark gray and it did not look like a good day for hiking. But after a few minutes we could see patches of blue sky south of us and when we parked the car, the weather had changed to perfect spring weather – cool and sunny. Read more »


Brünnstein Hike

Last Saturday I spend a few nice hours hiking up and down Brünnstein. Read more »