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Amazing scenery, I think once this pandemic is over we are going to have to visit this area, it looks so beautiful x
I went to the Black Forest area 40 years ago on the back of a motorbike! Would love to see it at a slower pace and take more in xThe Black Forest is excellent hiking country, and so are the Swiss Jura and the Vosges which are much less touristy if you want to stay off the beaten track. You've got some interesting cities in the upper Rhine Valley - Basel (Switzerland), Freiburg i. Breisgau (Germany) and Colmar (France), with Basel/Mulhouse airport just outside Basel and a tri-national local metro train service via Basel right up to Zell in the Black Forest and Mulhouse in France. And boat tours on the Rhine...
Snowfall can be somewhat iffy and unpredictable, especially with climate change, but you are more likely to get snow in February than in December. But I have done a fair deal of cross country skiing in the Black Forest.
well done to both of you.i love all the views,
Well done @Wiebke ! It looks glorious up there.I had my lunchbreak at the top of the Belchen in the Black Forest; it is one of the highest peaks (1414 m).
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If there is snow in winter, it doubles up as a local ski resort with an Alps view thrown in on clear days!
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The Black Forest Belchen is part of a perfect natural Pythagorean triangle of mountains with the same Celtic name in solar alignment with the main Celtic settlement in the Rhine valley. There is another Belchen (now Ballon d'Alsace) straight West in the Vosges and a third one (now Bölchen) straight South in Swiss Jura.
A similarly aligned smaller triangle with three minor peaks callen 'Blauen' in all three mountain ranges is doing for another nearby Celtic settlement that has been a major manufacturing and trading centre in the Basel area where the ware coming up the Rhone valley gets loaded onto boats going down the Rhine or vice versa.
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I've made it to the top of Bauchaille Etive Mor near Glencoe in Scotland.
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Another great view from the top.
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Hopefully I'll summit Snowdon tomorrow, before coming back to Scotland.
Wow! You're making great progress @Wiebke.Tonight I have passed the Maloja Pass (1815 m) at the upper end of the Engadin Valley; it is the watershed between the Danube (which drains intoe the Black Sea) and the mighty Po river in Northern Italy. But you don't have to climb out of the Engadin Valley; you basically fall over the edge into a steep gorge which is gradually nibbling away at the Engadin. The little river that is the source of the En/Inn river isn't far from the edge; in the not very far future (geologically speaking), it will end up running down into the Po!
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If you love serpentines, then you are most definitely in heaven!
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