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First day of our crossing of the alps on 31 August 2023. After taking the elctric boat to St. Bartholomew's Church at the western shore of the Königssee we faced a steep incline through the Saugasse with 32 hairpin turns until we reached our first alpine hut, the Kärlingerhaus, at 1638 metres above sea level.

Duration: 3 hours and 30 minutes (including various, uncounted breaks)
Length: 11 km
Elevation: 600 m to 1685 m
Ascent/Descent: 1300 m ↑ and 250 m ↓

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As promised in the last post I am going to start a little TBT series about my biggest hiking adventure so far:
In late summer 2023 my girlfriend and I crossed the Alps from Königssee near Berchtesgaden in Bavaria to Rifugio Auronzo below the world-renowned Tre Cime di Lavaredo.
Although some kilometers, especially from Lienz in East Tyrol to Sillian, were completed by taking the train, we hiked for 11 days straight.

Total length: 132 km
Total Ascent/Descent: 8650 m ↑ and 7275 m ↓

The day before we started with the hikes we arrived overly excited in Berchtesgaden after a 6 hour long train journey with the Deutschlandticket.

Because it was rather gray and rainy that day, we wouldn't have guessed that day how blessed we were going to be with great weather conditions during the next 11 days!

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My "favorite tree." My husband says this leaning, lone juniper is my favorite tree. Over the years, I've photographed it many times against the distant Sangre de Cristo mountains in the evening. I shot it again a few nights ago, on one of the most cloudless evenings we've had in weeks. - northeast New Mexico, USA #NewMexico #tree #lonetree #juniper #mountains #sunset #dusk #silhouette #landscape #nature #outdoors #scenicsnature #hike #hiking #americanwest

The bolt makes the shot. I was watching some storms (very active with lightning) move towards the backyard canyons yesterday. I shot this handheld by just keeping the camera held to my eye and shooting when I saw lightning (1/140s exposure). That actually does work sometimes, but it better be an active storm! - Harding County, New Mexico, USA #NewMexico #landscape #landscapephotography #nature #scenicsnature #outdoors #lightning #storm #thunderstorm #canyon #cloud #clouds #Fujifilm #FujifilmXT5 #Tamron