Last night was somewhat depressing.  The cloud had descended and the hut at Kreuzwiesen Alm was surrounded by dense mist.  Much worse Chri...

6hrs 30mins 25km 1300m ascent 530m descent. Because we stayed two nights hiding from the rain at Pfitscherjoch the group of Germans we...

The great thing about place to place hiking is that stuff happens.  Tonight we expected to be staying in a dormitory but although we are o...

1200m ascent, 2000 descent, 17.5km 7hrs Technically speaking today is Day 12 as yesterday, Day 11, was spent stranded in the 'hut...

There is something about walking in the company of Germans that brings out what frankly is a very wide competitive streak in my wife Chris...

17 km, ascent 1800m, descent 400m 7hrs Having changed our itinerary and chickened out of the high level route from Glungezer to Lizum...

From a planning perspective this is a tricky part of the walk. On my preferred itinerary tomorrow's stage is a high altitude walk from...

It wasn't even 8am and here we were climbing up a steep mountainside above last night's hut, clinging onto steel ropes. It was ha...

The big news from Austria is that for the first time on this trip we have had a whole day of good weather.  After yesterday's  mega hi...

25 kilometres 850m ascent 1270 descent 9 hrs. Today was another wet one.  It either rains all the time in Bavaria or just rains all t...

I'm sure that we could speak German and had understood the Rother guidebook we would have known what we were letting ourselves in for....

27 kilometres 6-45 mins Tonight we are in Bad Tolz in a lovely half timbered hotel, with huge quirky rooms and a balcony and set in a...

36 kilometres 9 hours walking The one word summary for today is 'wet'. It started raining at about 9-30, an hour after we lef...

The idea of walking the 'Dream Path' grabbed me a couple of years ago when I was walking the red variant of the Via Alpina  in Aus...