HRP 6: Source de Marmitou to Pla d‘Espelunguere - what an amazing day crushing miles and running uphill

When I woke up this morning at 6.30 it was still 23 degrees warm on 1.850m!…


HRP 5: Pic D‘Ory to Source de Marmitou

Clear night. Luckily the clouds stayed 30 meters below us - so no wet tent and…


HRP 4: Harpea Cave Valley to bottom of Pic D’Ory

Short one only today since I had to chase cows away from my tent for an hour…


HRP 3: COL Basbar to Harpea Cave Valley

The battery of my watch died tonight so there was no alarm for me this morning.…


HRP 2: Col d’Inzola to Col Basabar (almost Aldudes)

What a day! How would my dear friend Martin say: “I am ab-so-lu-tely…


HRP 1: Mainz via Hendaye to Col d’Inzola

  As always I was running behind schedule a bit with my preparation.…


TMB - Tour de Mont Blanc Gear List

Background I hiked the Tour de Mont Blanc (TMB) in 2018 after having done the…


The mountains are calling and I must go - preperation has started...

The day has come. After some very work-intensive and hard month preparing our…


My 11 "unusual" tips for a long distance hike.

Many essential things are discussed in depth in the hiker scene when it comes…


Te Araroa Gear List

I hiked the Te Araroa NOBO in the season of '15/'16 and in 2017 I also hiked…