Stage 4: Mühldorf – Maria Laach

At night, the rain that was predicted the whole afternoon finally came. It was quite some downpour but no thunder. So much for precise weather forecast. 🤣

We didn’t rush to breakfast this morning because we had a short trip ahead today but since we went to bed rather early we were hungry and awoke before the alarm. And so we were the first ones at breakfast again… 😉

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To sum it up…

  • Distance hiked: approx. 170 km
  • Difference of altitude hiked: approx. 10.000m (for each up and down)
  • Time in motion: approx. 50 hours
  • Total time: 62 hours

So, you see due to the weather we didn’t spend much time for breaks during our daily hikes which really was a pity. But you usually don’t make hours of comfortable breaks while surrounded by dense fog and drizzling rain or while a thunderstorm rages somewhere above your head.

The nature on the Nockberge Trail (especially our variation of it) was amazing, the smell even more. Speik and Swiss pines everywhere, the funny whistling of the marmots, the pretty and chilled cattle all along the way… and when we didn’t have any fog: the view! The oh so awesome view! We had at least 1/3 of fog on our hike and the rest wasn’t full sunshine either but the surrounding so compensated for all the weather deficits.

You should try some hiking days in the Nockberge – they are worthwile every drop of rain and patch of fog only with their sheer beauty of mostly untouched nature!

And now for a little visualisation: Here is our trail in 3 graphics (it didn’t fit in one 😀 )!