Start – Utea ParkFinish – Waipapakauri Holiday ParkDaily Distance – 17kmTA Distance – 87km What a difference a day makes. My sleeping bag dried overnight…
Day 03 – Maunganui Bluff Camp
Start – Maunganui Bluff CampFinish – Utea ParkDaily Distance – 30kmTA Distance – 70km Rain! Oh Lord did it rain! Starting just as I was…
Day 02 – Twilight Beach Camp
Start – Twilight Beach CampFinish – Maunganui Bluff CampDaily Distance – 28kmTA Distance – 40km First full day of walking and it was pretty tough….
Day 01 – Cape Reinga
Start – Cape ReingaFinish – Twilight Beach CampDaily Distance – 12kmTA Distance – 12km Day 1! Sleep was pretty elusive last night as excitement finally…
Day 60 – Lingenau to Bregenz
Daily Distance – 26kmDaily Ascent – ~1200mDaily Descent – ~1600mTotal Distance – 1015kmDistance Remaining – 0km The journey is the end. Easy to say, far…
Day 59 – Jausenstation Neuschwand to Lingenau
Daily Distance – ~16kmDaily Ascent – ~430mDaily Descent – ~3000mTotal Distance – 970kmDistance Remaining – 26km Having started this journey alone, it seems somewhat fitting…
Day 58 – Sonthofen to Jausenstation Neuschwand
Daily Distance – 21kmDaily Ascent – 620mDaily Descent – 280mTotal Distance – 954kmDistance Remaining – 44km I feel it in my fingers I feel it…
Day 54 – Tannheim to Prinz Luitpold Haus
Daily Distance – 21kmDaily Ascent – 1750mDaily Descent – 1000mTotal Distance – 900kmDistance Remaining – 113km When one’s hiking top has achieved a sufficient salt…
Day 55 – Prinz Luitpold Haus to Oberstdorf
Daily Distance – 18kmDaily Ascent – 680mDaily Descent – 1700mTotal Distance – 918kmDistance Remaining – 95km As a motif for my final day on the…
Day 56 – Oberstdorf to Sonthofen
Daily Distance – 15kmDaily Ascent – ~50mDaily Descent – ~0mTotal Distance – 933kmDistance Remaining – 80km Outside the rain falls in an unending curtain, inside…
Day 53 – Pfronten to Tannheim
Daily Distance – 19kmDaily Ascent – 1130mDaily Descent – 930mTotal Distance – 879kmDistance Remaining – 134km I increasingly find that I have no recollection of…
Day 51 – Kenzenhütte to Füssen
Daily Distance – 22kmDaily Ascent – 750mDaily Descent – 1250mTotal Distance – 826kmDistance Remaining – 193km The winding roots of this walk reach as far…
Day 52 – Füssen to Pfronten
Daily Distance – 16kmDaily Ascent – 700mDaily Descent – 600mTotal Distance – 843kmDistance Remaining – 177km In this new era of 30°C heat, during my…
Day 50 – nr Lindenhof to Kenzenhütte
Daily Distance – 16kmDaily Ascent – 625mDaily Descent – 350mTotal Distance – 804kmDistance Remaining – 215km Just when one is in danger of forgetting that…
Day 49 – Garmisch-Partenkirchen to nr Lindenhof
Daily Distance – 22kmDaily Ascent – 900mDaily Descent – 200mTotal Distance – 788kmDistance Remaining – 231km The greatest surprise since this morning’s realisation that sardines…
Day 46/47/48 – Recovery Days
Daily Distance – 0kmDaily Ascent – 0mDaily Descent – 0mTotal Distance – 766kmDistance Remaining – 253km There is no denying it, I no longer have…
Day 45 – Herzogstand Summit to Eschenlohe to Murnau am Staffelsee
Daily Distance – 26kmDaily Ascent – 1200mDaily Descent – 1330mTotal Distance – 766kmDistance Remaining – 253km A first stage failure of the walk. Hot on…
Day 44 – Lenggries to Herzogstand Summit
Daily Distance – 32km (inc. 6km cable car)Daily Ascent – 1950m (exc. cable car)Daily Descent – 1650mTotal Distance – 740kmDistance Remaining – 279km Having just…
Day 43 – Lengries (almost) Rest Day
Daily Distance – 6kmDaily Ascent – 0mDaily Descent – 1000mTotal Distance – 708kmDistance Remaining – 309km The alpine hut culture of Europe is unique the…
Day 42 – Nr Grubereck to Lenggrieserhutte
Daily Distance – 25kmDaily Ascent – 1230mDaily Descent – 1330mTotal Distance – 702kmDistance Remaining – 315km One thing I have to get off my chest,…
Day 41 – Rotwandhaus to nr Grubereck
Daily Distance – 20km + detour for trail closureDaily Ascent – 1300mDaily Descent – 1350mTotal Distance – 677kmDistance Remaining – 340km My wild camp abode…
Day 40 – Brünnsteinhaus to Rotwandhaus
Daily Distance – 18kmDaily Ascent – 1480mDaily Descent – 1080mTotal Distance – 657kmDistance Remaining – 360km I nearly lost my shoe today to a sucking…
Day 39 – Spitzsteinhaus to Brünnsteinhaus
Daily Distance – 20kmDaily Ascent – 1000mDaily Descent – 900mTotal Distance – 639kmDistance Remaining – 378km As of this evening, there are now only nineteen…
Day 37 – Marquartstein to Kampenwand Station
Daily Distance – 12kmDaily Ascent – 1230mDaily Descent – 330mTotal Distance – 593kmDistance Remaining – 424km Sitting in the dining room of tonight’s hotel feels…
Day 36 – Ruhpolding to Marquartstein
Daily Distance – 22km (although my GPS had it as 28km)Daily Ascent – 1700mDaily Descent – 1800mTotal Distance – 581kmDistance Remaining – 436km Today was…
Day 38 – Kampenwand Station to Spitzsteinhaus
Daily Distance – 26kmDaily Ascent – 1300mDaily Descent – 1500mTotal Distance – 619kmDistance Remaining – 398km Fresh from my success with taking a dog-selfie, I…
Day 35 – Ruhpolding Rain Day
Daily Distance – 0kmDaily Ascent – 0mDaily Descent – 0mTotal Distance – 559kmDistance Remaining – 458km The good, if a little frustrating, news is that…
Day 34 – Unken to Ruhpolding
Daily Distance – 12km + 15km bus (to avoid a long, muddy, forest/cow pasture ascent/descent)Daily Ascent – ~50mDaily Descent – ~100mTotal Distance – 559kmDistance Remaining…
Day 33 – Camping Simonhof to Unken
Daily Distance – ~22kmDaily Ascent – ~900mDaily Descent – ~1100mTotal Distance – 532kmDistance Remaining – 481km A tough day. Today is the first day that…
Day 32 РK̦nigssee to Camping Simonhof (nr Taubensee)
Daily Distance – 20km (prob a bit less, but I went off trail today, so it’s difficult to say)Daily Ascent – ~700mDaily Descent – ~200mTotal…
Day 31 РK̦nigssee Rest Day
Daily Distance – 0kmDaily Ascent – 0mDaily Descent – 0mTotal Distance – 458kmDistance Remaining – 521km Fortunately my rain coat and trousers held up admirably…
Day 30 – Kärlingerhaus to Königssee
Daily Distance – 16km (some of which by boat)Daily Ascent – 140mDaily Descent – 1170mTotal Distance – 458kmDistance Remaining – 521km This blog has been…
Day 29 – Maria Alm to Kärlingerhaus
Daily Distance – 17kmDaily Ascent – 1350mDaily Descent – 580mTotal Distance – 442kmDistance Remaining – 537km After thirty stages, leading from Vienna to a stone’s…
Day 28 – nr Erichhütte to Maria Alm
Daily Distance – 17kmDaily Ascent – 425mDaily Descent – 1160mTotal Distance – 425kmDistance Remaining – 554km If I were to give a title to this…
Day 27 – Werfen to nr. Erichhütte
Daily Distance – 24kmDaily Ascent – 1380mDaily Descent – 340mTotal Distance – 442kmDistance Remaining – 571km Today has been a day of two halves. On…
Day 26 – Lüngotz to Werfen
Daily Distance – 27kmDaily Ascent – 930mDaily Descent – 1230mTotal Distance – 418kmDistance Remaining – 595km Today is a good news, bad news, kind of…
Day 25 РGosausee to Lung̦tz
Daily Distance – 23kmDaily Ascent – 500mDaily Descent – 1000mTotal Distance – 391kmDistance Remaining – 622km I have reached Lungötz, the very definition of a…
Day 24 – Gosausee Rest Day
Daily Distance – 0kmDaily Ascent – 0mDaily Descent – 0mTotal Distance – 368kmDistance Remaining – 645km Currently I am running a website titled “Mindblown: a…
Day 18 – Spital am Pyhrn to Zellerhütte
Daily Distance – 18kmDaily Ascent – 1100mDaily Descent – 777mTotal Distance – 275kmDistance Remaining – 738km In what can only be described as a catastrophic…
Day 17 – Admont to Spital al Pyhrn
Daily Distance – 18kmDaily Ascent – 680mDaily Descent – 674mTotal Distance – 257kmDistance Remaining – 756km The highlight of today has been walking through Dr…
Day 16 – Mödlinger Hütte to Admont + Rest Day
Daily Distance – 14kmDaily Ascent – 450mDaily Descent – 1150mTotal Distance – 239kmDistance Remaining – 774km When passing through each town, hut or mountain range…
Day 14 – Nr. Neubergsattel to Mödlinger Hütte
Daily Distance – unknownDaily Ascent – unknownDaily Descent – unknownTotal Distance – 225kmDistance Remaining – 788km To my great satisfaction, I am not now inhabiting…
Day 13 – Eisenerz to nr. Neubergsattel
Daily Distance – 21kmDaily Ascent – 860mDaily Descent – 800mTotal Distance – 230kmDistance Remaining – 821km Today I received my first gift of “trail magic”,…
Day 12 – Häuslalm to Eisenerz
Daily Distance – 23kmDaily Ascent – 500mDaily Descent – 1300mTotal Distance – 213kmDistance Remaining – 838km One thing that has surprised me about Austria is…
Day 11 – Voisthallehütte to Häuslalm
Daily Distance – 12kmDaily Ascent – 700mDaily Descent – 800mTotal Distance – 190kmDistance Remaining – 861km After sweating up the hill to Voisthallehütte yesterday, my…
Day 10 – Graf Meran Haus to Voisthallehütte
Daily Distance – 23kmDaily Ascent – 1100mDaily Descent – 1292mTotal Distance – 178kmDistance Remaining – 873km Bambi on ice is probably the most apt description…
Day 9 – Neuberg an der Mürz to Graf Meran Haus
Daily Distance – 18kmDaily Ascent – 1450mDaily Descent – 370mTotal Distance – 155kmDistance Remaining – 896km It’s fair to say that the first three quarters…
Day 7 – Schneealpenhaus to Neuberg an der Mürz
Daily Distance – 28kmDaily Ascent – 628mDaily Descent – 1673mTotal Distance – 137kmDistance Remaining – 914km First out of the gate this morning was leaving…
Day 6 – Grasbodenalm to Schneealpenhaus
Daily Distance – 10kmDaily Ascent – 760mDaily Descent – 860mTotal Distance – 109kmDistance Remaining – 942km I now have a new favourite drink, called a…
Day 5 – Weichtalhaus to Grasbodenalm
Daily Distance – 15kmDaily Ascent – 1575mDaily Descent – 450mTotal Distance – 97kmDistance Remaining – 954km Today has been instructive in the vagaries of Austrian…
Day 4 – Edelweiss Hut to Weichtalhaus
Daily Distance – 16kmDaily Ascent – 250mDaily Descent – 750mTotal Distance – 83kmDistance Remaining – 967km Today I jumped naked into a river. Well, maybe…
Day 3 – Hohe Mandling Peak to Edelweiss Hut
Daily Distance – 23kmDaily Ascent – 1000mDaily Descent – 1100mTotal Distance – 70kmDistance Remaining – 980km Today has been a physically and psychologically tiring day….
Day 2 – Peilsteinhaus to Hohe Mandling Peak
Daily Distance – 23kmDaily Ascent – 900mDaily Descent – 750mTotal Distance – 47kmDistance Remaining – 1003km Two rather surprising things happened today. One, a passing…
Day 1 – Perchtoldsdorf to Peilsteinhaus
Daily Distance – 24km + 2km from hotelDaily Ascent – 1014mDaily Descent – 566mTotal Distance – 24kmDistance Remaining – 1024km Fortunately, owing to my flexible…
Day 0 – The road to Wien
Since Germany stopped being very good at football, I get the impression that complaining about the state of the german rail service has taken its…