Mindful Wanderer
The mindful wanderer walks the trails through forests, across pastures, along mountain streams, hopping over stones and tree roots furrowing the path — and takes something back home: a twig, a pebble stone, and sometimes an insight.
You will find nature in these posts, sometimes a highlight on a particular trail, and always a reflection that the trail brought home. The posts are very visual, and with a bit of luck sometimes auditory, too.
A Name, a Forest, an Identity
The Black Forest landscape changed with the community values of its inhabitants. From virgin nature to source of livelihood, industry, prosperity, self-awareness.
What a Hurricane Destroys and Creates
Hurricane Lothar in the Black Forest (1999) is a disaster turned restoration story. How people can replace loss with new life, turn devastation into a new natural highlight.
A Miracle in a Tree
One hiking tour in southern Black Forest promises to take you through wild ravines up to Balzer Herrgott, a Christ head in the trunk of a tree. A hike that’s nearly 16 kilometres long, covering an altitude difference of over 600 metres, is not a trifle; but seeing the natural miracle with your own eyes is definitely worth it.
A Wishing Forest and Other Magic at Work
Did I tell you the Black Forest is magic?
The forest itself, that is.
I’d read about mushroom gathering, and seen pictures of mushrooms, vivid and inviting. Hiking through the mossy forest, I wondered, will I be seeing any?