“When you go out into the woods, and you look at trees, you see all these different trees. And some of them are bent, and some of them are straight, and some of them are evergreens, and some of them are whatever.
Turning People Into Trees
Bavaria
Cleaning Out The Vaults: 2007
In the last few months, and I probably mentioned this somewhere already, I’ve been diving in and out of my archives (going by year), giving them one last thorough review. Inevitably, a couple of images remained that I liked enough to make me wish for some context in which I’d show them but alas, no context was to be found. :P
The Unknown in the Familiar
“We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.” (Carson McCullers)
Königssee, Obersee, Hochgschirr, Königsbachalm Loop
Thirteen photos and story from a loop hike that I did in October 2019 in Bavaria’s Berchtesgaden National Park.
Kneiffelspitze, Berchtesgaden
For the sake of completeness, here’s a “single B-side” from my Germany trip in 2019. After hiking back down into the valley from Reiter Alpe through the first snow of the season and dropping off Simon and Florian at their car, I continued to Berchtesgaden, where I had booked a room at a hotel for two nights – and I was definitely looking forward to a hot shower!
Grosser Weitschartenkopf
Photos and story from a hike to Reiter Alpe and Grosser Weitschartenkopf, in the alps on Nationalpark Berchtesgaden in Bavaria, Germany.