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Hikr-Erstbericht aus einer im deutschsprachigen Raum wohl kaum bekannten Gegend der USA, den Black Hills in South Dakota. Die Black Hills sind ein bewaldetes,starkfelsdurchsetztesMittelgebirge auf knapp über 2000m Höhe. Eher bekannt sind sie durch den Touristenmagnetdes Mount-Rushmore-Memorial. Devil's Tower im benachbarten...

Angel's Landing im Zion-Nationalpark im Süden von Utah gilt als eine der schönsten Wanderungen in den ganzen USA und wurde auf Platz 1 auf www.alltrails.com gewählt. Die Tour ist ja hier auf Hikr schon ausreichend beschrieben (siehe "Ähnliche Berichte"), deswegen nur ein paar Anmerkungen. UPDATE: Der Trail ist seit 22.Sept....

Nachdem ich so viel Gutes über den Appalachian Trail in den USA gehört hatte, und ich zufällig in der Nähe war, wollte ich mir die Sache mal etwas näher anschauen. Für den gesamten, 3500km langen Trail reichte aber bei mir definitiv weder die Zeit noch die Lust. Eine lohnende Alternative schien mir daher die Besteigung des...

Today's prerequisites were very similar like last week's: not too much time and a hike in the Toiyabe National Forest. Today I wanted to make sure to reach my goal(s) and set the expectations way lower than last week: Silver Peak, in fact both peaks from the Noble Creek Trail head. Studying the topo-map and report on summitpost...

Ralston Peak is a popular mountain in the Desolation Wilderness which is typically and often climbed from the trailhead close to Highway 50 near Camp Sacramento. However, my goal was to climb it via East Ridge from Echo Lake and also bag Becker Peak and Talking Mountain on the way up. For my way down I planned to take the...

After a very long break from "real" mountains, I wanted to find out how bad my fitness was. During the past 8 months I did almost nothing which would have helped my fitness. Working "as a contractor" and not really doing any cardio exercise made me wonder how much altitude gain was still possible for me. In order to find out, I...

For some peaks you need several trials in order to make it to the top. For me, Needle Peak falls into this category, it was on my goals as "plan for the day" 4 times. The 3 failures were never due to technical difficulties on the mountain. On this day, I finally made it. The first time Needle Peak was on the goal list was here,...

Even though I've visited Black Butte already (see here), I had the urge to go up there again. Since I didn't have all day for my hike on this day, but I still wanted to do some fishing at Caples Lake, I thought that I could try a different approach for this interesting little gem. My goal was to try to climb the peak from north or...

My announcement to come back to Fallen Leaf Lake and climb Angora Peak and Indian Rock didn't take very long to happen. I hiked up to Angora Peak from the south end of Fallen Leaf Lake, via hiking path and later the not very distinct northeast ridge, followed the connecting ridge to Indian Rock and Echo Peak and dropped down to...

North Peak is a very attractive and high mountain on the boundary between the Inyo National Forest and Yosemite National Park. I already tried to climb it once, but failed already early in the morning due to extremely strong winds. The peak offers several different routes from easy to difficult and is climbed quite frequently in...