sumava, böhmerwald, CZ

sumava / böhmerwald aka bohemian and/or bavarian forest visited from the czech side of the hills (CZ). we have hiked to the two in my opinion small glacier lakes cerne jezero (black lake), which is the biggest natural lake in czech republic and certovo jezero (devils lake). we've stayed in the more or less closed ski resort hotel karl with 8-10 other guests and restaurant closed in the village of spicak (spitzberg) bei zelezna ruda (eisenstein) in the german-czech border area.

enjoy few pictures:

certovo jezero = devil's lake, sumava, CZ

zelezna ruda (eisenstein), CZ

two of us 💕

nature park, black lake + devil's lake

our stay was the ski resort hotel karl in spicak (spitzberg), 

sumava (böhmerwald), CZ

cerne jezero (black lake)

großer arber, 1455m, the highest mountain in sumava / böhmerwald / 

bayerischer wald as seen from the czech side is located in bavaria / germany

google album with all that pictures here

grosser arber, 1456 m

what a nice hiking tour to the small and the great arber, which is with 1456 m the highest peak in the bayerischer wald, the mountain massif on the german-czech-austrian border area.

coming from deggendorf my tour started in bodenmais from the risslochweg hikers' parking place  besides the riessloch waterfalls up to the great arber. after 'climbing' up 3 of its 5 stone peaks (ok, walking is more sufficient here) i went to the chamer hütte (cottage) and the small arber peak (1383 m). after that there was a different way through the riessloch canyon back to bodenmais. without breaks lasts the tour 5 hours, with much appreciated breaks for enjoying the nature at least 7 hours 😄.what surprised me most was the fact that even in late may there was still some snow from the south side of the mountain. as the north side of arber is a skiing area, there is still a lot of natural + artificial snow from the anyway colder north side, you know?

enjoy few pictures

still some snow out there

 the rissloch waterfalls (also risloch, riesloch, rissloch, rießöloch - select the name you like most)

please choose the right way ... both finish at the großer arber plateau :-)

the insects' paradise

grosser arber, 1,456 m over the sea level

do not ask me what kind of surveillance / climate control stuff is that. or maybe just a meteorological observatory? who knows?

richard wagner (head) stone at the grosser arber

chamer hütte, 1298 m

great arber as seen from the small arber

kleiner arber peak (1383 m), the smal arber

back to the rissloch canyon

all in one 😏

more pictures here.

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