böhmerwald = bayerischer wald = sumava (AT, DE, CZ)

same procedure as every time when in neuhaus am inn: my wife visits her friends and i spend the time in the nature in the surrounding NP böhmerwald = bayerischer wald = sumava. my highlight this time were the swimming in half-frozen lake in neuhaus and skiing at geisskopf and in the hochficht ski area at the DE-AT -CZ border

neuhauser see is our favorite lake around neuhaus am inn

look at the ice breaker. where? right down :-)

neuhaus am inn (DE) + inn river + schärding (AT)

 st. florian, austria

 baumgartner brewery, schärding

 geisskopf (DE), 1097m

bischofsmais, the starting point for the geisskopf ski area

 zwieselberg, reischlberg, hochficht (AT)

zwieselberg

reischlberg + hochficht

 

 can you see the alps on the horizon?

hochficht, peak station, 1338m. behind the pylon is the czech republic.

good-bye, schwarzenberg (AT)

indian dinner in haag in obb. (DE)

last but not least, sadhguru + 2 ghosts wanna share their charisma with us :-)

so true, dear sadhguru :-)

more pictures here

our last visit to neuhaus here
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sumava ~ böhmerwald ~ bayerischer wald (CZ DE AT)

well, my wife was busy with her friends in passau, so i could hike in the nearby mountains of  nature park bayerischer wald / böhmerwald / sumava in the border area between czech republic, austria and germany. 

well, i often use to say that the nature knows no man made borders, but it is not true in the bayerischer wald (sumava) region. why not? there were different ways to fight against the bark beetles (borkenkäfer). the germans decided to leave the trees up to their destiny, so there are many dead tree stubs out there. but i can confirm that nature is recovering fast if we only leave it :-). on the other hand, the czechs cut the ill trees and used a lot of chemistry against the bark beetles, so the czech side is more green and more intoxicated at the same time. 

my tour #2 was in the czech republic in the area of strazny:

 lake zdarske jezirko, sumava, CZ

my starting point in strazny, CZ

my tour #1 started in freyung (bavaria) and continued over the himmelsleiter stone stairs up to the lusen mountain (1373 m)

 freyung, BY

bark beetles defeated this trees, but not the whole forest :-)

 himmelsleiter (stairway to heaven), DE

lusen, 1373 m

lusenschutzhaus

more pictures here.

pictures from my last visit in june are here.