One approach to getting back in touch with our human nature is to get back in touch with nature. From all the wilderness backpacking I’ve done I have many nature photos which I will share on a periodic basis. There is one problem in that most of my photography came before the digital age and I need to digitize my library. I’ll start sharing some recent, digital photos, though they are not from the backpacking expeditions, and go back in time. In 2007 my family visited the family of Sarina Kreplin, our German “daughter” that we hosted through an AFS program. They live in a town about an hour south of Munich. One of our activities was hiking in the German foothills to the Austrian alps. These photos are from the Mt. Tauberstein/Mt. Rotwand area.
They have a system of hostels in the mountains similar to the AMC huts in the White Mountains here. This is a view of Rotwandhaus from Mt. Rotwand, elevation 1844 meters.
This is the backdrop of mountains south, towards Austria.
Both cows and sheep were common sights, as these wild, subalpine areas are treated somewhat as a commons.
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