Spring is here! At least for now. So I tied my hiking boots again and got on my socks with my good friend Miri to the highest mountains around Potsdam: the Ravensberge.



Here and there traces of the last winter days could still be seen. The small Teufelsee was almost completely frozen over. We use a perfect… leggi altro

Very nice corner ... on the last weekend we did a 22.2 km tour in the same terrain ... from Rehbrücke station, Teufelssee, small Ravensberg, forester's house, Caputh ferry and back on the other side of the water ... very much to recommend. Lg, Toni

Right, Toni, absolutely beautiful. And in Caputh by the ferry there is delicious ice cream! 🍦

Nice tour. And so versatile.

Total, Cora! Beautiful views, an idyllic lake and a lot of forest - and yet not too many people. Don't want to know what was going on that day on the Wall Trail.

This was not a military training area.

The GDR sold some of the sand to West Berlin

Exciting and thank you, JP! Learned something again.

A very nice tour that I did on Saturday. With a small abbreviation. So versatile and finally “mountains” 😀⛰. Thanks for this nice tour!

The sand pit was created in the early 1950s to build the embankment through Lake Templin. This made it possible to route the route around West Berlin. However, the Templiner See turned out to be a bottomless pit. The builders did not expect a 30 m layer of digested sludge. That has increased the effort… leggi altro

Great, Ute! I'm very happy that you enjoyed the tour as much as I did. A really nice corner and yes, "mountains" are not easy to find here :)

Thank you, Ulrich, for the background knowledge. How much history is there in so many places. I'm always happy about such insider knowledge!