{"id":1742,"date":"2015-02-15T08:07:31","date_gmt":"2015-02-15T07:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabberty.com\/?p=1742"},"modified":"2025-01-28T12:38:27","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T11:38:27","slug":"20150215-3-day-hike-with-waidmann","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/?p=1742","title":{"rendered":"2015\/02\/15 \u2013 3 day hike with Waidmann"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

With a friend from Holland, here a small overview of the 3 day, 2 night trip in the west of Czech Republic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After parking the car, we left the path and went straight through the fields to a hill which has a ruin on top of it. In the fields we found this deer leg.
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We ended up in the middle of a field with cows and their young ones, and they where quite curious.
\nDue to my experience with the cows in Switzerland and their attack on us, I was not to comfortable, but nothing happened luckily.
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Checking if there was any dry fungus that we could use for fire starting, but all was moist.
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And up we went.
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First signs of the ruin ahead \ud83d\ude42
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The entrance path to the gate.
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Some views of this 15th century castle \/ ruin.
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We continued down the hill again, filled our water bottles at a natural spring, and continued up on another hill, where we made camp for the night. After some nice meat on the fire, ready to go sleep.
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The night was good, but slightly fresh. The temperatures dropped to -2c, and although I had a ground sheet, a sleeping pad, and a double folded wool blanket under my sleeping bag, it was still fresh. This was due to the layer of ice we put our tarp on top. Nothing that a good warm breakfast can’t fix though.
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Continued the hike, we came across many lightning struck tree’s, and this one had an old wasp nest inside.
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WWII bunker, there where many of them in this area.
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Someone found a fox skull, and put it on the tree.
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Not far from the skull, we found this man made cave. I went inside with a light and it went in a straight line up into the hill, but could not see the end of it. On a summer trip I will check it out more.
\nIt could lead to the ruin (not the one from the previous day, another one) that resides on top of this hill.
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After some climbing up hill, we came across a burl… Slightly to big for my backpack, so we left it \ud83d\ude42
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And further we went. The landscape was simply great, easy access and great views.
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Time for a lunch break.
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And on we went.
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Our camp for the night. Waidmann under his 3×3 dd tarp, and me under a 2×3 tarp. The wind was coming from where I was standing while making the picture. The fire would be in the middle and smoke would leave on the other side.
\nIt all worked out as planned. \ud83d\ude42
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We gathered some fire wood in a fairly quick time. Many dead standing and laying tree’s around us. Waidmann used his Silky pocket saw, and me my trusty old axe.
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I put my new steak cooker to work, and donated my old one to Waidmann. Our steaks where perfectly well done \ud83d\ude42
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Time to go sleep, with my sleeping bag inside my wool blanket (sleeping bag mode). It was a very comfortable night.
\nWoke up once due to some hunter shooting around midnight, and other then that slept like a baby.
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Next morning breakfast, purifying water.
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Breakfast was left over meat, chocolate porridge, and pine needle tea.
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Leaving no trace.
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With our last cigar, a “group” pic, and on we went again.
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Back in the village, to the pub for some grilled cheese and a nice cold beer, to celebrate the end of a good hike.
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And the video:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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