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Edit event: [Private] Mittenwald-Geisterklamm-Grünkopf-Ferchensee-Lautersee [13.5 Km, 751 m gain]
T2 - [Private] Mittenwald-Geisterklamm-Grünkopf-Ferchensee-Lautersee [13.5 Km, 751 m gain]
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Grünkopf via Geisterklamm
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Description
For the first time I am organising a hike, I've chosen something easy and would like to keep it private.
We meet at 9:00am at München Hbf, platform 26. From there we take the RE 4875 direct to Mittenwald in 1 h 40 min so we arrive shortly before 11am.
We are buying the Werdenfelser ticket which works much like the Bayern Ticket but is cheaper.
From Mittenwald we'll take the route through the Geisterklamm gorge. After that we will try the route up to Grünkopf, which is easy and with only 750 m of altitude gain. If, however, the people would be tired after the gorge or not very sure about going up until the top of Grünkopf, there is a "plan B" where we skip the mountain and go directly to the lakes.
In the lakes we can pause to eat, chill and relax and maybe even take a bath. After that, the route back to Mittenwald is easy.
The whole route will offer oportunities for beautiful pictures. It takes some 5 hours so we should be back in Mittenwald at 16h, which leaves us enough room for long pauses.
Mittenwald is also a picturesque village so we can spend some time there after the hike and have some dinner or beers.
The weather services give differing predictions for saturday, the 1st of August at Mittenwald. In general, fair weather and low probabilities of rain are forecast. Nevertheless, if the situation should evolve into less favourable conditions, the event would be cancelled.
Good to know
The route is not technical so no equipment is needed. Some good hiking shoes are recommended.
Things to bring in your backpack:
- Some food for the pauses during the hike, one 1-litre bottle of water and maybe some other drinks.
- Sunscreen.
- A passport or ID because the route crosses the international border with Austria for a little bit. Most probably there will be no border controls, but just in case.
- Some cash money for the tickets and for whatever you want to eat or drink in Mittenwald.
- [Optional] For those who want to take a bath in the lakes: swimming clothes and a towel.
- [Optional] A spare T-shirt and socks.
- [Optional] It's never a bad idea to always carry in your backpack a small first-aid kit.
Werdenfelser Ticket costs 22€ + 7€ for each extra person, to a maximum of 5. If we are multiples of 5, the round trip in the train will cost exactly 10€/person.
Comments
Amit Verma
5 years ago
Welcome to Hiking Buddies :-) You have to increase the max participation limit, so that others could join.
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Carlos MFM
5 years ago
Done!
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Oleksandra Sopova
5 years ago
What's the point of creating this event on a public forum if it is marked as "private"? Whatever that is supposed to mean :)
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Agnieszka Slota
5 years ago
It's actually explained in the first line... but, as private events are not conform with the group rules, just the 5-person limit would suffice :-)
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Oleksandra Sopova
5 years ago
Yes, I’ve read the first sentence. But I think I am not aware of some rule about private vs regular hikes. I am quite new to the community. I thought every joke posted here is by default “public”. And I haven’t found any rules stating what public vs private hikes should be like.
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Carlos MFM
5 years ago
Since it's the first hike I'm organising, I'd like to have it with people that I know, but at the same time I'd like them to get the points and rating from this hike.
If the hike goes well, I'll organise more in the future and those will be open to everyone!
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Shikha Kaushal
5 years ago
Happy to be kicked out of this 'private' event. Not sure if this is in line with the spirit of Hiking Buddies community though!
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Carmen Salt
5 years ago
that's strange...what does private mean anyway?
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Agnieszka Slota
5 years ago
Carlos, when is the train leaving?
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Carlos MFM
5 years ago
Hi Agnieszka! The RE 4875 leaves at 9:13 from platform 26. We are meeting at 9:00 so we should have enough time to buy the tickets without hurry.
If everything would go wrong and many people wouldn't arrive at that point, there's an RB 5415 (I've always got a plan B) going at 9:32. But in principle, we take the one at 9:13 and arrive at Mittenwald at 11:53 ;)
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Säiv Ahasun
5 years ago
I was the first to sign in and discovered by accedent that I was kicked out after canceling my original plans. so it ruined my saturday already. he didn't notify me. and now i read this silly excuse for posting a "private" hike (whatever that means) in a public platform and talking about ratings and points. people will judge your hikes from your beaviour that they read in those comments and not from recommendations from people you already now. so yes, glad to be kicked out from that hike.
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Carlos MFM
5 years ago
Hi dear people! As explained in the very first line of text, I want to do this hike with people I already know, and the reason is simple: it's the first hike I organise. After this, if it goes well, I expect to organise more and those will be open to everyone. I hope it is not that unreasonable or difficult to understand ;)
Despite this clear notice from the beginning, some people chose to ignore it and apply for the hike anyway, which honestly doesn't say much in their favour, as it means they don't care for reading or respecting rules. Nevertheless -and contrary to what some of the comments affirm- I took my time to write a carefully worded explanation for every person I had to remove from the hike, which I did no later that wednesday, precisely so that people would know in advance.
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Carlos MFM
5 years ago
I chose to create this hike private because I've seen some of them in the past and thought it was OK. After creating this hike, a new summary of the rules appeared in Facebook, where it is stated literally that private hikes are disencouraged but not banned, so we're still in the good side.
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Carlos MFM
5 years ago
I'd like to send an encouraging message to all the honest people who wanted to join this hike but understood the situation and abstained from applying: there will be more hikes in the future and hopefully we shall meet in one of them. At the same time I need to strongly advise against posting angry, passive-aggressive comments just to relieve your frustrations, because they only show 1) you didn't take the time to read even the first sentence of the description, 2) you are the type of person who constantly questions the organiser's decisions and doesn't respect them, and 3) you are grumpy. And let me tell you that's not exactly the winning combo if you want other organisers to accept you in their hikes in a future.
Good day to everyone and happy hiking!
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