
Hiking from Hagen to Wetter!
Now it’s clear. It’s winter. No question.
But it doesn’t have to be necessarily a bad thing. If we look at the horrible temperatures of last summer, winter is maybe better for hiking, at least as long as the weather is good. And today was an exemplary day: 6 °C and clear blue sky. What more would you expect.
Today, we were starting from the central station of Hagen, which obviously led some people to the assumption we’re going to hike through the city. It took maybe 5 min for them to realize this assumption was extremely wrong: the other side of the station is in fact a mountain, so that we were almost immediately starting to hike. This is at the same time a hidden zone that I haven’t explored so far, even though both Hagen and Wetter, which was today’s destination, are my favorite regions.
And we had a spectacular long uphill path and we stayed on a plateau almost all the time today. Even though this was a trail I spent quite some time on, I was myself surprised to see such a perfect place. Who’d have thought that the other side of the station hid such a beautiful place. There was also a perfect mixture of fields and forests. Autumn brought bright orange color to the leaves. It is rare here in Germany to see such a scene under the bright blue sky. I wouldn’t be surprised if this was the last chance for this year.
And we had a spectacular long uphill path and we stayed on a plateau almost all the time today. Even though this was a trail I spent quite some time on, I was myself surprised to see such a perfect place. Who’d have thought that the other side of the station hid such a beautiful place. There was also a perfect mixture of fields and forests. Autumn brought bright orange color to the leaves. It is rare here in Germany to see such a scene under the bright blue sky. I wouldn’t be surprised if this was the last chance for this year.
As we were walking up the hill, the cold weather did not disturb us much. Actually I was even sweating. The problem came when we were having a break. There was one café on the way, in front of which we could also sit on the grass. This time, I brought vegetables and nuts, in contrast to the lunch packets that I usually bring (with curry, pasta etc.). I noticed that Germans usually bring something really simple, and I decided to try it out myself today. And I must say it’s actually clever, as I didn’t have to spend much time on the preparation, and anyway I don’t much enjoy eating. Anyway, the problem was here: it was extremely cold and quite windy. After maybe 15 min I gave up and went into the café as well, where I found out that no one had got anything yet, and would wait for the very first thing to arrive 30 more minutes. With the amount of people arriving simultaneously, the café were hopelessly overcrowded. The last dish arrived 70 min after the order in the end. And there were some of us waiting outside. I’m happy no one made me responsible for it.
Most of what as remaining was fairly flat. I guess if the whole hike today had looked like this I wouldn’t have liked it, but this being only maybe a quarter of the entire hike, it was almost charming to have such a section as well. The success of today’s hike as clearly discernible. And I could confirm that not only around Hagen and Wetter it is nice, but also the region in between is just as attractive.

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