2018-04-03 50 7

Location

On a field near Heilberscheid in the Westerwald.

Participants

Plans

Todays hashpoint is 26,5 KM from my sisters home. As the crow flies. To far, to get there only by foot, especially since I have to walk to a hotel afterwards. I was looking for a bus. There were some from Koblenz via Bendof or Sayn, but none of them convinced me. But then I looked for the nearest station to the hash and found it in the Lahn valley, and I had a quite good connection from Neuwied to Obernhof. komoot said, it would take 22 KM from Obernhof via the hashpoint to the nearest hotel. Considered the fact that I had to walk more than 6 KM to the station in Neuwied, that is almost 30 KM. A perfect tour for me:-)

Expedition

I started at twenty past eight and had to hurry a little bit as my train should leave at 9:40. But I knew the path very good as I grew up in this house and lived there for more than 18 years. So I reched the station at half past nine, and had even enough time time to buy me a ticket. with a short stop in Koblenz I reched Obernhof at 10:47.

Now I just had to start walking. I crossed the river and immediatly climbed out of the valley on the other side. When I looked back I had a great view to the romanic monastery Arnstein on the top of a hill on the other side. My way followed a slim ridge between the Lahn river on the right and the Glanbach on my left. But after a while I left the Lahn and the path followed the Glanbach for the next 10 KM on the heigth. Then I had to come down to the rivulet. I found a hut with some benches and decided to have a break and a picnic. I could stay in the valley for the next 3 KM, then I had to climb up again to get to the hash. I was quite tired already and so I was very happy to find a big bench on the top, just 1 KM away from the hash for another short break. Then I came clos to the hashfield. For some reasons I expected the hash to be in the forest, and so I almost missed it and even had to walk back for some 20m. The hash itself was pretty easy to reach, 25 m into the field.

There were stil more than 4 KM left to the hotel, and soon I reached a closed path (lumberjacks!). So I had to walk a detour. But at least I reached the Glanbach again, at the place of a former village, that was left in the 19th century. After a while I left the Glanbach and followed the Eisenbach now. Here I found a big brigde, and then I heard a rumor in the mountain and some seconds later an ICE crossed the bridge with more than 250 km/h. Nevertheless I got a photo of it :-)

Soon after that I saw the hotel shining through the trees. First I got a big beer, than a hot shower and at last a very fine meal.