We took one of the main tourist roads that climbs to the top of one of the main ridgelines, all the peaks were around 1000m high. A couple of days ago when we had quite cold weather and heaps of rain they must have had quite a bit of snow as there was patches of snow on the sides of the road. Having had so much bad weather it was a nice change to be up high and actually have a view visibility has been limited due to all the low cloud and fog lately.
One of the highlights of the day trip was the massive ski jump we came across, it was up among one of the ski villages and we were blown away by the sheer size and steepness of it.
Recently watching the winter Olympics I thought I had a fair idea of how big these athletes jump, but seeing it in the flesh was a whole different story, the steepness and length was amazing.
This is the ramp they jump off at this point they can’t even see their landing 80m down the slope, scary!
This is at about the 80m mark where they land it is so so steep!!
Just down the road we came across some ruins of a very old monastery.
Further down the road we came accros some old ruins of a manastery. The Allerheiligen monastery was built in 1191 and is of gothic architecture….. pretty old!!
Further down from the monastery was a nice walk through some cascading waterfalls or wassenfalle.
Apparently they are the largest waterfalls in the Black Forest, cascading for 83m
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