Benchmark

Tag: Alps

  • Swing Bench in a box

    One more from the alps around Zurich. Amazing to find on the top of the hill a bench in box, and the bench is swinging. I guess the box around the bench is needed to stand the tough temperatures, otherwise you would not rest for too long on the bench.

  • Hartmut’s Bench

    On 30th December 2016 I went for a hike to Tegernsee. The weather was beautiful, I planed to go for one of the favorite short tracks, have a walk of about 1 hour and enjoy a Weißbeer on the Neureuth Terrace. When I arrived there, it was crowded like hell, so I decided to walk…

  • Bridge bench at Stanberg

    I go this bench from Gloria who was walking around Stanberger Lake and saw this kind of bridge-bench close to the lake, with of course… …a fantastic view on the lake with the Alps in the back ground.

  • Dukes fish farm benches

    There is another great place in the Bavarian Alps which is called Wildbad Kreuth. As the name indicates it was originally a Spa. Pretty famous in its best times. Build by Maximilian I. King of Bavaria, visited by Emperors and Russian Tsars, today owned by the Dukes of Bavaria. Close to this place there is the Dukes…

  • Highgladly (Hochgern)

    Hiking in the Bavarian Alps is a challenging exercise for a bencher. There are so many benches on the way up to the hill. You can’t post them all. You need to make choices. Select which ones gonna make it to the blog. Which ones do have it, comfort and view and/or something special. Roughly on half way…

  • Tegernsee

    This bench is frequently used, since one doesn`t have to walk too far to get there.

  • Bench disappeared at Kampenwand

    Here ist a picture of a bench on the “Kampenwand”, a well known place for hikers in southern Bavaria. The bench invites us to look toward the Austrian Mountains. The funny thing with this bench was, that we hiked a little further and when returning back to this bench an hour later, it was gone. This was…

  • Elbigenalp

    What a coincidence to come around the corner, tired from hiking along the Lechweg in the hot sun since some hours and suddenly finding a place to rest in the cool shadow. Shadow that didn’t last for long –  it even  seemed to wait for us….  

  • Formarinsee

    Then of course the exciting bench above the tiny lake “Formarinsee”. The place the Formarinsee connects a little creek running out of another lake, the Spullersee, is called the “source” of the river Lech. Here you see the bench that let us rest and enjoy the beautiful panorama above the Formarinsee on 1793m altitude.

  • L for Lechweg bench

    Another bench grabbed my attention. It is a boring typical wooden bench you can find everywhere in the mountain area. Except that something very small, an attached metal sign made it to a very special proud bench. It is the little sign of the “Lechweg”, a letter “L” that you find on trees or stones…

  • Lechwoodswing

    There is a fairly new constructed hiking path in the “Allgäu”, in the south of Germany. The hiking route leads 125 km through a beautiful mountain area. The path leads from the source of the river Lech, upon 1800m of hight, to the waterfall in Füssen, close to the Forggensee, a huge lake into which…

  • Sunny & Shady

    Some hikers might like more the sun, some might like more the shade. Here is the alternative. Usually one of those two benches is blessed with sunshine while the other is always covered by shade. During the summer 2015 it was so hot, that we preferred the bench in the shade. In winter times I…

  • The bench and the fountain

  • No. I – Exception of the rule (What-makes-a-bench-a-good-bench)

    While I in general agree on the rule of “What-makes-a-bench-a-good-bench” (Comfort and view), I have to admit that there are exceptions as for any rule. And here is the first one: This is the bench in the garden of our apartment where we stayed in Berchtesgaden. As the bench was located in the private garden of…

  • Old Lady

    This is a bench which has served many ass’ in its life. I found it in a quiet sideroad of Berchtesgaden. Berchtesgaden is a famous German village in the German Alps, known for it’s great location for tourists to conquer the various mountains in the region. I like this kind of simple benches as they…