{"id":20719,"date":"2019-08-18T17:31:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-18T05:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/?p=20719"},"modified":"2021-07-03T18:15:54","modified_gmt":"2021-07-03T06:15:54","slug":"hochkalter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/2019\/08\/hochkalter\/","title":{"rendered":"Hochkalter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Johannes R headed home on the train in the morning and Johannes D and I went for a speedy walk\/run. We headed up to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hochkalter\">Hochkalter<\/a>. It&#8217;s a challenging walk with some unsecured free climbing sections. We did the entire trip in 5:30 hours which seemed pretty good as the guide said 6 hours in one direction.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Heading-off-Hochkalter-Aug-2019.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Heading off (Hochkalter Aug 2019)\" style=\"margin: 0px; display: inline; background-image: none;\" alt=\"Heading off (Hochkalter Aug 2019)\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Heading-off-Hochkalter-Aug-2019_thumb.jpg\" width=\"164\" height=\"244\" border=\"0\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/About-to-scramble-Hochkalter-Aug-2019.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"About to scramble (Hochkalter Aug 2019)\" style=\"margin: 0px; display: inline; background-image: none;\" alt=\"About to scramble (Hochkalter Aug 2019)\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/About-to-scramble-Hochkalter-Aug-2019_thumb.jpg\" width=\"244\" height=\"164\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Above left: Johannes and I set off for another day mission, this time up the mountain Hochkalter. Above right: There were some scrambly bits along the way. This is just before an ungraded steep scramble.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/On-the-ridge-Hochkalter-Aug-2019.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"On the ridge (Hochkalter Aug 2019)\" style=\"display: inline; background-image: none;\" alt=\"On the ridge (Hochkalter Aug 2019)\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/On-the-ridge-Hochkalter-Aug-2019_thumb.jpg\" width=\"324\" height=\"484\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Above: We reached the ridge above the hut and continued up the rocky ascent.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Johannes-climbing-the-rocky-graded-section-Hochkalter-Aug-2019.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Johannes climbing the rocky graded section (Hochkalter Aug 2019)\" style=\"display: inline; background-image: none;\" alt=\"Johannes climbing the rocky graded section (Hochkalter Aug 2019)\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Johannes-climbing-the-rocky-graded-section-Hochkalter-Aug-2019_thumb.jpg\" width=\"644\" height=\"431\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Above: There was another section of climbing. This time enough that it is graded UIAA II so not difficult. We took care on the section and continued.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Johannes-on-the-rockHochkalter-Aug-2019.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Johannes on the rock(Hochkalter Aug 2019)\" style=\"display: inline; background-image: none;\" alt=\"Johannes on the rock(Hochkalter Aug 2019)\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Johannes-on-the-rockHochkalter-Aug-2019_thumb.jpg\" width=\"324\" height=\"484\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Above: We continued ascending.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Johannes-looking-pooped-at-the-gipfelkreuz-Hochkalter-Aug-2019.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Johannes looking pooped at the gipfelkreuz (Hochkalter Aug 2019)\" style=\"display: inline; background-image: none;\" alt=\"Johannes looking pooped at the gipfelkreuz (Hochkalter Aug 2019)\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Johannes-looking-pooped-at-the-gipfelkreuz-Hochkalter-Aug-2019_thumb.jpg\" width=\"324\" height=\"484\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Above: We got to the summit pretty quickly.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Cris-at-the-Hochkalter-summit-Hochkalter-Aug-2019.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Cris at the Hochkalter summit (Hochkalter Aug 2019)\" style=\"display: inline; background-image: none;\" alt=\"Cris at the Hochkalter summit (Hochkalter Aug 2019)\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Cris-at-the-Hochkalter-summit-Hochkalter-Aug-2019_thumb.jpg\" width=\"644\" height=\"431\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Above: Posing at the Hochkalter summit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Johannes-and-rock-Hochkalter-Aug-2019.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Johannes and rock (Hochkalter Aug 2019)\" style=\"margin: 0px; display: inline; background-image: none;\" alt=\"Johannes and rock (Hochkalter Aug 2019)\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Johannes-and-rock-Hochkalter-Aug-2019_thumb.jpg\" width=\"244\" height=\"164\" border=\"0\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/A-lake-to-cool-off-in-Hochkalter-Aug-2019.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"A lake to cool off in (Hochkalter Aug 2019)\" style=\"display: inline; background-image: none;\" alt=\"A lake to cool off in (Hochkalter Aug 2019)\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/A-lake-to-cool-off-in-Hochkalter-Aug-2019_thumb.jpg\" width=\"244\" height=\"164\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Above left: It was then back down into the valley Above right: We took a dip in the lake to cool off.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.strava.com\/activities\/5566032135\/embed\/e9a87b07daaa088921dc1a6403d300e95e16b927\" scrolling=\"no\" allowtransparency=\"true\" width=\"590\" height=\"405\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johannes R headed home on the train in the morning and Johannes D and I went for a speedy walk\/run. We headed up to Hochkalter. It&#8217;s a challenging walk with some unsecured free climbing sections. We did the entire trip in 5:30 hours which seemed pretty good as the guide said 6 hours in one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-germany","category-running","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20719"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26197,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20719\/revisions\/26197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}