Wutach

After a very fun road ride with the Merdingen guys on Saturday the Prucker family and I spent Sunday hiking through the Wutach area of the Schwarzwald. The plan was to drive to a special bus stop and take a bus to the far end of this 10ish mile trail and then hike back to the car. It rained on and off on the drive to the bus stop. Our bus was scheduled to leave at 10:30 and we arrived at 10:31 (the next bus was not until 11:30), but luck was on our side and the bus was still around. Claudia jumped out of the car and ran to the bus as the driver was closing the doors and then an odd phenomenon occured, the driver actually opened the doors, let us on, and even gave me the family discount as part of the Prucker family. As it had been raining, it was a very muddy hike. We were constantly slipping, sliding, and even climbing the sides of cliffs to avoid the mud. We lunched at an old chapel along the way which conveniently coincided with one of the two geocaches we found that day. Turns out Ossi has a built in GPS and didn't even need the coordinates to quickly find the cache. Towards the end of the hike it began to rain, after a brief spell it dried itself out and our hike ended with one more geocache and a Rothaus pils.