Sometimes the best hikes are just around the corner of our Home, like the Sinterbacher Waterfall.
The Question to consider first is; What is Home?
The Dictionary says:
a house, apartment, or other shelter that is the usual residence of a person, family, or household. / the place or region where something is native or most common / a person’s native place or own country.
Personally, HOME is where my Backpack is.
It is hard to define the Word HOME in a literal sense. Due to the fact that I have been home in many places, the definition get blurry. At some point you use the term Home, in many ways.
– I have a Home Country, but that does not mean that I live there.
– I have a Home I go do after Work, because it is the way Society Speaks and uses the Word Home.
– I can pack up my Home when ever I want and make a NEW Home. (There is only so much I can stuff into my Backpack before it explores. )
– Home is anywhere where I place my Backpack down, and seek Shelter for the night.
But If you feel like you would know more about my view on Home, are rather fluent in German or would like to use a Translator, I gave an interview on Zwischenzeilen with Timo, on my definition about Home. Go check it out!
Having had many Homes around the world, there are a couple of advantages.
Not only do you have more time than a traveller to see the hot spots you can enjoy the different seasons, and a working traveller in a place you have the time talk to the locals to hear and know about the real Gems in your new Home. The small Gems that the locals like to keep to them self, so get out there and communicate. Maybe you will also be the one to teach them a few things, or better yet just go exploring.
In this case it was exactly that; a tip from a Local. After she showed me a Picture of what she did on the Weekend. My reaction “Where is that?”, the answer was “Oh just a five minute walk out of town, and then about an hour hike up the Valley.” I made a mental note, to make sure I checked it out on my next day off. Lucky me it was a Sunny Day.
It was time for a small Hike; to the Sinterbacher Waterfall, in the small Village of Jochberg, Austria.
My Home for the past 7 Month has been in Austria. In a small village just outside of the Famous Kitzbühel, named Jochberg. Kitzbühel is well know for the rich and famous Hangout in the Winter but also for the World Cup Race. Probably the most Dangerous on on the whole Circle. Have you tried the Hannenkamm. 2016’s Winner said: Anyone who comes down alive, in what ever time is lucky. So there ya go maybe a Bucket List item if you like to ski, and be happy if you make it down alive no matter the time.
It was a Sunny June day, the trail followed along a River the whole time, knowing that all this water comes from the Sinterbacher Waterfall. Can you hear the Rushing to the Water? Imagine only hearing this noise. Before cutting into and up the Valley, the typical view of Tyrol in Summer an amazing reward. Flowers, Cows, Mountains and Green Grass.
the Hike followed the Whole time along the Creek (in Winter)/ River (in Summer, with an almost enchanting Forest to compensate this strange experience. There where Ferns, Dandelions, Trees off all sorts, and Dragons. It was Strange maily to the fact that never would you have guessed this Trail, this Forest is located here, it felt like out of another World.
“ Everytime I see a Waterfall, I am amazed by the force that is behind it, to find such a force just minutes out of your Home makes it even more special.”
Colleges where asking the following day what did you do on your day off, I asked I hiked to the Sinterbacher Waterfall, and I realized that not a lot of people knew about it. Maybe during the Summer month it is more populated but too be honest I enjoyed the peace and quiet listing to nature and just being and enjoying.
And of Course no Destination is Complete if there where not any Garbage Cans.
Do you have a Destination, REALLY close to Home, that you would like to Share?
This is an Article, that is a contribution to the Blog parade from Caroline at Bergzeit Blog.
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