{"id":2212,"date":"2022-04-07T12:41:16","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T10:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.land-water-blog.de\/?p=2212"},"modified":"2024-04-04T12:06:16","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T10:06:16","slug":"hunsrueck-eiskalt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.land-water-blog.de\/en\/hunsrueck-eiskalt\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunsr\u00fcck ice cold"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Sebastian, founder and owner of LWA<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A few quick words up front.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In everything described below, we were in regular communication with the participants about their condition, kept a particularly close eye on everyone's health and well-being, and were open at all times within the team to making significant adjustments to the course if the conditions combined with the participants' personal limits would have made this necessary.
At the request of one participant, we enabled her to spend the coldest of the nights in a heated room and still take the tour as a whole.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The weather conditions described above were not even within the scope of the almost 10-year implementation of this Multiday Packrafting Training Hunsr\u00fcck-Tour<\/a> the weather was unique to date and was due to the overlap of the price period with the passage of an exceptionally cold low-pressure area. It is also possible to be almost summerlike, as Johannes had described it a few years ago<\/a>on a Hunsr\u00fcck-Tour.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And there was snow...<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Almost 10 years have passed since the first time people met here in the LWA framework, the first ever Hunsr\u00fcck-Tour<\/a>. It has grown into a multiday packrafting course with an expedition feel, has changed, has been and continues to be a source of exciting campfire stories, and has ignited a passion for the outdoors and packrafting in many people. Sven from Anfibio Packrafting<\/a> once called it, the Hunsr\u00fcck tour, legendary, and our participants have already described this course in the most colorful colors. However you describe it, it still has the potential to surprise us, as will become apparent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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One evening and one night later, while I put on my cold, stiff neoprene shoes in the morning, I am no longer sure myself whether we are still within the bounds of what such a course is supposed to and is allowed to do.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n

\"LWAAbout the author:<\/strong><\/p>
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Sebastian, founder and owner of Land Water Adventures, and basically content as long as there is water on the stream, enough chocolate and nice people around him. There is also more about Sebastian here<\/a>.<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

A few minutes ago, before opening the vestibule, I shook the snow cover from the inside of the tent. As I look out, I see a black and yellow shadow scurrying by: A participant on the path that everyone has to walk at some point, and who probably didn't even take off her drysuit last night after getting out of the river. And I roll the question of whether we should continue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But let's start one day before, on the green field.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As always on Thursday at the start of the course and as always in the late morning they come to the meadow on the banks of the Nahe to experience four days together the adventure of self-sufficient packrafting. There are a few familiar faces among them, whom we and they hug each other right away, and there are new faces among them, whom we will once again say goodbye to with melancholy after only four days. And already a few hours later, at the campfire of the first evening, it is in the air for all of us that something extraordinary is waiting for us here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In any case, the mood is good on the first evening, still at the Campsite Nahem\u00fchle<\/a>, despite coolness, despite rain and despite the announcement of lower temperatures for the next days. So we start on Friday morning regular, with the early transfer, in the middle of the Hunsr\u00fcck, and there is something like a concentrated anticipation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite all the preparation and experience, a weather forecast remains something abstract, even for me. But at the latest, when in the middle of the most remote part of the Hahnenbach valley the already low temperature drops by another 2 degrees within a short time, and dense snow flurries begin, it is fully there: The reality of what was previously called \"winter low\" in the newspapers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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