In today’s post, I’ll look back at the last two hikes of August, which ended up being the last two of this year’s summer – though I didn’t know that at that point.

The second part of my August holiday was spent much closer to the hotel we remained at, which meant lower travel time. And it had a bit different appeal.

As usual in the last years, the middle part of August meant a week-long hiking trip with the hiking club. Which, this time, was a bit different, leading to an area with interesting history, a couple of castles, and some technical landmarks.

July tends to be a warm month with a lot of daylight – a perfect time for hiking and, especially, for ranging far from home.

June can be a prime hiking month – late sunset favors traveling far for difficult hikes. But it’s also a month that can have an abundance of summer storms…

With the spring in full swing, it was time to head back to the higher hills, instead of staying in the lowlands. Given that May is known for frequent but short rain showers, this is never an easy time to plan hikes, but the results this year were quite nice.

April turned out to be a month with quite varied weather. More so than in many previous years. It led to some unexpected diversity. Let’s have a look…