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Once more, I was ready to leave by around 8am. The first hour of hiking wasn't very eventful - I backtracked through Geretsried to get closer to the Isar again. My right knee wasn't giving me too much trouble yet.
The trails varied quite often - one moment, they were muddy and of the single-trail variant, then they were wide enough for a car to drive on (but still neither paved nor graded), then I had to walk over short stretches of single-lane pavement, then through meadows.
By the time 2pm rolled along, the condition of my right knee had grown much worse; to the extent that I all but stopped taking photographs and merely concentrated on putting one foot in front of the other. I walked slower, probably limped quite heavily even, and the last few remaining kilometres into Bad Tölz were really killing me.
As soon as I reached the city, I looked for a place to stay. I retired into my room to rest for the remainder of the afternoon, and only ventured out to a Greek restaurant for dinner, but it was becoming quite clear that with the condition my knee was in, it'd be lunacy to attempt to continue the hike the next day, or even after an additional day of rest.
[After I got home I had an MRI done on my right knee, and I was diagnosed to have a fissure in my right knee meniscus. While I can't say for sure how long it'd been there, it's quite probable that either the three days of hiking created it, or worsened it.]
Written Friday December 21st 2007 in my apartment in Bivange, Luxembourg
Accommodation: Random hotel in Bad Tölz (Bad Tölz)
- Kilometres hiked: 17km (10.6mi)
- Ascent: 100m (328ft)
- Descent: 0m (0ft)