Christian Kemp's Munich-Venice (München-Venedig) travelogs

München to Bad Tölz - First 3 days of hiking, knee injury (July 2004)

Originally, I was planning to do a 28 to 30-day through-hike of the Munich-Venice "Traumpfad" route, but I was stopped after just 3 days by a knee injury. Quite why the knee injury surfaced so soon - before I even reached the real mountains - I can't say now, but some of the contributing factors were probably the 10 years of almost-daily training for track&field and the associated beating that the knees took during those years, a backpack that was too heavy, and not using hiking poles.

July 28th 2004
Bus and train ride to Munich, hike to Hohenschäftlarn
July 29th 2004
From Hohenschäftlarn to Geretsried
July 30th 2004
Geretsried to Bad Tölz