The Great German Road Trip, Day 5: Sylvensteinsee and Roßkopf, August 7, 2020

Sadly, this day was already our last day of hiking. It was also the hottest day. Fortunately, we picked an intermediate tour on a wide, well-maintained path with excellent views and lots of shade. This tour was only about a ten-minute drive from our accommodation, just like the previous days' tours, but brought us to a very different landscape yet again. We started at Sylvensteinsee, a reservoir created by a dam on the Isar, circled around Roßkopf mountain and ended up back at the lake. Even though it was hot, the water was not very inviting because it was all cloudy following the large amounts of rain the previous weekend and at the beginning of the week, so we didn't go in, but we did find a nice mountain stream along the way again to dip our feet into during the tour!

Here's the map of our last tour. I started tracking a bit late, that's why the loop isn't closed.

As you can see, the water looked kind of green and uninviting, but it was still a beautiful day.

Walking all the way around the mountain, we got to see a lot of little streams and waterfalls going down the mountain.

There were a lot of butterflies on this walk. There were also a lot of horseflies, which we didn't like as much as the butterflies!

Once we circled around we had an impressive view down into a canyon, and even spotted a waterfall below!

Here's a better look at the waterfall. Glad I had my camera with a bit of zoom: it was inaccessible!

That tour ended our trip. I sat on the balcony at our accommodation in the evening to read, then hit the highway for the drive home after breakfast the next day.

One last look out to the mountains from the balcony on the farm before heading home.