After being grilled by the sun, swimming and doing karate breakdance moves in the first part, we continue in this part.
Day 9 – From Behringen to Reinsehlen
Hiked Km: 13,8 Km
Insight of the day: Relaxation feels good
Lunchtime meal
To shorten the last two days considerably has done our bodies a tremendously well. We are making very good progress, our feet and hips are not hurting as much or as fast. The first two thirds of the way we don’t meet a soul except two friendly mountain bikers. Shortly before our destination, Camp Reinsehlen, where we have been two years ago, we take our lunch break in the middle of the trail. Nevertheless, we arrive too early in the camp, but this is not bad, because now we can surf the internet extensively due to available WiFi and electricity. When we get our keys we first wash almost all our clothes, dry the tent, take a shower and make ourselves comfortable in our room. Moreover, we enjoy the rain which does not affect us now. In the evening we finally have the long awaited heidschnuck ragout.
This year’s holiday was actually a compromise. But a fantastic one. After we had planned several other holiday destinations almost completely, our plans were crossed every time. And when my car was stolen and used for a burglary just before the holiday, the motto for this year was: cheap holiday in Germany – hiking and camping.
Our backpacks
The Heidschnuckenweg was voted the most beautiful hiking trail in Germany in 2014 and it is intended to be hiked in two weeks. We had three weeks time. So after some planning around we decided to hike from Celle to the outskirts of Hamburg, spend a few days with friends there, drive out of Hamburg and hike the last days to Lübeck. We are not necessarily hiking pros or insanely athletic, but the adventure was still exciting.
Now we still needed the appropriate equipment. We already had most of it, but we got some in the local Globetrotter, that we visited more than once. One week before the trip, when we had everything together (at least that’s what we thought), we wanted to do a test packing day and also a walk with the luggage to test if everything fits and if we might need something else. Eventually the test packing lasted from 12 noon to 12 o’clock at night. During the first packing attempt both backpacks were clearly overloaded with about 25 kg. That of course meant that we had to leave even more at home than we had anticipated.
The hours went by and our bagpacks were repacked and stuff was sorted out again and again. In the end we put every single piece on the kitchen scale to identify the cause of the weight. As a result, the following week we went back to the Globetrotter to get extra-light containers and refill anything that was too big or in a container that was too heavy. This way we could save some hundred grams. Everywhere we saved weight and only took the most necessary things with us. This went so far that I soldered a cable short, because I could save another 50 grams. In the end my backpack weighed 18 kg and Maraike’s weighed 16 kg. But without the 3 liters of water in our water bladders…
In advance we planned the whole route with Google MyMaps, where we uploaded the hiking routes and could see how we have to tackle the individual sections logistically. That is: Accommodation (campground or hotel), food (for some sections we had to buy food for three days before, because there was simply nothing on the route), length of the daily route, etc. With all this preparation and a lot of enthusiasm we set out for an experience we hadn’t had yet in this form.
In the following now a loose arrangement of stories about what happened to us during the days of the hike.
Nerd music in its purest form can be admired in a video, where a musical floppy disk lover has combined 64 floppy disk drives, 8 hard disks and 2 scanners to reinterpret well-known songs: The Floppotron. And there’s something for Nirvana fans as well: Smells Like Nerd Spirit. On his blog he explains how his music machine works.
Another fascinating video demonstrates today’s possibilities of modern motion capturing technology. Absolutely fluid and organic movements combined with great effects result in this video.
Not been built for a long time, but not forgotten either. It’s almost like riding a bicycle, especially if you’ve worked on such things almost every day for a while. So on the weekend I was asked to build a frontmount, as small as possible and of course stable. Afterwards the shots will be used as plates (i.e. driving scenes in the background) for a commercial of a big German car manufacturer from Southern Germany. The fact that the car used for the shots was Japanese didn’t matter, because the height of the camera was the deciding factor. So we drove through the beautiful countryside of and also through Cologne and were really lucky with the weather, because the originally planned film shoot on Monday would have been too rainy.
As part of a film shoot for a documentary, which I’m producing and realizing with Patrick Jäschke (partly with the support of av22), we teamed up with Michael Graf ( vice editor-in-chief of GameStar) at this year’s Gamescom and filmed an interview with Chris Roberts. Chris Roberts is known to gamers as one of the most important and influential game developers for space games. In the interview he talks about the state of his latest project Star Citizen, which is the most successful crowdfunding project of all times with its current amount of almost 124 million dollars. You can watch the interview on the website of GameStar: Click
The parts relevant for the documentary cannot be seen, but I can already say: they give a nice insight into the big world of space games. By the way, the development studio is shooting their own reports to keep crowdfunding supporters up to date and in their piece about Gamescom you can also see us at work for a few seconds: Click
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