Fantastic day to attempt the full loipen, again starting from Lipple. Its been snowing all week, and temperatures way below freezing, and today was a blue sky day in the Schwarzwald. The loipen were not as fast as last time, not so much ice, which was great for my descending abilities but of course I did stack twice in some major powder dumps. One on a fast section with a sharp right hand bend, the tracks disappeared and I had no chance of making the corner. The second was at the very finish, its steep down to the carpark, and as I was trying to avoid both a skier in front and flying across the carpark I just face planted into the convenient powder drift to the left. Nice and soft.
Unfortunately the Fischerhütte was not open! (Only now do I look for the website) This disappointed many skiers today, it would have been ideal to eat here. We still took the opportunity to rest, and pushed it up the very steep section to Kreuzweg, from where it was mostly downhill, and back to the LippleHütte for an even more satisfying meal.
The strava record says 25km, but theres probably another 3km as the signal seems to be lost between the most southerly point and Fischerhütte.
The cabin allows an all year barbecue, of course used more in warmer times
but last time I was here I saw a group of sledgers having a warming meal.
Restaurant at Gempenturm. (Closed at the moment)
Literally 50m stretch where some forestry workers had dug away the snow, the "fango semi-freddo" (half frozen mud) just sticks to anything and doesn't drop, getting heavier and heavier and preventing any forward movement.
