FKT Diemelsteig: 63km, ~2000D+ with Georg Kunzfeld and Mori the dog (GoPro HERO 7)

Distance 63 km
Vertical Gain 1900 m
Fastest known time (female) 8:31h

The Diemelsteig is a premium hiking-trail in the Region Sauerland. It's located in Hessen and partly in Nordrhein-Westfalen.

Early in the morning Georg Kunzfeld and I drove to the Diemelsteig. Mori was so nervous, she doesn't wanted her food 🙈 It was very cold and windy. The first K's were all uphill and I had the feeling, this would be the easiest part.

It turns out that we had to arrange us with very deep snow, ice, frozen surfaces and maybe 2% flat surface and a storm that reminded me on siberian expeditions, which came from the front and side but never from behind. Mori wasn't able to move forward, bc she was blown away from the wind.

But our spirits were high, the challenge was accepted from the beginning, I was trying to step in Georg's footprints, while my little dog Mori was so smart to run or go in my slipstream. It also occurred that we had to hold our hands.

I did ~30 Ultras, but this was one of the hardest. Sometimes it's not the distance, it's the condition. To move on runable trails for 100k oder more, without worrying about cold and energy isn't comparable.