ON7DQ Friedrichshafen 2024 - Day 11

This day, we left Friedrichshafen, our final destination was Teningen near Freiburg im Breisgau.
First, we visited the largest fortress ruins in Germany, the Hohentwiel Castle

(source https://www.festungsruine-hohentwiel.de/en/)

DM/BW-101, Hohentwiel - 690m, 6 Points

The parking for the castle is here 47.766977, 8.818272

We had some trouble getting there, because there was a cycling race going on in Singen, so we made a large detour to finally get to the access road to the parking.

Entrance fee was still 5€/person like last year, tickets must be bought in the info center near the parking, no tickets are sold at the entrance gate to the castle. Note that you can not activate this summit other than by being inside the castle walls.

From the info center, it is about 25 minutes to the castle, not too difficult but steep in some places, take enough water on a hot day!

Don't miss the graveyard at the start of the walk, it has a special atmosphere.

I had done the castle visit last year, so this time I set up my station as quickly as possible, and  let the XYL enjoy the views, and take some pictures.

This time, I set up in plain view of all the visitors, in the center field, where there are two nice picnic benches. No one made a problem of my presence. 

From the summit, you have a nice view of the other two "Hegau volcanoes", Hohenstoffeln, DM/BW-085 (left) and Hohenwewen, DM/BW-086 (right), which I have activated in 2019 (see that report here).

I spent more than an hour on the summit, resulting in 28 QSO's with an incredible 10 S2S !
Conditions were so-and-so the whole trip, so again no DX on the map.

Another view of the nice location of my outdoor shack ...

I had planned to also activate Kandel, DM/BW-009, but had to cancel because the rain was pouring by the time we got near the summit. Visibility was very bad so we just went looking for our AirBnb, and that was it.

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