Alpine Path

Between Hüttenwasen and Stübenwasen the path runs largely horizontally across the rocky northern mountainside of the Feldberg in southern Germany.

The path is unusual in that it is one of the few hiking trails in the Black Forest that runs through characteristic alpine terrain with rocks and steep ravines.

The name of the path comes from the alpine vegetation that grows on the shaded and relatively inaccessible northern slopes of the Feldberg, one of the last refuges for such flora in the Black Forest.

The path runs across rock faces, avalanche slopes and the open cattle pastures typical of the Black Forest (at the Hüttenwasen and below the St.-Wilhelmer Hut) where today pioneer species may be found in places.

Especially clear is the environmental damage of recent years in the numerous dead trees that stand below the Feldberg summit and the Stübenwasen.