2007-04-15 The Devil's Table

My grandparents had an oil of the "Teufelstisch" (Devil's Table) in their basement. It's an oddly shaped rock in the Palatinate Forest in Germany. Since I was a kid I always wanted to go there. My grandparents and I used to do a lot of hiking, but we never got around to seeing the Devils Table. The picture on the left shows my six year old self on one of these hikes. Later, when I had a girlfriend, we went on holiday in the vicinity, but the day we wanted to see it, I overslept and we didn't go. But today, more than 20 years after I first saw the oil, I went there.
It's not quite as big as I imagined, but as we all know, size doesn't really matter, it's still terribly impressing. Alex took some photos. There are no people in the picture on the right, so there is no way to estimate the size. My guess would be approximately eight meters. If you want to see for yourself, feel free to google. You cannot see it in the photos, but there are hooks in the "table top", so obviously some freaks really made it up there. (In case the link is broken, it shows a freak climbing up the Teufelstisch for real.)
We went there for geocaching. After one hour of searching, we decided to recheck the coordinates of the cache and boom! it turned out that Alex entered the coordinates of the Devil's Table into his GPS receiver, instead of the coordinates of the cache. Basically, we were barking up the wrong tree -- the cache was the next hill to the right. Once we found a way up, the rest was easy.

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Jogging: seven kilometers and counting. Next week I'm planning on 10 km, which would be the way to the neighbor village and back again.