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24T71 The humble gorge of the Partnach

By HL fotoeins on 17 Jul 2024

(E70)

I’ve been here in town a half-dozen times since 2002, but I’d never wandered into the cool misty roaring depths of the Partnach river gorge, known also as the Partnachklamm. That all changed today.

Erosion starts slow in a trickle. But flowing water is patient, and begins to wear a small narrow groove into “impenetrable” rock. Ten thousand years later, the groove is a mighty gorge, about 1 kilometre (0.6 mile) long with walls as deep/high as 85 metres (280 feet).

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There’s city bus service from Garmisch-Partenkirchen train station to the Olympic ski-jump stadium, but the one-way walk is about 5 km from the train station to the far-end (south) gate of the gorge. To enter the gorge proper, the admittance charge is 10€ (2024). Conditions “inside” can be dark, wet, and much cooler.

I made all photos above with an iPhone15 on 17 Jul 2024. This post composed with Jetpack for iOS appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com.