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Remembered Today:

My climb up to Buchenkopf (The Tete de Faux)


egbert

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....ok and another 3 meters - I saw stairways and passages that made me feel lonely w/o the messenger dog and I decided to retreat.

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And a commanding view from the base of the rock towards the hinterland. How impressive the view must be from the top of the rock....

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Another excellent thread from you Egbert.

Looks like you had a very interesting walk, and you may have piqued people's interest enough for them to explore there themselves!!

Thank you for sharing.

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You aren't alone. I have just enjoyed looking at your pics.

How kind of Chester to take you for so interesting a walk!

Bruce

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Thanks for sharing your explorations, Egbert. Some tantalising photos there. Perhaps you and Gwyn should collaborate on a guide to the Vosges battlefields ...

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Thank you for the great photos egbert. As a Somme-addict it is easy to forget there are many other fascinating sectors just waiting to be explored.

peter

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Egbert.

Many thanks for the virtual tour. Great photographs, enjoyed by one who can't get to places like this.

Cheers Rob.

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Great photo's Egbert, thank you for sharing them with us.

Andy

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We continue our climb along the anticline towards the peak, passing blockhouses, obstacles and destroyed trenches as well as preserved trenches

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Between the anticline and the closing mountain peak more and more bunkers grown over by the vegetation are visible. Peppered with heavy barbed wire protection and chevaux-de-frise

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...called "Sattelstützpunkt". Gwyn once started a GWF thread on the meaning of the inscription.

Sattelstützpunkt

Erbaut

4. Kompanie Bayerisches LIR 12

Feste Eisen-Schmid

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