New Virtual Wilderness Getaway

Das Externsteine.
Sometimes I have too much fun camping, I forget why I am here for.

 

I was going to ask you how Das Externsteine is.

 

It's good I've been up there a few times carving runes as we go. The stump where the Irminsul stood is covered in blood from everyone. Sounds gross but it's what we do. Lol. We are the last with Pagan Blood!

 

I can't imagine how incredible that experience must be.

 

Its better for that experience on the soltice Gatherings, this camps a bit messy and I don't like seeing can and bottles all over the holy grounds.

 

So you pay homage to your German ancestry, and the Stone age people and culture that lived there thousands of years ago?

 

Heading across US-2 and 41 in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.

 

New England is beautiful in the fall. It was very green when I was there. In fact, Sunday, I was at the beach. The fall foliage seems to be later and later. I remember when I was in elementary school, October was cool, crisp, and very colorful. Now, it's still summer.

But, man that point break at Good Harbor in Gloucester. Wish I'd brought my stick.

 

Well yeah, I mean, I don't think anyone actually knows the legit history of the Externsteine other than its 3 big limestone rocks that don't really belong there. No one knows how they got there or why.

Up the top of one, you see the bridge leads into an alter or an observatory. On the farthest right stone is a stump where the mighty Irminsul stood.

In the early middle ages the French came through, cut it down and killed everybody then they carved a mural into the stone of the Irminsul being cut down.

Its definitely an early Germanic structure, the Irminsul means the Saxons were on the lands too. In WW2 Himmler used it as an SS site for supernatural things so whatever the powers of the place are definitely entrenched in the culture.

 

Last year the foliage was terrible because it rained all summer and we never had that August-early September dry period that seems to play a critical role in the process,
along with warm days and cold frosty nights.


So far the early reports are good from Northern Maine, Northern New Hampshire, and from the Northern Green Mountains of Vermont.
but we’ll see as the colors move their way south.