About
Hi, I'm Harald — hiking, travel and being outdoors have long been a big part of my life. best-weather.com is where I share tours, trips and the occasional gear note — honest, thorough, readable, with the facts I myself like to read before setting off: actual routes, real elevation, what it was really like.
On the way to the Peach Blossom Spring
In a sense, every walk into nature is for me such a way to the Peach Blossom Spring — deeply restorative and meditative. Perhaps that's part of what I want to share here.
What you'll find here
- Tour reports with GPX track, elevation profile and photos of every leg — long-distance hikes as well as day tours close to home.
- Travel reports on foot through European cities and regions — from Garmisch to Sterzing across the Alps, through Rome's eternal streets, into the Highlands.
- Gear notes — what actually proved itself on a long hike, what didn't, what I'd take again.
Honest, thorough, readable. If a link points to a product, that's stated openly.
Behind the scenes
Who actually builds this? By trade I'm a software architect and developer; best-weather.com is one of several sites under the roof of my company CARECOM®. It runs on a fast, hand-built Blazor foundation — created with the AI Claude as a pair programmer. There's more about me and my work at carecom.de and — for anyone who enjoys not just the result but the tech behind it — in the behind-the-scenes piece on this site's launch. Looking for a software architect or developer? I'd be glad to hear from you.
A footnote on the name: I live in a town called Wetter (German for weather), on the Hochstraße (High Street). The domain almost wrote itself.