"Finally hiked up the highest mountain of my home state Lower Saxony. Not a nice peak: it used to be a nature protection area, but that was abolished in favour of tourism. Now there are several cable cars going up to the top, snow cannons all around and a big artificial lake near the summit of the mountain. While walking the paths through the forest you get a little paranoid because of all the downhill bikers appear out of nowhere rushing toward the valley with full speed. Wouldn't recommend this except you're interested in conflicts between nature and tourism, hikers and bikers or want to have a good view towards the nearby Brocken." — Adrian • May 3, 2014

"#1 in in Lower Saxony state of Germany and #4 in Germany state HP list. Nice ~7km walk on the well marked trail from Schierke.. On the top was no visibility.. okok maybe 10 meters .. very heavy fog...." — Deividas • Sep 26, 2013