📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
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💼 What the programme involves
Project
This workcamp is all about maintaining the typical alpine cultural landscape, by retransforming overgrown areas into grazing areas for lots of different species, with typical plants and animals. You will be clearing small bushes in grazing areas and then stacking them in piles or laying them out as shelter for reptiles. There will be alp farmers from the Lödenalm area (located between your accommodation and the Lödensee lake) on site to guide you. Together with the Ruhpolding Forestry Office, you will also be cultivating the land at Hochkienberg, a former alp that for conservation purposes needs to be used as a grazing area for sheep. In order to help on this particular part of the project, you will be driven up the mountain for part of the way, but must complete the last leg of the journey on foot, a 90 minute hike up the Hochkienberg alp. Another task you will be helping the Forestry Office with is raking up and loading different plant species from a small meadow near to Lödenalm (Ortneralm). You will also be taken here in a minibus.
Some info on the accommodation: Your accommodation is located in a narrow valley within the Chiemgau mountain conservation area, between Ruhpolding and the Lödensee lake (3km). You will have a room for sleeping in, a kitchen, a common room and a toilet without a bathroom. There is electricity and lighting, as well as a wood oven in the kitchen for cooking and heating. Fresh (cold) water is only available from a fountain/trough in front of the house. Bundesstraße is 50m away (at night time there is almost no one walking by).
🏠 Accommodation on site
You will be staying on the ground floor of the Leitstube Seehaus, one of the larger houses belonging to the Forestry Office in Ruhpolding. You will prepare and cook meals together in groups.
📍 About the location
You have ideal conditions for living among nature and for hiking in the Chiemgau mountains. There is also a cable car going up the nearby Rauschberg mountain (1.645m). The Lödensee lake (6km away) and Ruhpolding (4.5km away) are reachable on foot or by the bus, which runs every hour during the day. In Ruhpolding there are opportunities to go shopping, swimming and there is also the train station there. In the evenings you can sit around and enjoy the stars. At the weekend you could travel to the Chiemsee lake, Salzburg or München by bus or by train. The Förchensee lake is also right next to your accommodation. But, just like the mountain stream flowing down from the lake, it is much colder than the Lödensee lake because of its underground sources.
⚠️ Requirements
The work will sometimes be physically demanding. You should also be fit enough to go on hikes through the mountains. The accommodation is in a remote area (but there is a bus stop right in front of the house). Please bring strong hiking boots and protection from all weather (sun and rain)! There are NO showers in your accommodation and warm water is only available if you heat it up yourselves!
ℹ️ Additional information
This camp is kindly supported by the Franco-German Youth Office and is only for participants from France, Germany and Spain.