About Mallorca-Touren

Jörn is an industrial and organizational psychologist and a licensed alternative practitioner for psychotherapy, and he works freelance as a team and personal development consultant. He has been involved in competitive sports for over 40 years, including open-water swimming, marathon running and triathlon. One of his first training camps took place on the island in 1993, and since then he has considered Mallorca his second home. He explores the Tramuntana mountains most of all on foot, together with Ariane.

For many decades, I have travelled—sometimes several times a year—to my favorite island, Mallorca, to enjoy its beauty on long cycling and hiking tours. To plan my hiking routes, I initially used various hiking guidebooks in printed form. However, over time they often turned out not to be reliable: the route descriptions and route guidance, the route length and/or the route profile, and sometimes also details such as any restrictions (seasonal) or fees were frequently outdated. Sometimes, on the hike itself, cairns built by other hikers help to mark the correct route—but they are not always reliable, because they may no longer be there, may be hard to spot, or may simply be overlooked.

And so you find yourself standing there, turning in circles and searching, staring at one bend and then another, trying to make out the course of the path on the horizon, and ultimately choosing one turnoff or another at random—more or less successfully. Sore feet, rolling eyes, helpless looks, and growling stomachs included. This is how the idea was born that these problems could be solved: with digital maps for live tracking.

And that is why Mallorca-Touren now exists!

If you’d like to learn more about the philosophy behind Mallorca-Touren, feel free to read this interview with Best of Mallorca.