From the Black Cross to the Stožecka Chapel and to Volar

The second of the trips of our Šumava vacation was originally supposed to be more relaxing due to the hot weather, but in the end it didn't quite turn out that way...
We took the first train in the morning to Černý Kříž and followed the blue tourist sign, first on an all-too-comfortable and relatively busy asphalt road to the footbridge over the Cold Vltava (2,3 km) - and then up into the woods.
This was followed by the Pod Stožeček junction (1…