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Down to the Reservoir

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Distance
4.83 mi
Elevation gain
499 ft
Technical difficulty
Moderate
Elevation loss
499 ft
Max elevation
1,773 ft
TrailRank 
35
Min elevation
1,424 ft
Trail type
Loop
Time
2 hours 11 minutes
Coordinates
582
Uploaded
October 21, 2020
Recorded
October 2020
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near Kalterherberg, Nordrhein-Westfalen (Deutschland)

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Itinerary description

This is among our favorite short walks from Kalterherberg. We leave the homes and the meadows, and descend steeply towards the Perlbach Reservoir. There should be plenty of mushrooms, but the mushroom pickers had gone before us. The evening sun, which we didn't see for two weeks, casts a golden light through the trees.

Our favorite rest bench (and view) across the reservoir is taken - on a Monday afternoon! - so we continue along the lake, the trail fully in the sun. Thankfully, the reservoir is full again, it looks much better this way. There would have been no way for it being NOT full; but still it is nice to see things going back in order.

Now the ascent up the Schwingsborn - a funny name, something like the swinging well - at a modest gradient back to the Kalterherberg plateau.

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Photo ofAussichtspunkt Perlenbach-Stausee Photo ofAussichtspunkt Perlenbach-Stausee Photo ofAussichtspunkt Perlenbach-Stausee

Aussichtspunkt Perlenbach-Stausee

Aussichtspunkt

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Braetsche

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Hotel Hirsch

Post 52156, Monschau, Städteregion Aachen, DEU

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Rodehof

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Schwingsborn

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