Down to the Reservoir
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Trail stats
- 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
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.
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.
Waypoints
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Hotel Hirsch
Post 52156, Monschau, Städteregion Aachen, DEU
Waypoint
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Rodehof
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Schwingsborn
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