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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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.