The "Schinder-Trail Grauer Kopf Extended" is located in the Taunus-hills in Western-Germany. The trail connects two world heritages. The "Upper Middle Rhine Valley" and the "Upper Germanic-Rhaetian Limes". The trail is 125km long and has 4020 meters in altitude gain. It is one of the very rare +100Km trails with 4000Hm outside the Alps. In 2020 the trail became famous by athletic German trail runners to run for a new FKT.

South Dorset Ridgeway, either done from Osmington Mills to West Bexington, or vice versa. Route follows the ridge line between to two points that likes the South West Coast path, cutting off the loop around weymouth. Fairly flat with climbs at the beginning to gain the ridge line. Route runs East-West (or West-East) and is mostly bridleway, with some small tarmac sections, and some short sections of single track. 16.8mi long, with roughly 1800ft of elevation gain.

The Westerwald leads in a loop through the charming landscape of the Westerwald and offers a particularly beautiful route with wonderful wide views. It is an easy to medium tour with moderate climbs.  This is a loop that uses part of the Rothaarsteig.

Both Dillenburg and the cold ponds are possible as starting points for the Westerwald variant, also other of course.

If you start in Dillenburg:

GR96 De Samoëns (Haute-Savoie) à Epernay (Savoie)

Le GR 96 sillonne les Préalpes. 

Il part de Samoëns, traverse le plateau de l’Arve, et le plateau des Glières. 

Il chemine entre le Borne et le Fier, fait le tour du massif des Aravis puis redescend sur le lac d’Annecy. 

Il traverse le Parc Naturel Régional des Bauges puis s’étire jusqu’à Epernay en Savoie.

- Submitted by Paul Arnould