Route: Rhein Höhlen Schaukel

Submitted by tianontrail on Mon, 04/10/2023 - 04:05pm
Location
Germany
Distance
26 km
Vertical Gain
1,000 m
Description

With the track "Rhein-Höhlen-Schaukel" the name says it all! For a good 27 kilometers, it takes you over 7 waves, 1000 meters in altitude, through the hilly landscape of the Rhine between Bonn and Koblenz. You can expect rapid paths, farm tracks for relaxation or for speed, exhausting climbs and steep descents, a cave and, for whom the up and down is not enough, actually a swing.

You start in Bad Breisig directly at the train station. Immediately after your start you will pass the fountain station of the "Römertherme", an ideal place to relax after your run. For you, it's now steeply through the forest to an old toboggan slope, where you have a beautiful view back into the legendary trail area a "Siebengebirge". Arrived at the top: A Friedwald, a place where people found their final resting place. If you then turn onto the Quellenweg, the promised swing is suddenly there in the middle of the forest. 100 meters behind the Jakobshütte, however, there is a turnoff to a vantage point with a wonderful view deep into the Eifel. After a longer flat section you come to the Weinberg hut. Now it gets rocky and steep. You pass a vantage point into the Brohltal on the left and the conspicuous devil bone rocks on the right before you walk into the valley through the Trass caves. After a tough ascent to the highest point, our route swings back north.

The path meanders dreamily in the deep forest past blocks overgrown with moss along the "volcanic educational trail". It goes again briefly along a forest road. The last three climbs, the saw teeth, will squeeze your legs again on narrow paths. Enjoy the crisp downhills and flowing trail sections and take a look north towards the Siebengebirge from the Reutersley vantage point high above the Rhine