Sauerland - Day 1 - Meinerzhagen - Faulebutter
This is the route we biked today (i did miss a small part).
We had a bit of trouble finding a parking spot in Meinerzhagen as all parking places in the centre were limited to 2 hours parking time. At the end we found a parking spot near the train station. We hopped on our bikes at 11:00.
Ready to start!
Cycled 0.1km, climbed 0m, currently at 392m high.
Everytime you start a trip there are always things going wrong and this time it was a squeaking sound coming from the bag at my dad’s steer. We stopped at a bridge to move some stuff around.
Making the front bag lighter under a cool bridge.
Cycled 2.5km, climbed 48m, currently at 428m high.
When coming near Meinerzhagen with the car we noticed that there’s a lot of industry in the area. While riding through the forest it almost felt the same as there is a lot of trees which are felled for their wood. As we hit the highest point early on the day we did see some cool structures like this tower.
An elaborate cellphone tower?
Cycled 13.6km, climbed 320m, currently at 624m high.
We also came across a cool huge bench and we had to take a picture while sitting in it of course.
Chilling on a bench 😎
Cycled 22.7km, climbed 409m, currently at 485m high.
We did a lot of gravel roads but we also had some adventures sprinkled in between. One of them was cutting through a meadow (while removing barbed wire fences to get in! No worries it was a real path).
Mountainbiking through the meadow
Cycled 33.5km, climbed 701m, currently at 501m high.
At the other end of the path it almost seems like we came out of nowhere 😎
Can you see the path?
Cycled 33.9km, climbed 737m, currently at 552m high.
The whole day we didn’t came across a single place to drink something but 10km from the end we came across a bakery. At this point i was thinking we really hadn’t climbed a lot of meters. But then i checked the route and discovered we still had 400 meters in elevation to go 😰. We ordered some coffee and something to eat (which was way too much and eating all of that wasn’t the best preparation for a big climb 🤔).
Our coffee and things to eat
Cycled 37.9km, climbed 747m, currently at 239m high.
The climb was a bit eventful as we noticed part of the route was inaccessible and was rated at 30%… so we did a detour (which was still quite heavy) of a couple of kilometers. We also noticed my dad’s bike battery was getting pretty low but we still reached our destination at 16:30.
It was a good start today but the low battery is not ideal. As our route tomorrow is a bit longer and has quite some extra elevation we’ll have to watch out.
See you tomorrow!