Sauerland - Day 4 - Waldhotel Einstein - Meinerzhagen

This is the route we biked today

Breakfast was served at 08:00 and afterwards we descended towards a small little shop to get our supplies for the day.

After a descent you have to ascent of course and we did this using a road that started in the little town. Of course the road started out normal, then became really steep, forcing my dad to push his bike for the last part.

And this was only the beginning, after this we had to ride on something that used to be a road but was now overgrown with grass and bushes. The cherry on top where the trees that were blocking the road.

We managed to push our bikes around the trees and after that we only had rocky climbing in front of us. The whole morning was filled with these kind of things, impossible steep climbs on very bad roads, trees blocking our path, roads disappearing into the woods, … . The fact that we planned this day to be the longest route with the highest elevation started to look like not the best plan.

As we continued our day we had descents on roads filled with stones, sliding down a walking trail, … but we managed to get to a couple of lakes around 13:00. We hoped we could find a nice place to drink a coffee or something but the lakes were pretty deserted. We had to cycle along a busy route for a while and had to reroute and did manage to drink an (overpriced) cola at a certain point.

After the busy roads I was happy we were climbing away from the lake and we took the time to have some lunch while overlooking the second lake. We split up our remaining water and continued.

After this we still had quite some elevation left but luckily it was all relatively easy (compared to the rest of the day). We made pretty good progress and arrived at the car around 15:45.

This was another epic trip with my dad and I’m over the moon that I can share this experience with him. Can’t wait for the next adventure!

See you next time, probably somewhere in Los Angeles in November!