Germany: Road bike tours in the Hotzenwald - In the southern Black Forest, steep valleys lead to high altitudes
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· 22.03.2013
No, you don't want to disturb the man while he is so obviously enjoying life, leaning calmly against the pasture fence. His tractor is parked next to him, the engine chugging away. The farmer gazes pensively into the distance, to the south, where the silhouette of the Swiss Jura rises up and just behind it the Alps. For racing cyclists, this is a dangerously beautiful view, as they can easily forget to steer when descending the narrow roads. "On a good day, you can see the Alpine chain from Säntis to Mont Blanc," enthuses Axel Dietrich, who accompanies us on the bike. The architect from Dachsberg, a small village in the centre of the Hotzenwald, loves this far-reaching view: "It's always a reward for the climb from the Rhine." And it ends in the southern Black Forest at an altitude of just over a thousand metres. You need good legs for this. Between Laufenburg and Ibach, steep climbs alternate with short intermediate descents, adding up to more than a thousand metres in altitude over a distance of 38 kilometres.
You can download the entire article with these tours and the GPS data below:
- Tour 1: Wehratal (84 km, 1,700 m elevation gain, max. altitude 1,070 metres, max. gradient 16 percent, mountainous characteristics)
- Tour 2: Upper Black Forest (80 km, 1,200 m elevation gain, max. altitude 990 metres, max. gradient 17 per cent, hilly)
GPS DATA: TOUR offers the tour data for free download. You can download the tracks in GPX format directly onto a GPS device or view them on your computer in Google Earth or Google Maps.
