I worked my way up from the Pegnitz valley along lonely forest paths. Always trusting the arrow on the display of my GPS device, without which I would have been hopelessly lost in the labyrinth of the German forest. Down by the river, where the rainwater that had disappeared was gushing out again, I could have refreshed my supplies. But the bike was rolling just fine. First over a few nice single trails from the Anka valley over to the Kipfental, then down to Velden. There it was vertical limestone that diverted my attention from my dry throat. Climbers call the steep walls directly on the banks of the Pegnitz "The Beach". The beach turned out to be a green strip barely a metre wide in places between the river and the rock, on which a path led me further downstream.
You can find these tours in the PDF download:
1st Pegnitz Valley (31.05 km | 895 m elevation gain | 2 h 45 min)
2. Eibenfels and Klausberg (28.53 km | 841 m elevation gain | 2 h 50 min)
3 Glatzenstein tour (25.80 km | 844 m elevation gain | 2 h 35 min.)
