Südl. Ruhrgebiet, Niederbergisches Land (West)

Today more in home areas. Since it is getting dark earlier and earlier, I shorten the journey to my hikes if there is no other way. Starting from my favorite parking lot in Duisburg Großenbaum, it goes in the direction of 6 Seen-Platte and Dickelsbach. Then on a detour over a forest (deer meadows) which… read more

Correct is: 3:22 hours and a hiking distance of 16.9 km / average 5.0 km / h and approx. 170 m.

Komoot completely screwed up the beginning. I was told exactly the way and the correct point was always shown on the map, but the first 5.4 km were not recorded at all. Then the recording started. More than… read more

Happy New Year to everyone who reads this. Today my New Year's hike in the south of Mülheim. A hike without large cliffs but very pleasant to hike. It was easy, especially because of the warm weather. However, there were many areas in the forest that had puddles or small hiking trails that were plowed… read more

More of a home game today, the good weather was ideal. Route profile is rather easy and most of the paths are wider and easy to hike. But the sun, forest and fresh air are good for you. The smaller single trails were borderline passable in a few places because some areas were heavily rutted by coarse… read more

Almost a home game, since I got a nasty bruise on my back almost 2 weeks ago but also wanted to get out again, I chose a "winter route". For me, winter routes mean short journeys and paths that can usually tolerate bad weather. Starting point hiking car park Kalkstraße (actually always enough free spaces… read more

This time I put together a route in the south of Mülheim a.d.Ruhr. Start at a small parking lot that is hardly used, from there it went to Witthausbusch, a public park in Mülheim, a mixture of parks with a deer park and wide paths and small trails through the surrounding forest. It's worth it for short… read more

The nice weather motivated me again today. After I hiked the northern part of the Ratinger Stadtwald on my last tour, the southern part came today. Starting point again a smaller parking lot for hikers (can be used without time limit) We started east through the Ratinger Stadtwald and shortly after the… read more

Nice weather was announced, so get out into nature. It started from the hiking car park "An den Hanten" in Lintorf. After 5 minutes back to the car (set parking disc, maximum 4 hours). Then 2nd start about 300 m district road and then in the direction of Ratinger Waldsee which you can comfortably walk… read more

Today Mülheim Mintard and the surrounding area. It is the westernmost of my tours planned for 2021 in the southern Ruhr area / Niederbergischen. Start of a hiking car park in the middle of the forest and then it went uphill and downhill on forest paths, sometimes wider, sometimes narrower with beautiful… read more

Eating - Schuir and Heisiwald. I had put together a beautiful route of exactly 21.1 km through the above-mentioned parts of Essen. The surface was varied with a little too much asphalt. Fields, forests and meadows as well as and always beautiful uphill - downhill. Busy roads or unsightly sections were… read more

During today's tour, I wasn't even sure if it would work out when I was planning it. Even finding a parking space seemed difficult. My choice, Sinkesbruch was a direct hit (see last photo). From there in a south-easterly direction through the outskirts of Hösel, some single-family houses and green spaces… read more

Looking at the map, is there someone with a hat? Today a very spacious loop around Mülheim/Essen Airport. Just south of the airport you were already in the countryside and that only rarely changed during the entire hike. On a pleasant wavy profile we went in the direction of Rohmbachtal and Rossenbecktal… read more

Today we went from the Essen-Kupferdreh stop in the direction of Baldeneysee, which can be reached on foot in just under 5 minutes. Along the shore, it first goes through the Heisinger Bogen bird sanctuary, further along the lake until you reach the winding tower of the Carl Funke colliery. Above there… read more

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It was 19.1 km, took 3 hours 47 minutes. 360 m up and down and an average of 5.1 km / h.

Today I went to Velbert, after the tours in Essen Oefte in the west and Heidhausen in the north and the Hespertal in the northeast I wanted to close this gap today. Starting at the… read more

More about KM 3.32 / KM 5.15 / 8.60 and 10.40 in the following text. This time, the wonderful weather lured me to the area north of Wülfrath with a generous hike around the limestone quarry of Rheinkalk Wülfrath. Starting point Hammerstein car park. From there we went in the direction of the time tunnel… read more

Due to the season, today's excursion was chosen more suitable for winter, so without many trail experiments. Starting at the Stindermühle hiking car park, we went straight into the Stinderbachtal, beautiful paths where you still have to keep your eyes open but sometimes tolerate some rain. Later also… read more

Description of my tour. The starting point was the hiking car park above the Auermühle, beautifully situated but not huge, it can be full at times, but there are also some in the surrounding area. From there on, I first used smaller and larger paths in the adjacent forest area after KM 1 you have to… read more

As part of a small donation hike, I decided to hike in and around Oefte in the south of Essen. The weather was very pleasant at the beginning, but since you weren't used to these temperatures, it later hit you hard. The hiking route had a wavy profile with 2 slightly longer climbs that were not that… read more