ヴァルトブレールの山小屋＆キャビン・トップ20

A beautiful legend. The little witch conjured up perfect hiking weather that day.

In my personal ranking, I divide the komoot highlights into those that offer something great (special viewpoints, cultural sights ...) and others that I classify as "useful to know", such as hiking car parks and rest huts. In the latter sense, a practical rest hut with enough space and benches on three sides.

The Georg Kalka Hut is already listed as a hiking highlight at https://www.komoot.com/de-de/highlight/646068

A quaint stop on the beer route 🤙

"Once upon a time on Walpurgis Night. All the witches in the area came to this place and danced exuberantly on their brooms. The witches had to be at least 200 years old before they were allowed to attend this festival. But a dear little witch, who was only 150 years old, would have loved to ride to the Walpurgis Festival. She could not control herself and secretly mingled with the wildly dancing older witches. Suddenly an aunt recognized her and dragged her to the head witch. The little witch was severely punished for her transgression. In revenge, on the next Walpurgis Night she secretly sneaked back to the witches' dance floor, waited until all the witches had gathered, swept all the brooms and witches' books into a big pile and burned them. Since then, nothing evil can be done by magic. Only the dear little witch still conjures up her good deeds. Be careful, you will experience it everywhere!” Source: https://www.ferienland-reichshof.de/natur-freizeit/wandern/waldlehrpfad.html

We started our tour at the Merten (Sieg) parking lot and hiked the Siegsteig section to Eitorf. We stopped for a snack at the Storker Hütte, with a wonderful view of the valley (after about 8 km). At KM 10, we had to walk along Schmelztalstraße for about 200 meters... not so pleasant! For the return journey from Eitorf to the starting point, we took the S12 train; the ticket price is currently €3 per adult. All in all, a very nice hike!

Well-maintained shelter at an important junction, good for a rest especially in rainy weather.

A nice rest area with seating.