Your third stage of the day leads over particularly lonely and natural forest paths and leaves you completely to rest.From Johanniskreuz it goes first to the Burgalbsprung and the Burgalbweiher. The Burgalbe, which rises here, is the most important tributary to the Schwarzbach, the third largest river in the Palatinate Forest.Already after one kilometer Burgalbe and a small brook join together into the Schwarzbach. You follow the upper course of the Schwarzbach and then leave the valley up to the Hahnenkopf.Here you will pass several streams and ponds, all of which also flow into the Schwarzbach. You follow the Pfälzer Waldpfad on comfortable and quiet paths to your today's stage destination, the Naturfreundehaus in Heltersberg.