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O8 Torfhaus Route II
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- 21.01 km long
- Round trip
- Difficulty: medium
- Condition: medium
- Great panorama
- Mountain bike

View of Altenau

The Dammgraben above Altenau

Great light moods in the Upper Harz forests

View from the Wolfswarte

- 2:00 h
- 21.01 km
- 648 m
- 648 m
- 448 m
- 904 m
- 456 m
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- Start: Tourist Information, Hüttenstraße 9, 38707 Altenau

The route leads up into the High Harz to beautiful viewpoints.

High-altitude route with two steep climbs and two single-trail sections. From the Wolfswarte there is a perfect view over the landscape. Around Torfhaus and the Dammgraben many hikers are often on the move in good weather. The Dammgraben once supplied energy to the mines on the Clausthal plateau.

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Harz: Magische Gebirgswelt

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Pavements

Street (13%)

Gravel (51%)

Trail (23%)

Path (1%)

Asphalt (12%)

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Additional information

The Volksbank Arena Harz is also available on YouTube.

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Map

**The Harz for mountain bikers**

Through the extremely varied North German low mountain range landscape run 74 signposted mountain bike circular routes (total length 2,300 km), which are classified into three levels of difficulty. Official map set "The Harz for mountain bikers." Completely revised and expanded new edition. The new map set consists of a route book with detachable individual descriptions and detailed maps of the routes. In addition, there is a topographic overview map (1:50,000) printed on weatherproof and durable POLYART material.

ISBN 978-3-935806-28-2

Price €16.80

Publisher map solutions, Karlsruhe 2017

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Contact

Clausthal-Zellerfeld

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