Eifelsteig Stage 8

The Eifelsteig crosses the Eifel for 313 km from Aachen-Kornelimünster to Trier, under the motto "where rock and water meet". Stage 8 of 15 runs from Mirbach to Hillesheim. [Route details] Start: Mirbach · End: Hillesheim Via: Niederehe · Kerpen 26.35 km · 382 m to 532 m · climb 528 m [Good to know] - Assembled from the OpenStreetMap relation for the Eifelsteig and cut at the official stage ends. Eifel Tourismus gives the whole trail as 313 km; the assembled line comes to 315.5 km. - Elevation is sampled from a terrain model at 300 m spacing, not recorded on the ground. On ground this gentle a denser sample inflates the climb — the whole trail reads 7,962 m here against the operator's 7,746 m, but 17,464 m if every track point is used.