La Hoube - Geissfels - Ochsenstein

Date of your route : Aug 24, 2025
Reliability of the description : ★★★★☆ Good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★☆ Good
Route interest : ★★★★☆ Good
Very busy route : No

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Date of your route : May 11, 2025
Reliability of the description : ★★★☆☆ Average
Ease of following the route : ★★★★☆ Good
Route interest : ★★★★★ Very good
Very busy route : Yes

At first the signage was a yellow triangle rather than a blue disc

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Date of your route : Mar 26, 2025
Reliability of the description : ★★★★☆ Good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★☆ Good
Route interest : ★★★★★ Very good
Very busy route : No

Les Branquignol-e-s (the famous group of epicurean hiker friends from Alsace) put on a very fine walk, and the reviews were unanimous! "Beautiful views and amazing castles". And yet we were in a little rain and fog in places, that's saying something. Many thanks to the initiator.

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Date of your route : Mar 31, 2025
Reliability of the description : ★★★★★ Very good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★★ Very good
Route interest : ★★★★★ Very good
Very busy route : No

A very pretty route with magnificent views.

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This route was created at the very beginning of Visorando; certainly the requirements were not the same. In those days, GPS devices were rarer and most hikers did well.
Furthermore, it seems to me that the distance and gradient are generated automatically.
You must not have produced many tours.
I'm sorry about the description, but it's hardly used any more, or even useless, as today's GPS systems are very reliable, including those on mobile phones.
I myself have more than forty hikes with descriptions and for some years now I have not published any more because it represents a huge amount of work in terms of description; always on a voluntary basis.
Sincerely

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Date of your route : Oct 19, 2024
Reliability of the description : ★★★☆☆ Average
Ease of following the route : ★★★☆☆ Average
Route interest : ★★★★☆ Good
Very busy route : No

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Date of your route : Oct 16, 2023
Reliability of the description : ★★★★☆ Good
Ease of following the route : ★★★☆☆ Average
Route interest : ★★★★★ Very good
Very busy route : Yes

Super day with great weather and indeed there are some tough climbs but overall a great route with lots of variety full of things to see, and especially the chestnut period, do not hesitate to sleep a bag ... Walk live with the app because as other people have already said the description and not super top for the route

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Date of your route : May 14, 2023
Reliability of the description : ★★★★★ Very good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★☆ Good
Route interest : ★★★★★ Very good
Very busy route : No

Lovely loop, superb views from the Geissfels.

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Date of your route : Jun 09, 2022
Reliability of the description : ★★★★★ Very good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★★ Very good
Route interest : ★★★★★ Very good
Very busy route : No

Generally a very fine route, except for a few ugly patches of forest near the Col de Valsberg. The view of the Geissfels and the Ochsenstein ruins is superb. The ridge path after the ruins is also superb.

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Date of your route : Mar 06, 2021
Reliability of the description : ★★★★★ Very good
Ease of following the route : ★★★☆☆ Average
Route interest : ★★★★★ Very good
Very busy route : No

Superb circuit with magnificent paths and beautiful views on this sunny day.
Approximate GPX route, resulting in a real km of 15 km.
Many thanks for this ride.

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Date of your route : Oct 26, 2020
Reliability of the description : ★★★★★ Very good
Ease of following the route : ★★☆☆☆ Disappointing
Route interest : ★★★★☆ Good
Very busy route : Yes

At the start there is no blue disc but a yellow triangle and blue rectangle.
The GPS route does not correspond with the markings.
The route signposting after Ochsenstein Castle is limited.
There are some nice climbs ahead that require a good level of fitness.
Unless I made a mistake, my route was 14 km.

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Date of your route : Jul 22, 2020
Reliability of the description : ★★★★☆ Good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★☆ Good
Route interest : ★★★★★ Very good
Very busy route : No

A hike with 2 superb viewpoints (particularly on the DABO rock) from the GEISSFELS and the surprising OCHSENSTEIN ruin (a discovery for me).
As far as the signposting is concerned, I can confirm the comment made by several hikers: between points 1 and 3 on the route, we encountered NO blue discs; instead, they have been replaced by YELLOW TRIANGLES.

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Date of your route : Jul 05, 2020
Reliability of the description : ★★★☆☆ Average
Ease of following the route : ★★★★☆ Good
Route interest : ★★★★☆ Good
Very busy route : No

At the start, use the app to find the right place more easily. Beware of the markings, which are sometimes random or too sparse, particularly at the car park at "point 5" (go left on the tarmac road for quite a while). A pleasant walk, mostly shaded as it is in the forest. A short section on the ridges offers a lovely panorama.

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Date of your route : Dec 09, 2019
Reliability of the description : ★★★★☆ Good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★☆ Good
Route interest : ★★★★★ Very good

Hello,

Lovely walk despite the rainy and windy weather. The Ochsenstein castles are interesting.
Note that from the start to point 3 (refuge du Geissfels....) you have to follow the yellow triangle. The IGN maps are not up to date.
See: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A2te...

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Date of your route : Dec 05, 2019
Reliability of the description : ★★★★☆ Good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★☆ Good
Route interest : ★★★★☆ Good

Made on a very "frosty" day, apart from a few details at certain "intersections", it was a good day. We cut to arrive at the ruins of the castle, as time was a little short.

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