From Much, where the young writer Heinrich Böll found refuge with his family during the Second World War, the stage leads through the sparsely populated Wahnbachtal valley. Sometimes over hills, sometimes through the valley, the trail mostly runs in the shadows of the extensive forests and past the picturesque Herrenteich - the "Mucher Meer” (Much Sea). The final third of the stage offers views down onto of the broad floodplains and picturesque views over the Bergisches Land hills.