Day 2 leaves the sharper Black Forest edges behind and settles into a different rhythm. Out of Donaueschingen, you roll through open farmland, small villages and wide country that keeps pulling your eyes towards the horizon. The climbing does not arrive as one big mountain moment. It comes in waves. First a long, almost unnoticed drag uphill. Then the day’s clearest effort: around 4.3 km and roughly 140 m of ascent to the high point at about 848 m. Not brutal, but steady and exposed enough to make itself felt. After that, the route softens. More rolling. More flow. Woods give way to meadows, fields and quiet settlements. The closer you get to Pfullendorf, the calmer everything feels. A stage that does not shout, but carries you forward.
