We started the morning off by parking in Monschau, by the Glashütte Monschau. There’s a nice, reasonably priced parking garage, which is also minutes from the Old Town.
After the rest stop, we continued on to the highest peak of our hike. The view was breathtaking. Neko was a little nervous overlooking the mountaintop.
As we made our way down from the highest peak, we heard water flowing, i was hopeful for a waterfall, and even though I didn't get that wish. I enjoye d what I did see; a flowing river!
If you are hiking out in the forest, make sure to download offline maps prior to your trip. During our hike, I had very little data, so having offline maps were nice. I do it on Google Maps.
This was another point of interest on our hike. Although it was closed, they give tours of this monastery where they do woodwork, you can get things to personalize here or purchase a birdhouse. 
At some point, we did also cross over t he Belgium border from Germany on our hike. I can't fathom how in one-day I’l l travel between two or three countries.