Well, there are tours you sign up with. :-( I usually go it alone. For the most part, if you don't make a campfire, you can camp just about anywhere up there. Providing, of course, there is a spot....gets kind of steep. ;-). The roads are challenging in and of themselves....everything from pavement, gravels, and plain old dirt! lots and lots of hill climbing and steep decent.
If you want, I have some fairly interesting routes from my previous trips. They hit most of the highlights and several of the old, built by hand, forts. Some of them (routes, not forts!) cross the French/Italian boarder multiple times (nothing but a painted rock to mark them)
For some nice trails, have a look on this site: http://www.dangerousroads.org/europe/germany.html
Shows heaps for basically any country you can imagine.
Well, I have never been to Black Bear, so really couldn't say. Don't misunderstand though...its not "trail", it's "Trails". You could spend a couple of months up there and still not see all of it. ...and that is just the Western Alps......
If you´re looking for trails on gravel roads, just cross the french border, then you´ll be in trail-heaven.
For having fun beside the road on a sunday, the best adress nearby Kaiserslautern would be the "Freies Fahren"-Event in Eisenberg, organized by http://www.kurpaelzer.de/
Concerning the Western-Alps: There are many, many tracks described in books and online too - but most of them presumably in german, italian or french
as most travellers will be located in the corresponding countries.
Markus
Even it´s a thread about building up his Jeep, "Stumpy" was located in K-Town too and described some nice trips he made with his Jeep starting from there.
http://www.expeditionportal.com/for...taco-s-has-gone-over-to-the-darkside-XJ-style
Markus
I don't know how long you are going to be over here, but in the near future we are going to make a run up through Scandinavia (mostly Sweden and Norway)...one of the things on my bucket list. Since we didn't get to do Morocco this year it is kind of our plan B. Maybe you would be interested in joining us?