A group from Utrecht, named DES, organizes walks in this area (just South of Apeldoorn) every year, in several distances: 5, 10, 15, 20 and 30 kilometers. Actually, most of the routes are along the same paths, tracks and roads, and extra loops would increase the distance, and shortcuts shorten your walk.
Since this was one of two closest to home today, and one we hadn’t done for some time, we decided to take the 20-km route, starting and ending in the gym in the village of Ugchelen, but we encountered some parkins en route, so you could start anywhere along the way. I didn’t see a pub on the route, the organization had a temporary rest at Caesarea, a building of the Salvation Army, at 6, and 16 kilometers.
These walks are forest walks, in different types of woodland, and with sunny intervals, the autumn colours were very brighht and the walk was nicer than expected. I didn’t bring a camera so you’ll have to do with the track-projections on Garmin’s TopoNL maps and GoogleEarth – on which I also show where the extra loops for 15 and 30 kilometers are located – that is: where I think these are.
Tracking data is, as ususal, available in Garmin, generic and CSV fomats.
Month: October 2009
Driebergen-Maarn vice versa
This is a route from a magazine. We made this nearby walk because the weather was said to get rainy in the afternoon, and since we could start early, we might have a dry walk: little time was lost for travelling to the starting point. It pais off – almost: The last few kilometers we walked in light rain – too much to require a raincoat to be worn, but not that heavy that we had to put on our rain-protected trousers.
The track runs through woods, hits the village of Austerlitz where we had a rest in restaurant “De Jonckvrouw”, headed for Maarn (cross the road! otherwise you will head into the entrance to the motorway) and get passed the former sandpit – where once was a hill named “Maarnsche Berg”, there is now a hole in the surface – to become a recreation area but nature is allowed to restore itself – so it’s closed for the public at the moment; finally getting back near the station of Zeist-Driebergen.
The walk has been tracked in Garmin, general and Excel formats, and some images to give an impression of the area we passed.
Vorden-Doetinchem
This is the first stage of the Southern Pieterpad. I’ve started this some time ago but had to head back, this time we made it all the way down – 24 kilometers or so.
Halfway we found a rest in the restaurant on a bungalow park – not easy to find but looking around at the crossing, we found the entrance into the park – no admittance, officially, but heading for the restaurant was allowed. That would be a nice location to stay overnight, the landlord has some ideas but the owner of the park objects….
The first part of this walk has been logged before, and since it’s part of the Pieterpad, today’s information (inclusing the full track) is found on the Pieterpad pages.
Rheinsteig: Bonn to Rheinbohl
The Rheinsteig passes the Eastern banks of the Rhine, between Bonn and Wiesbaden, altogether about 270 kilometers. We’ve done the part between Braubach – South of Koblenz – and Wiesbaden in previous years (Fall 2007 we did Braubach to Sankt-Goarshausen and in September 2008 we covered Sankt-Goarshausen to Wiesbaden). So this year we started the Northern part, from Bonn to Braubach. We only had five days to walk – we made it to Rheinbohl, North of Neuwied. These walks passes most of the Siebengebirge, that is mostly covered with woods. More to the south, the flat lands on top are open, and the slopes to the Rhine may have been covered with vineyards – if not abandoned.
We camped on a site in Bad Hoennigen – the only one we could locate in a reasonable distance of the path – but since all walks would start and end in a city having a railway station, we could do with a drive to the destination station, travelled by train to the start of the daily walk, and walked back to the car. It meant a ascent from, and descent to the station, that you had to do the other way the next day – at times short and steep, at times shallow but over a long way. Except for one, all walk were under 20 kilometers, but each looked well over due to the profile: going up and down almost all the way. In all, we did about 80 kilometers in those five days.
These are my impressions and tracks
Voerstreek
This is one of those little jewels you just run into: the GR120. We found it in a magazine, and though we had already done half of it quite some time ago and in a different direction (the western loop of the Krijtlandpad), the other loop is far more to the South and leads through the Belgian area named “Voerstreek” – Dutch speaking in an otherwise French-speaking province of Belgium. We looked down on the area when we did the Krijtlandpad, now we would get through it. As hilly as Limburg – if not more.
Officially, the route starts in Eijsden, one of the most southern places in the Netherlands, and leads to Teuven in Belgium; return is along the Southern route of the Krijtlandpad. But since we couldn’t locate a camping site at Teuven, but found one in Eijsden (though 5 kilometers off route…) we parked in Teuven, had our overnight stay in Eijsden and walked back the next day. As it turned out, there was a small camping site in Teuven, but since we already got there, we kept to our plan.
On our first day, we encountered camping Margraten, exactly on the route, but it didn’t allow dogs…
These are the images and track displays, an the full tracking data is available in Garmin, general and CSV format.
Vuursche Route
Once again, I downloaded a GPS route of about 20 kilometer. This one starts and ends in Park Groenendaal, just outside Baarn, and leads through the woods to Lage Vuursche, just tipping that village, runs down to Den Dolder, rounding a golf course and heads back via Soest and Soestdijk to the Groenendaal Estate. A number of landscapes are passed: The parklands of the estate, different woodlands and meadows, and urban areas.
I took some images (for most, I cannot remember exactly where these were taken), and the route has been tracked – the data is available in Garmin, exchangable and CSV formats.
(Walked 08-Jul-2009)
Veluwezoom
A Cycletour based on GPS waypoints.
Starting at a locatiojn just outside Dieren, it leads into National Park veluwezoom, mainly woodland. First stop was the former farm Carolina Hoeve – now a restaurant. Next the route leads the highest point of the area, where a tower of 50 m offers a clear view of most of the South-Eastern Veluwe; used to watch for wildfires in this wooded (and often very dry) area of the country. From there, the route zigzags to the village of Loenen, where we took a detour to visit the War Cemetery for civilians that died in captivity of due to acts of resistion during the Second Worldwar. With a large bend the route returns to Dieren – part of which we walked in spring, under different conditions.
Images are available – as well as the tracking data in Garmin and General formats, and the waypoints in CSV format.
More near Leusden
Two tours near Leusden:
A cycletour of approximately 30 kilometers, riding from Leusden, via Stoutenburg and Hoevelaken to Terschuur, from there riding towards Barneveld, but changing direction towards De Glind – having a break at a newly openend restaurant – back to Leusden.
A walk to restaurant De Spitsheuvel – still closed when we got there – through to woods South of the highway, passing Kamp Amersfoort – a second worldwar remainder and commemoration site – to the border of thew Zon en Schild hospital; Back along the North side of the highway, over the belgenMonument – a monument commemorating the help given to belgian refugees during the First Worldwar, and Amersfoort woods and city outskirts.
There are no images, I only tracked both tours.
Warnsborn
This is a route following GPS-waypoints; it can be downloaded from the site of the Dutch railways. Starting at the Arnhem railway station, it passes one of the cities parks (Zijpedael, part of Park Sonsbeek), and the Warnsborn esate. Tippng the Airborne War cemetery in Oosterbeek, it runs through an area know as “the valley of the 1000-year old oaktrees” – named as such by a romantic writer that dwelled this area quite often – to Wolfheze.
That is where we aprkes our car – easier than in Arnhem – and went to the starting point by train, and walked back.
The images taken can be seen here.
There is no tracking data, because the information can be downloaded here – but for reference, I added an estimation on MapSource and built up a projection on GoogleEarth, as usual.