Last week a lot of snow has fallen, and temperatures dropped to -16 during the night.
Today, we decided to take a 25 kilometer walk from Putten, set up by a wanderer’s association. It lead us troght the woods to Garderen, where we had a rest in De Bonte Koe, and back; in nice sunny weather, with temperatures well below zero: When we started in Putten, it was -10, and when we arrived after our walk, it was -8.
A tough walk, because the frozen ground was very uneven, and at times slippery; and the dog neede attention once in a while: snow accumulated bwteen it’s toes and formed marbels – hard to walk on, so these had to be removed at times.
But we made the whole walk – and I had time to shoot some images. The walk has been tracked: the data is available in Garmin, general and Excel formats.
Month: December 2009
De Bilt – HollandscheRading
A walk in an area rather close: 25 kilometers between De Bilt (Near the town of Utrecht) and Hollandsche Rading, on the boundary of the provinces of Utrecht and Noord-Holland. We had walked here before, but that route went East, to Den Dolder. We’ve been at Hollansdsche Rading as well, walking the Western part of the Marskramerpad (from Amersfoort to The Hague), and when following the Utrechtpad we had done some of parts of this walk as well.
But most of today’s walk – in cold, but sunny weather – was new. The walk follows the structure of the landscape: where waterways run SouthWest – NorthEast and meadows are rather narrow but stretch hunderds of meters in length, which is typical for the western part of the province. At Hollandsche Rading, the Noord-Holland area of Gooi, with it’s woods, marks the northern boundary of the low lands; And our way back followed the somewhat higher lands – drier and wooded; being the location of estates and manors – noblemen and riches – , in stead of farms and peasants.
I took some images for an impression, and, as usual, the tracking data is available in Garmin, general and CSV formats.