Track 6: Schoonloo to Sleen - 24.4 km / 22 Photos

8 July 2024
This morning I took the train from home to Assen and then bus to the Rotonde in Schoonloo from where I picked up the starting
point of today's trail. I carry ba 30L day backpack as the plan is to stay overnight in Sleen and continue walking tomorrow.
In Sleen I found my way to camp site Pieterom where I rented the 'Pieterwagen', a nice mobile home, for the night.
Unfortunately I suffered quite some (osteoarthritis) pain in my right ankle so I decided to return home the next morning.
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The country road leading me out of Schoonloo passing some modern houses
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Flint bank, made of boulders in 1923 during the development of the area through work provision
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The stones and boulders that were excavated during land reclamation were used, among other things, to pave forest roads
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The Twins, remnants of ponds and marshy raised bog with rare flora and fauna
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The path between different plots in the production forest
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Seagulls pee, remnants of ponds and marshy raised bog with rare flora and fauna
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The Kijl, remnants of raised bog and wet heathland with fens. Grazing by Scottish highlanders
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Oranjekanaal, constructed between 1853 and 1861 to develop the peat areas around Odoorn and Emmen
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A fen in the Leenderzand forest
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The Pieterpad monument in honor of the inventors and developers Bertje Jens and Toos Goorhuis-Tjalsma
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Galgenberg, large prehistoric burial mound
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Aircraft memorial, remains of a British bomber that crashed here in 1943
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The path to Sleen on the horizon after I passed the Drachten - Emmen road through a small tunnel
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A potato field where I spoke to a farmer with the church of Sleen in the background
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Approaching a modern farmhouse just outside Sleen wher I will deviate from the route and turn right, the quickest route to the caravan I rented for the night
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A sporty team of two horses at a trot
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This farm has a mini-camping with a maximum amount of camp spaces and also a caravan for rent where I will stay for the night
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Exhausted and with my shoes off but still glad that I walked the 24.4 kilometers to this campsite
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In the caravan the bed is waiting for me ...
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.. and I could even do some cooking ...
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... but I will just enjoy the quiet evening before I take a shower and go to rest
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The recorded track of the route I walked today
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