Track 9: Rheeze to Ommen - 16.1 km / 21 Photos

05 October 2024
Again I have beautiful autumn weather when I want to complete the last 16.8 km of track 9 of the trail.
As I found no place to stop for drinks or food I walked the whole track with only a short break on a bench with my water bottle.
I was happy to find out I did 16.1 km in 3 hours 25 minutes meaning a walking speed of 4.7 km/hr!
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The road that leads me on the way from Rheeze
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Beautiful paths between fields and forests
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The dew makes all the cobwebs visible on the side of the track
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The path is difficult to walk on due to all the tire tracks of forestry equipment and trucks when clearing the trees in this production forest
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Beautifully restored farmhouse
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Crossing the river Vecht at Junne means it needs to be crossed 4 times; first the secondary channel through which the water can flow as naturally as possible ...
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... then across the weir which, together with other weirs, ensures that there is always water in the river everywhere ...
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... next over the fish-traps that allow fish to pass the weir ...
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... and finally over the ships lock that is used for recreational shipping
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Downstream the various channels in the river come together again
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The navigable part of the river is at the end of these agricultural lands
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Through sustainable forest management, the Junne forest becomes a climate-adaptive, future-proof and biodiverse coniferous and deciduous forest
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The path goes over an old sandy road along the Vecht between Junne and Zeesse
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A deep pool called the death pool because according to tradition an Eastern European Cossack drowned here in 1813 while pursuing Napoleon's army
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In the cut-off meanders of the river Vecht, the original river valley flora grows and blooms
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In the wide Vechtdal, drifting dunes are still found in some places
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Two swans in a stagnant pool in the forest full of algae and duckweed
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View of Ommen on the northern side of the Vecht river
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The old train station of Ommen now a restaurant where I enjoyed a drink and a snack waiting for my train going home
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The Arriva train that will take me to Zwolle where I will take an Itercity train to The Hague
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The recorded track of today's hike
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