After a couple of days of windy and showery weather today announced itself dry with big sunny breaks. In the late afternoon I rode out for an exploratory ride into Meerdaelwoud. I quickly decided to ride towards Nethen and then ride the loop to Bossut and Gottechain. I could see the arrowing for next weekends' organised ride - organised by Eric Robert - was already there. The ride starts in the Sports hall of Grez-Doiceau and might be worth considering. I followed it for a while because it happened to go where I was going.

Up into Gottechain and then down along the narrow path in the fields. Back up again and onwards towards Nodebais. Here Eric went for other venues so I rode on without any arrows. Down along Valduc and then back upwards for a long series of trails into Meerdael Forest. The trails were moist from time to time and were also suffering from the many machines used in the exploitation that is still going on with a lot of trees being felled and torn through the forest and along the singletrails. Those singletrails are now doubletrails and it will take a while for them to recover from the heavy traffic.

Endomondo track


Ride Stats : 41K and 515 heightmeters (Garmin) in 2h16mins

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