Uedem-Hochwald | Hochwald 10 and Kleve-Keeken

Waypoint introductions and full write-ups

1. 1. Uedem-Hochwald | Hochwald 10

   Ice made this ridge. Hochwald 10 lies in a belt of low hills between Xanten, Uedem and Kalkar that the glaciers of the Saale ice age shoved up from the floor of the Rhine valley, a pile of sand and gravel pushed into a long arc that now stands a few dozen metres above the plain. That is not much, but on a landscape this flat it is enough to hold a forest and give the whole area a different character, with drier soil, pines, birches and oaks, and views that open suddenly where a clearing allows.

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   Recorded stop-planning note

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   Planning note

   Uedem-Hochwald | Hochwald 10 is where the day begins. Next is Till.

2. 2. Till

   The Lower Rhine around Kalkar and Kleve is wide, flat country: green polders, willows along drainage ditches, brick farmhouses and church spires visible for miles. Till is a small village here, part of Bedburg-Hau, just off the Rhine embankments between Kalkar and Kleve, with Emmerich across the river. It lies close to the line of the Roman frontier, the Lower German Limes, which followed the Rhine to the North Sea.

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   Recorded stop-planning note

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   Planning note

   Till comes up about 18 km into the recorded legs. Next is Kleve-Keeken.

3. 3. Kleve-Keeken

   Here the Rhine stops being a German river. Just downstream of the village of Keeken, the great river crosses the border into the Netherlands, and a few kilometres further on it divides, with the Waal carrying most of the water west and the Pannerdens Canal leading to the Nederrijn and the IJssel. In Roman times, this was the northern frontier of the empire, the Lower German Limes, and Keeken is one of the sites listed as part of the UNESCO frontier, with traces of Roman military installations along the old river course.

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   Recorded stop-planning note

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   Planning note

   about 33 km into the recorded legs you reach Kleve-Keeken. Next is back through Till.

4. 4. back through Till

   Return visit. Read the place description above.

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   Recorded stop-planning note

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   Planning note

   back through Till, late in the day. Next is Uedem-Hochwald | Hochwald 10.

5. 5. Uedem-Hochwald | Hochwald 10

   Return visit. Read the place description above.

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   Recorded stop-planning note

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   Planning note

   Back at Uedem-Hochwald | Hochwald 10. That is the ride.