Hiking in the winter, For me, it may still be a few degrees colder

mud flats are very popular as a summer activity. And although the travel routes to the north, indeed, stop from October, they leave, even in winter

mud flats are very popular as a summer activity. And although travel routes to the north, indeed, from October, stop, leave, even in winter, almost every day for expeditions across the sea. NU.nl went on a winter night trip through the dark.

“Have all your lamps and pay attention to it,” says wadloopgids In Scholtens. A group of five participants will gather around him and turn off the light. It is now pitch dark on Issue at the lighthouse milestones on Schiermonnikoog Island and Borkum Island. The guide wipes his foot in the mud. Immediately, light, a trail of tiny green flonkeringen under his feet. “Zeevonk,” he said. Participants will begin to be excited by mud and ice skating, a sparkling patch of small stars behind them.

The activity was detected in winter

only a few people know that they are mud flats in winter. “Getting up is in the winter,” says Anita (Pat), founder of Winter Tours in Pieterburen. “In 1963, for the first time, the idea was to cross the ice to the island of Schiermonnikoog-to-run. Then it was modified to be a summer activity.”

The main differences between hiking in summer, distance, depth, natural light and dress code. In the summer, according to you, it’s perfectly fine with a pair of high-top sneakers and a pair of shorts. In winter, it’s the right thing to dry off and stay warm. Rain boots and rain paints are required. The tour is limited to the upper parts of the tidal flats. “The water is up to your calves,” says Pat.

This is not the North Pole, but the Mud Flats at high tide in February 2012 (Photo: Coen van der Molen).

Jagged winter conditions

it’s winter, walks are even more unpredictable. In heavy rain or storm, I can’t go any further. “The first time we booked, we already had a hotel booked, but as it turned out, the trip was cancelled,” says the couple from Utrecht who are now on their second try.

“Keep moving, or you’ll get pulled.” Wadloopgids, Arno

A group of waddengid Scholtens came out of the evening twilight, armed with a wadstok (a stick for holding and a headlamp, a dike around it and leave mud on it. There was a strong wind blowing in the open sea, and quite a bit harder than sitting in front of the band. The mud was slippery, and each step is accompanied by the sound of the opener being turned off. “Keep moving, otherwise you’ll get pulled,” says Scholtens.

Despite the wind and a cold of 1 degree above zero, no one will be cold. “Phew, the sweat is on my back,” said the plottering woman on her feet with a handjob. “It’s me, I guess it’s still a few degrees colder,” they joke with each other. In several places, a lot of carts have to get out, but there are also parts with heavy sand, where walking is easier.

in Vatna Moru in the last light. (Photo: Video by the author).

Anywhere else in the country is the same as here

until Now it was complete darkness, and the cutting of the first people who had their own lights. “I’ll let you choose what to do, but within twenty minutes at most to get used to your eyes in the dark,” says Scholtens. One of the charms of an exhilarating mud flat hike in winter is that the darkness and emptiness that is so hard to find in the Netherlands is well experienced.

They show more and more stars in the sky, and more and more zeevonk on their feet. If vuurwerksterretjes records it in the light of algae at every turn. “I can’t just go down and look,” says one man as if hypnotized.

two and a half hours later, everyone was dry on the face. From the group, taking one last look at the quiet Wadden Sea, which is just another of the lighthouses on the Wadden Sea and Ems Harbor. It seems very late at night, but the truth is that it is only 6:30 p.m. Someone says: “You won’t find it anywhere else as compact as it is here.”

Practical information NU.nl went together with the most recognized wadloo arrangement from Pieterburen. This tour lasts 2.5 hours and costs EUR 17.50 per person per day. The tour is suitable for children from 6 years of age.

in addition, you can take a tidal tour and, on request, from the islands of Schiermonnikoog and Ameland. For all walks, the departure time depends on the tides, so every day at a different time. In case of bad weather, the excursion may be cancelled.

This will bring out your well-fitting waterproof rubber boots and thick knee socks, old shorts or trousers over that, raincoats and a waterproof jacket, hat, scarf, pair of gloves

Updated date: December 25, 2019, 1:02 p.m

Categories: Optical Illusion
Source: newstars.edu.vn

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