Tour de Baraque Michel - Mont Rigi - Polleur 10.7 km
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 6.66 mi
- Elevation gain
- 499 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Easy
- Elevation loss
- 499 ft
- Max elevation
- 2,229 ft
- TrailRank
-
77
4.6
- Min elevation
- 1,998 ft
- Trail type
- Loop
- Time
- 3 hours 54 minutes
- Coordinates
- 1097
- Uploaded
- January 8, 2017
- Recorded
- December 2016
near Mont Rigi, Wallonia (Belgique)
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Itinerary description
You start at Baraque Michel, where there is a bus stop and a large parking lot beside a popular inn. You cross the street and follow the path on the edge of the moor, and soon enter a board walk which takes you across moors along the Hille river. A bit further you come to a bifurcation with a borderstone on the former Prussian-Belgian border (you will see several borderstones around Baraque Michel). You turn right, follow another boardwalk to the edge of the forest, and cross the woods back to the N68 at Mont Rigi. Here is another inn. You continue onto the Fagne de Polleur. A former boardwalk is in bad condition, so we had to walk around the north side of the fen to get to the Polleur stream. From here, you walk parallel to the stream, slowly ascending on a track into fir woods with sometimes slippery roots. After a bit more than 1 km you descend to a forest road. You cross the Polleur stream and continue northwest through the woods to a bridge across the Ruisseau de Baraque. The bridge is not more than a wooden beam that you can hold on to when crossing the stream on rocks. Shortly after the bridge you turn northeast past the Croix de Fiancés and return across the Grande Fagne back to Baraque Michel.
Waypoints
Information point
2,201 ft
Baraque Michel
Well-known as a starting point for hikes through the vens, the inn and the chapel.
Information point
2,182 ft
Boardwalk
Here the boardwalk starts across the Fagne Wallonne. You can follow this track along the Helle river, which start here on the fen, all the way to Eupen.
Information point
2,073 ft
Bridge on the Helle
Here there is a bridge on the young Helle, as well as another borderstone on the former border between Prussia and Belgium (before World War I)
Bridge
2,108 ft
Bridge on the Polleur
Bridge on the young Polleur river. From here the path/boardwalk follows the river, but slowly goes up into the fir forest giving excellent views across the fen.
River
2,014 ft
Bridge on the Ruisseau de la Baraque
A beam across the stream can be used as a hand rail.
Information point
2,207 ft
Fagne de Polleur
You enter the Fagne de Polleur here. You used to be able to walk around it on boardwalks, but part of the boardwalk has been replaced by a small dike of mud and stones, and part of it is not accessible as the boards have rotted away.
Information point
2,215 ft
Mont Rigi
There is a restaurant here.
Information point
2,019 ft
Polleur
You cross the Polleur on a forest road. There is a small refuge here.
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Très beau parcours...
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Very beautiful walk last weekend 02/02/19.
Thanks Simon, for your review. Glad you enjoyed it.
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Leuke wandeling met mooie uitzichten.
Bedankt voor je review, Charlotte. Mooi dat het je bevallen is!
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Magnifique randonnée.. Je recommande chaudement 👌
Thanks for your review and recommendation, Nikisan!
Mooie tocht, leuke variatie van onverharde paden, knuppelpaden en bospaden met de boomwortels als extra behendigheidsoefening. Prachtige uitzichten, we hadden mooi weer , 18 graden en lichte bries volgens het weerstation op de route. 👍
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Top walk, zie vorige commentaar.
Bedankt Timeos, voor je mooie aanbeveling! Mooi dat je genoten hebt!
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Toffe Hoge Veense wandeling. Venen, vlinderpaden, bos, passage Baraque Michel, een mooie en best makkelijke wandeling. Hier en daar moet je uitkijken voor losliggende planken op de vlinderpaden, en er zullen best stukken bijzijn (westelijk gedeelte) die in de winter flink modderig worden.
Dag WaJe! Bedankt voor je commentaar en beoordeling! Dat van de blubber in de winter klopt, wel eigenlijk alleen vlak bij de Ruisseau de la Baraque.