Subject: BeDeNe<br/>
Date: Jun 05, 2001 @ 04:57<br/>
Author: Brendan Whyte (&quot;Brendan Whyte&quot; &lt;brwhyte@hotmail.com&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-808378492">Here is a nice German 1:25k map of our favourite tript.<br/>
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For those going on the September point-crawl, may I suggest taking the road <br/>
from Aachen that heads west in the top of the picture, turning south just <br/>
before the rial line, going under the line and then paralleling it up the <br/>
hil towards the tript.<br/>
A road turning south off this passes over the rial line in a small bridge a <br/>
few 100 m before the rail line gowen into a tunnel. This bridge ends in some <br/>
fields, so you would need to park before it.<br/>
There is a lovely walk up a hedged fenceline  past the words &quot;Im Paaf&quot; on <br/>
the map, as it heads towards the strange salient in the BEDe boundary just <br/>
south of the tript. The fields here are separated by a hedgelike linear <br/>
copse, with a foottrack in the middle. It emerges at the border on the <br/>
northern corner of the salient, where there is a boundary stone and a small <br/>
turnstile to allow access from the foottrack along the BeDe border to cross <br/>
directly over the salient. A similar turnstile interupts the small fence on <br/>
the southern side of the salient as the path enters the woods again. The SW <br/>
half of the salient, the end half of it, is actually in the woods too, <br/>
unlike as depicted on the map. Thus the field forming the salient runs only <br/>
halfway into it, before ending in a fence and trees. You have to walk <br/>
another 100m along the imaginery extension of the field fenceline into the <br/>
woods to reach the pillars at the end of the salient, one at each corner.<br/>
Returning to the turnstiles, you can then follow the fence to the tripoint <br/>
along a pleasant track, Belgian woods on one side, German pasture on the <br/>
other.<br/>
You can return to your vehicle, part way down the hill from the tripoint, <br/>
along a German track between German woods and pasture. You cannot drive all <br/>
the way to the tripoint up the German side, but have to stop at the final <br/>
road junction a few 100m short.<br/>
<br/>
Another option is to take a train fomr Aachen to the first stop into <br/>
Belgium, around Moresnet, and walk up fomr that side and down again. Then <br/>
you can go under and over the border!<br/>
<br/>
BW<br/>
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