16 June 2008

History and Maps


What you are seeing in this image is a map made in 1915 by the Austo Hungarian Empire (rulers of this area back then).
We added with yellow the GPS tracks we made during the scouting. The distance between villages is 2-3 km.
The details are amazing, this are very old and narrow roads on top of the hills. We are using them for the Extreme tracks on Thursday and Friday. On many of them nobody passed for more than 50 years! And they are made who knows when, hundred of years ago.
On Monday the extreme will even go on a track made 2000 years ago during the occupation by the Roman Empire! And after a few hundred meters they will enter a tunnel 840m long, made in 1902 for an industrial railway and deserted now!



1 comment:

RP said...

I am so sorry that we can not come this year! It seems that it will be even better than last year..... if possible...

We will surely be back next year and I will keep an eye on this years event!

Good luck tot the participants and organisers, have all the fun in the world!

Remco-Peter van der Waarden (RP)