Hiiumaa

This hike was done on a wonderful day in July 2007, with a group of friends. My father had said a long time ago that when he was a young boy, the trail through Lodju forest in Kärdla extended until the other side of Hiiumaa through two large bogs (Määvli and Pihla). I am not sure if it really was so, but I knew the trail no longer existed and the middle of Hiiumaa was a 20-kilometre long territory without roads or houses. There is a network of narrow rides, which has not been maintained for decades; these are mostly walkable, but in some places they are barely visible. We tried to go along rides most of the way, but obviously still had to cross bogs and some stretches of forest that was more difficult to go through. If you click the map on the left, you will see our route in Google Maps. The KML file with waypoints is here.

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