For years, the artificial hill was closed to the public, except during the Ronde van Drenthe, when the women’s and men’s professional pelotons raced over it
Over the top, they laid local stones to form a 150-metre sector of cobbles on a 15% pitch. They built a mountain-bike track and an asphalt circuit that curls up, down, and around the garbage-filled hill. So, in 2018, the local government decided to renovate the VAM-hill and turn it into the Col du VAM for cyclists. They could rattle through the forest over the farmers’ cobbles-which aren’t really cobbles at all, but un-hewn rocks-and push against the wind out in the open fields, but there were no real hills around where they could test their strength. For years, the artificial hill was closed to the public, except during the Ronde van Drenthe, when the women’s and men’s professional pelotons raced over it. The VAM’s dump reached a height of 56 metres, before the authorities decided to bury it in earth and grass and build a small road over it for their vehicles. It was piled up in a spot just north of Hoogeveen. Garbage from the rest of the Netherlands was being sent to Drenthe by the Vuil Afvoer Maatschappij (Garbage Disposal Company) as well. Their ‘hunebedden’ are quite like France’s dolmens.īy the early 20th century, much of the province’s rolling wilderness was being turned into agricultural land, and the rocks that emerged from the soil were being used to pave tracks for the farmers’ tractors.
Ga toch fietsen!įive-thousand years ago, Drenthe’s inhabitants built megaliths in the forest to house the remains of their ancestors and host rituals. Soigneur and Komoot present a collection of Iconic Dutch Rides, from a friendly loop to a hard day in the saddle.
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