Practical route reviews, access guidance, gear and training for your next outing. Human-reviewed, with sources you can check.
Code yellow, orange or red: what does it mean for your run, hike or ride? Here are the thresholds Belgium's Royal Meteorological Institute (RMI) uses for wind, rain, thunderstorms, snow and fog, why the forest is the most dangerous place in a storm, how to decide on the day, and when to turn back or call 112.
Cycling gives you endurance training without the repeated landings of running. Here's how to combine both sports, choose a suitable ride and keep room for what you want to practise on the trails. With an example workout to start from.
Gravel running is running on forest tracks, gravel paths and country lanes: an accessible in-between step between road and trail. What the name means, how it differs from road running and trail, what gravel shoes do differently, whether you really need them and how to run a first loop in Belgium.
Luxembourg has national cycle routes, local links and separate MTB courses. Using PC15 along the Alzette and the Berdorf–Beaufort MTB course, you see which route suits which bike, where your own additions need extra checking and how to check roadworks and diversions before you leave.
A path on your map or in your app isn't permission to follow it. Here's how to read map lines, hunting notices in Wallonia, GIPOD notices in Flanders and climbing figures on route pages, and how to turn them into a short, useful check before you leave.
After a wet week your gravel ride can simply go ahead, as long as you don't need the doubtful stretch to get home. Here you read what a RAVeL description does and doesn't say, check access per region and draw a main ride with a decision point before the uncertain passage.
Yes, on the roads and paths open to the public, unless a closure or sign on the spot says otherwise. Here is how to check announced hunting days in advance, read the signs on the day itself and know when it is better to turn back.