Round Barger Trekgat: an Ice Age pingo

The route starts at Buitengoed Weerwille. From here you walk to the Barger Trekgat, a pingo ruin from the last Ice Age, 75,000-10,000 years ago. At that time, Scandinavian land ice reached as far as the Netherlands. The constant freezing and thawing created ice mounds or pingos. The term pingo comes from Inuktitut, the language of the Eskimos. Eventually the ice thawed and formed a small lake, which formed organic material that peat. Later, this peat was removed by humans to burn as peat: this made the round shape visible again. The name Berghuizen did not come out of the blue: it owes its name to the slopes in the landscape. A little further north you will discover another pingo: the Sultan Lake. At the end of the route you return to Buitengoed Weerwille. In the characteristic Drenthe landscape you can go to Buitengoed Weerwille for a cup of coffee or tea with homemade cakes, a lunch or snacks with a tasty drink. You then look out over the first Pitch & Putt course that was built in Ruinerwold in 1998. This 18-hole course is beautifully embedded in the landscape. Length differences and obstacles such as sand bunkers, trees and ponds make every hole challenging and unique.