Today I took Raika hiking in the Glindower Alpen.
Some information on the area:
The Glindow Alps are located in the area of the Central Brandenburg Plates and Lowlands and extend between the villages of Petzow and Glindow in the district of Potsdam-Mittelmark over an area of about 120 hectares.
In a very confined space, centuries of clay mining created a special relief with a great variety of locations, including protected cool-wet gorges, hills and small bodies of water.
The slopes of these ravines are covered by mesophilic mixed forests of sycamore and Norway maple, hornbeam, littleleaf linden, ash, copper beech and black locust.
The forests are little or not influenced by forestry. Dead wood is not cleared. The trees are overgrown by mosses and lichens. Some forest edges are covered by dry grassland.
The small water bodies at the bottom of the gorges, which are up to forty meters deep, are covered by pond lentils.
This nature reserve is fundamentally different from the surrounding landscape. The latter is rather characterized by dry pine forests, large-scale orchards and other agriculturally used areas and a now dense settlement.
The Glindow Alps are a popular hiking and recreation area with signposted hiking trails and erected display boards explaining the flora and fauna.
The lake you see in the pictures is the Glindower Lake.
The leash you see on Raika is a towline.
