Im Rahmen des Interreg V - Projekts « RANDO-M » entsteht in Ostbelgien ein neuer Wanderweg. Die Venntrilogie ist ein Fernwanderweg, der die schönsten Landschaften unserer Region in sechs Etappen miteinander verbindet. Dieser Weg ist aus unserer tiefen und leidenschaftlichen Liebe zur Natur entstanden. Die Route führt Sie auf 109 km durch die drei unterschiedlichen Naturlandschaften des Venns.
Dans le cadre du projet Interreg V « RANDO-M », un nouveau sentier va voir le jour dans les Cantons de l’Est. La Venntrilogie est un sentier de randonnée de longue distance, reliant en six étapes certains des plus beaux paysages de notre région. Ce sentier est né de notre amour profond et fervent de la nature. Le chemin de randonnée vous mène sur 109 km à travers les trois paysages naturels distincts des Fagnes.
In het kader van het Interreg V-project "RANDO-M" ontstaat er in de Oostkantons een nieuwe wandelroute. De Venntrilogie is een langeafstandswandeling, die in zes etappes enkele van de mooiste landschappen van onze streek met elkaar verbindt. Het pad is ontstaan uit onze diepe en blijvende liefde voor de natuur. De route voert u over 109 km door drie verschillende natuurlandschappen van de Venen.
Thanks to the Interreg V project "RANDO-M", a new trail is being created in East Belgium. The Venntrilogie is a long-distance hiking trail, linking some of the most beautiful landscapes in our region in six stages. The trail was born out of our deep and abiding love of nature. The trail leads you over 109 km through the three distinct natural landscapes of the Fens.
https://www.ostbelgien.eu/de/wandern/venntrilogie
Can be run from both directions.
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This route came on my radar through many ways,folders,magazines,friends of friends who walked this in 3 or 4 days and when we where doing the Stauseesteig last summer. It got the label of most beautiful trail of the BeNeLux. Since the route's end or start was close to my friends bnb in gemmenich and there was already an FKT on the route from Butgenbach to Vaals, we decided to do it the way around(funny enough we (I) didnt't know that it doesn't matter which direction you run a route, only the fastest one counts as an official FKT :o)Â
Anyway we started in Vaals and went all the way to Butgenbach on the longest,darkest and most miserable night of 2024.
We started smoothly and dry for the first 2 hours but the rain and later the snow kicked in. Decent clothing on, so no worries here. We know this part very well and the problems with the uphills is that they are too soft to walk but then too long and a bit to steep to run, so speedhike it was. We passed a thousand little ports (stegelkes) to keep the kettle in or out but often they were of no use :o)
The plan was that in Eupen at the trainstation(where we had our car to re-supply to make it a self-supported one) Ed would join us but by that time MIchel got injured and so they just switched places, while Ed joining us on the track, Michel drove the car 20K further to re-supply again
From Eupen to Malmedy there was so much water on the track that we waded for hours through creeks,mud and bogs...the better kind of misery! On the wooden paths on the Fenns there was a light layer of frost and hard frozen ice so they all were slipppery like hell.
Because of the bad weather and the very bad track we didn't eat nor drank enough, just before Malmedy this caused  some problems with me almost fainting but the bakery with good pancakes and some lukewarm cappucino got me started again.
After Malmedy the route became runnable again but the ascents kept on coming despite our watches telling us differently.
After almost 22hours we finally arived at the last/first marker in Butgenbach.
It was a nice route to run but maybe it was not a good idea (but for some of us as a training it was)to do this on the longest night where wind,rain,snow and coldness came on our path, nevertheless we had good fun and set a very easy to beat non-excisting,non-counting- FKT in this direction !
Thanks for the FKT-team to answer our questions,to read through our story! Keep up the good work guys!
Dimi,Michel, Ed and Andy
The route has considerably more vertical meters than indicated. From south to north it is 2,300 m up and 2,500 m down.
Unsupported water is only available along the route in Raeren at the cemetery.
Holger