Ice Cream – May 13, 2023

  • Møn: Day 2
  • Distance: 13.9 miles / Total 24.6 miles / 22.4 km
  • Time: 6 hours 40 minutes
  • Ascent: 613’ Decent: 701’
  • Weather: 56 degrees / sunny

First you pick a cow. Than her milk is processed into your favorite ice cream flavor. Can’t pick one flavor? Then you better order double scoops of ice cream like I did…pistachios and coffee.

Pick one…
Newborn calf.
Her milk became my ice cream.
Flavors galore

What Next? May 13, 2023

  • Møn: Day 2
  • Distance: 13.9 miles / Total 24.6 miles / 22.4 km
  • Time: 6 hours 40 minutes
  • Ascent: 613’ Decent: 701’
  • Weather: 56 degrees / sunny

Emerging from the forest is act three with farm land and act four the Baltic Sea. Such diverse landscape within a two hour walk.

Linda, photography by Anna.
Making my way to sea level.
On the beach, the sandy beach.
The swain landed with an unexpected loud thump.

Act to Follow Chalk Cliffs – May 13, 2023

  • Møn: Day 2
  • Distance: 13.9 miles / Total 24.6 miles / 22.4 km
  • Time: 6 hours 40 minutes
  • Ascent: 613’ Decent: 701’
  • Weather: 56 degrees / sunny

With my back to the Chalk Cliffs I enter the forest, act two. Two faces of Mother Nature cohabiting side-by-side.

Anna in the forest.
Forest Orchid
Wild variety of Primrose.
More familiar variety of Primrose

Ice Age – May 12, 2023

  • Møn Camino: Day 1
  • Distance: 10.7 miles / Total 10.7 miles / 17.2 km
  • Time: 8 hours 30
  • Ascent: 1,757’ Decent: 1,757’
  • Weather: 53 degrees / sunny

The chalk cliffs are made from the remains of shells of microscopic creatures which lived on the seabed millions of years ago. As Ice Age glaciers moved, the seabed was compacted and forced upward producing chalk cliffs.

Møns Klint
Møns Klint
Møns Klint
Linda taken by Anna

Where in the World

  • Time: 31 hours from my front door
  • Møn: Distance: 4,100 mile…as the bird flies…from Charlottesville
  • Ascent: 1,630’ Decent: 796’
  • Weather: 60 degrees overcast, misting

Møn is a 237 square mile island located 75 miles south of Copenhagen. Møn is UNESCO site featuring spectacular Ice Age glacier landscape. All this to be explored by me!

Northeast Europe
Møn circled in red.
Møn is in the Baltic Sea.