In the east of Utrecht lies the Utrecht Hill Ridge ( Dutch : Utrechtse Heuvelrug ), a chain of hills left as lateral moraine by tongues of glacial ice after the Saline glaciation that preceded the heath has been planted with pine plantations.
22.
It is about 400 metres wide at this point and a high and steep lateral moraine towers over it on the left-hand ( northern ) side, across which a climbing path runs from the " Pr?de Madame Carle ", above the village of Ailefroide.
