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RumiDude Marmota olympus
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Thu Feb 27, 2020 12:48 pm
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Walking (hiking, sauntering, or whatever you wish to call it) is a great opportunity to think. Many people, including myself, often use a walk to help clear rtheir mind and think things over.
Well, here is a collection of essays and exerts on the subject of walking. Maybe if you aren't too weight conscious you might even take it with you on a backpacking trip to read in the tent at night. I came across this at Adventure Journal.
Anyway, got any similar books on walking to recommend? Let us all know.
Rumi <~~~~~~slow reader
"This is my Indian summer ... I'm far more dangerous now, because I don't care at all."
"This is my Indian summer ... I'm far more dangerous now, because I don't care at all."
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Schroder Member
Joined: 26 Oct 2007 Posts: 6696 | TRs | Pics Location: on the beach |
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Thu Feb 27, 2020 1:37 pm
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Chief Joseph Member
Joined: 10 Nov 2007 Posts: 7677 | TRs | Pics Location: Verlot-Priest Lake |
I like to walk, especially after a meal. I get stomach gas from time to time, and walking helps alleviate it.
Go placidly amid the noise and waste, and remember what comfort there may be in owning a piece thereof.
Go placidly amid the noise and waste, and remember what comfort there may be in owning a piece thereof.
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neek Member
Joined: 12 Sep 2011 Posts: 2329 | TRs | Pics Location: Seattle, WA |
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Thu Feb 27, 2020 2:17 pm
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Sometimes I walks and thinks,
And sometimes I just walks.
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Songs2 Member
Joined: 21 Mar 2016 Posts: 200 | TRs | Pics
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Thu Feb 27, 2020 2:25 pm
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RumiDude,
Beneath My Feet is mostly strolls in Britain?
In any event, I like to re-read the trails guide, or maybe leaf more intentionally through a small tracking guide. (I hike solo a lot, and am mildly interested in what is watching my progress.)
For small snippets of travel, Roger Deakin's Waterlog is an interesting account of the author's swimming from south of England to north. It wasn't an endurance swim but was connected. At one point he had to return home to clean the frogs out of the moat around his abode. There'll always be an England. (My reading rate was about one chapter, or episode, per 12-minute train ride.)
He also wrote Wildwood: A Journey through Trees. I'll quote a bit of the Amazon description:
Quote: | The reader accompanies Deakin through the woods of Britain, Europe, Kazakhstan, and Australia in search of what lies behind man's profound and enduring connection with trees. Deakin lives in forest shacks, goes "coppicing" in Suffolk, swims beneath the walnut trees of the Haut-Languedoc, and hunts bushplums with Aboriginal women in the outback |
Both are small-sized.
Rebecca Solnit is a great essay writer, often using nature as a hinge to expand on a larger theme.
Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscape for Politics and River of Dreams: Edward Muybridge and the Technological Wild West are among my favorites.
I didn't make it through Wanderlust: A History of Walking, but others may like it.
Her books are not quite small enough to be small enough for backpacking, but would fit well in a day pack.
Stanley Cavell, The Senses of Walden, is an extraordinary (and small!) book on that classic by a musician turned philosopher.
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RumiDude Marmota olympus
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Sun Mar 01, 2020 10:15 am
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"This is my Indian summer ... I'm far more dangerous now, because I don't care at all."
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Backpacker Joe Blind Hiker
Joined: 16 Dec 2001 Posts: 23956 | TRs | Pics Location: Cle Elum |
The one time I was lucky enough to get out on a trip with Borank, I remember him saying, "Its just walking" while I was straining to keep up with him.
"If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide."
— Abraham Lincoln
"If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide."
— Abraham Lincoln
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