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A classic application of the experimental method:
Hypothesis
Theory
Perform experiment to test hypothesis/theory
Replication of experiment by an independent second researcher
Analysis of findings, and conclusion
Publish the new knowledge
Never say never! Walking from the Liola Sanctuary back onto the Norte, someone had installed a barbed wire fence directly across the marked GR path. Very obvious where the path was, but because so few actually walk that route, someone must have...
I've had to climb a few fences, walls and gates over the years, in the course of my caminos. The most memorable one was a chained pair of gates a couple of days before Cuenca on the Lana in 2019. It had sinister looking sign warning of being...
That was the point in this case. We climbed it twice - once in each direction - because it was the wrong path. However, occasionally gates are locked on lesser travelled routes when they should not be. One must make a decision on the spot on how...
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