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Looking forward again to everyone's pictures and stories about their local walks.

Keep up the good work! :)
Our weekly walk from Empoli, on the Arno River in Tuscany, up the hills to Monterappoli. Stop for lunch fixings at the local grocer, have a picnic, and stop for a coffee on the way back. C3F4DE76-A904-46DA-933A-5360018250D6.jpeg
 
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Today I walked in the Solling Hills, a mountain range of the Weser-river-mountains. 8km, 220m elevation, 1:47h.

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As I strolled back to my parking-lot through the village I found a nice little street:
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Hope you enjoy my photos.
 
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Crunches through autumn leaves on footpaths into the city to an orchestra performance. Light breeze, warmth still in the sun, glorious colours, divine music, a little sketching, a little knitting., a delicious ham sandwich....the simple pleasures of life.
 
On April 25th I walked part of the "Lieserpfad" between Daun and Manderscheid with my italian pilgrim friends Marzio and Adele. We could have continued the very next day, but we decided to visit Trier (tomb of St. Matthew, also on the Camino) by car and also made a stop at Klausen, on the Mosel-Camino. There was a sign, stating that it is 2.350 km to Santiago. This means it is 2.400 km from my home. So I know what to do when I am retired or on a sabbatical!
 
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A lovely 3 hour walk this morning to one of our local parks....Weald country park.
Once used for hunting around 1063 by the Abbots of Walrham
Even some Iron Age remains from 1st century BC
We wanted to see the bluebells which cover a large part of the forest there...almost looked surreal at times...like a mist in the distance
An amazing show of wild flowers...and the beautiful smelling walkway with wild honeysuckle
A few large lakes and small ponds.....bluebell pond and tea cup pond!
Halfway round about a hundred young deer crossed our path...an amazing spectacle running and jumping
On the way back, we got lost as usual and went in circles a few times.A nice kind of lost though!!
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I don't believe my step counter. It says 12,638. Not that I want to have an argument with my phone... In short, yesterday I flew from Dublin to Glasgow, and this morning travelled by train to Edinburgh for a college reunion. 300 women, primary school teachers, all chattering and delighted to meet up together.
It was such a beautiful memory lane trip, 50 years since I used that route every week. The visual memory is etched in my mind. So often I sat on the steps in the hostel where we all stayed in what had been a Hydropathic Spa Hotel...and looked out at views like these. I took these in the airport while waiting for my flight back home. The second last one was taken overlooking Edinburgh towards the Forth and the sea, from the lecture hall in the futuristic new entrance to the Craiglockhart campus of Napier College. Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon were there when it was a War Hospital in the early part of C20th. The final photo is of the facade of the building, unchanged really from the front view.
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I’m visiting my parents in Belgium and we had a lovely 10km walk in the local countryside. I also tried my mum’s walking poles and I’m converted!5711257113
 
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Another local walk around the block before I head off to Irun for the Vasco Interior this Thursday.
Left knee was bothering me a bit this morning but was on it's best behaviour.
 

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Been in the Deister again, over the City of Barsinghausen, 8.8km in almost 2hrs.

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A Pond in the woods for Trouts
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Is this a sign?
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Half-Moon over the Deister
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Both carved figurines on the way middle in the woods

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A TV and Cellular-Booster-Tower on Top of the Deister

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A blooming stone-cherry-Tree
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In the Center you can see the Volkswagen Commercial-Transport-Facility and the Powerplant
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Another view of the Tower

Enjoy!

Buen Camino!
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On 1 May, walked with the Jacobus group about 17km from 1 Camino spot in Frankfurt (St. Leonhards, 1219) to a 2nd Camino stop in Frankfurt Höchst (St. Justinus, 850).
This is part of the Jakobsweg as the Camino is called in Germany. Both churches are very old and have always been stops for pilgrims.
Half of the group were deaf and communicated almost exclusively in sign language. Very interesting walk.

Photos are of the Jakobs Portal inside St. Leonhards, carved in 1219, and the exterior of the church. They found an altar on the original floor level while doing restoration and archeology work that also dates back to the 1200's, with many scallop shells behind it. st.leo best.JPG
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After finishing the Camino de Madrid in mid-April, I’ve been in Australia for the past few weeks. Last week I spent a few days in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney, bushwalking to my heart’s content. I did 28km one day around Wentworth Falls and Blackheath - not a bad camino stage!

The weather was fantastic, making photography a joy. A few favourites from the trails:

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View from Fletcher’s Lookout, near Wentworth Falls

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A tiny but picturesque cascade on the Charles Darwin Trail near Wentworth Falls

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The sun’s early morning rays pierce the Grose Valley and leave Pulpit Rock and other mountains in a misty silhouette, as seen from the Govett’s Leap Descent trail

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Darkness covers the Jamison Valley as the last light of the day hits the Three Sisters and turns them gold
 
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There IS a bus, but @SYates and I got impatient.
We had a sentimental memory of our walk out of A Coruña last year at the nearby roundabout over the freeway :eek:, but all was well in the end.
And caught the bus back. Quite the shopping experience.
Shopping!!
So you bought the car then??!!
Or the store?!
 
I tried out this new (to me) tracking device "Relive" on a nice 11km stroll from and to my front door, past loads of glorious flowering hawthorn, bluebells and some early rowan. 2km of tarmac, then open fell, up to the top, back down beside the Gelt river. An almost perfect spring day up here, visibility c60km.

 
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I'm currently busy doing little local pilgrimages. I became interested in some of the obscure old places of pilgrimage recently so I've been doing walks to places like Congresbury (named after Saint Congar), the old church of St Nicholas at Uphill, and Bleadon church on the Mendips.
 
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I spent this past week in Cuba. Mostly walking the streets of Havana and along the Prado and the 8 km stretch of the Malecon at sunset. A day walking and visiting new family in Guanajay. A truly amazing week of adventure and such memorable experiences. It was HOT!!! Good conditioning for my upcoming camino!

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I went to pick up a book (last month in May) and took some pictures with my phone. I've been a long time lurker on this venerable thread and it's nice to join in a bit.

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Been on little vacation between Wednesday and Sunday (Holidays in Germany) in the Thuringian Forest:

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Oberweissbacher Bergbahn (cable car)
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A Camino in Thuringia?
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View from Moutain Station
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The view towards the "Thuringian Schiefergebirge" (Slate Moutains)
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deep in the woods (newly gravelled and marked)
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view from top of the hill
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Lupins
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Observation tower on the "Meuselbacher Kuppe", ~770m
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back to the village of Cursdorf

12km of the Panoramic View Route of the "Schwarzatal" (Valley of the most gold-rich River in Germany) walked in 2:42h.

27 days left until my Camino!
 
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You probably can recognise the garden
Unmistakable...a precious place. I hope the injection was not a trial, and that you are at the top of the curve as far az benefit is concerned!

Love the swan, @kirkie !
No walking for me...the days are full. Monday, though!
 
I finally had time today an tomorrow to stretch my legs a bit. But it's hot...
So I walked a late afternoon loop around Monte Santo, to say hello to all the blooming chestnut trees. The are not ancient ones, as in Spain...but the fragrance is just as sweet!
 

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I have a lot of catching up to do on this thread 😎 Might take me a while 🙂
My walk today in Kent (Shoreham/North Down’s way), 12 very undulating miles 😁
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St James' Way - Self-guided 4-7 day Walking Packages, Reading to Southampton, 110 kms
I hike the areas surrounding Tucson, Arizona, USA. Yesterday I explored Mint Spring. In 2003 the area burned down in a devastating fire that burned out of control. It is now starting to get covered in ferns, mint, Columbine and penstemon flowers, and young trees.
 

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A walk up up up to a lake and peat bog in the Apennines. A thunderstorm was chasing us but we were lucky...not one drop of rain!
 

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A selection of Camino Jewellery
Another local artwork in my neighbourhood.
Where the medieval gallow once was. Now there is a replica.

A floating chapel by artist Frits Jeuris. Took pics from every angle possible.
Absolutely stunning. And peaceful.
Then a Chardonnay from a local farmer.
 

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This was my walk yesterday evening: the North Downs (above Kemsing)
 

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The bookmarket ( 1,8 km. books )in the Historic towncentre off Dordrecht.
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One off the many harbours with the Big Church at the end.
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The old st.Jacobs chapel build in the year 1900 as a part off the Catholic Hospital .
Now in use as a home. In winter time the temperature inside is only 11 / 12°Celcius.
 
11k. walk with a friend in the neighbouring province of Vlaams-Brabant. Felt much warmer than the actual 21 Celsius.
Everything was extremely dry after the last heatwave.
 

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The 2024 Camino guides will be coming out little by little. Here is a collection of the ones that are out so far.
Thank you, Purky! Quite the tech artist! I am soon going to switch everything off, and head out the door to the airport... Zabaldika, here I come! I doubt, though with your post one can never tell, I will see any elephants there...
 
I feel like I invented a new pilgrimage this week: the Camino de Moscow. I walked 25km around the city on Monday and 28km on Tuesday, as the weather was great both days.

I must have walked through Red Square 15+ times in the five days we were there, and this is my favourite photo of it: afternoon storm light hits the towers and onion domes of the wacky and wonderful St. Basil’s Cathedral.

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Thank you, Purky! Quite the tech artist! I am soon going to switch everything off, and head out the door to the airport... Zabaldika, here I come! I doubt, though with your post one can never tell, I will see any elephants there...
My best wishes to the Sisters .
 
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A beautiful afternoon. A big change for me, the storms of a couple of years ago loosened the wall, and with trying to clean the ivy, there was such a collapse that a huge work of restoration was needed. Cut stone from 12th century! The trees have been growing, so it is almost impossible now to view the pilgrims circling from Lower Zabaldika towards the rest area. Here are some photos (very slow to upload, so am just posting 3)

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Yesterday, about 4 kms along the coast along Georgia Strait, so close that there was a constant tang and swish of the sea...but in forest dense enough that I only saw it once.
 

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The one from Galicia (the round) and the one from Castilla & Leon. Individually numbered and made by the same people that make the ones you see on your walk.
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Yesterday, about 4 kms along the coast along Georgia Strait, so close that there was a constant tang and swish of the sea...but in forest dense enough that I only saw it once.
Beautiful! Waving at you across the Straight! Hope you're having lovely days on Quadra. I'm heading to Denman Island in a couple of days. Looking forward to those mossy forest walks!
 
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Visiting a Camino friend in Leiden/ the Netherlands.
We walked in the dunes and at the seaside.
Gorgeous view, so much nicer than the tall impersonal brick buildings at our Belgian seaside.
 

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My first walk after the Camino. I've been living in Ireland for so long and it's the first time I got to do it. Eleven kilometres walk, 490m elevation. Glendalough, Co Wicklow, Ireland
 
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We had nice walks around Almen , Zutphen and Deventer.
 

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Finally (and for a month or so) on 'home turf.'
So this finally counts as 'local!'
A bit shy of 6 and a half kms - my long-ago old running route, up into the National Park to Kilauea Iki Overlook onto the Crater Rim Trail and back. The tree ferns and forest were glorious.
 

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Finally (and for a month or so) on 'home turf.'
So this finally counts as 'local!'
A bit shy of 6 and a half kms - my long-ago old running route, up into the National Park to Kilauea Iki Overlook onto the Crater Rim Trail and back. The tree ferns and forest were glorious.
Oh my!! So beautiful!!
 
The 2024 Camino guides will be coming out little by little. Here is a collection of the ones that are out so far.
The 2024 Camino guides will be coming out little by little. Here is a collection of the ones that are out so far.
Hilo, my home town. Famous for not much. Well, a huge (and wonderful) international hula festval
and tsunamis
Thanks to the tsunami and their terrible damage, the whole bayfront is now an enormous park with huge beautiful monkey pod trees. Which I walked under going and coming from an appointment.

And this is for you @Jeff Crawley: Only in Hawaii - ukuleles as decoration in the opthamologist's office. There is a shop in town with hundreds of them.
 

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Out and about this morning, poor photo because of the angle of the sun, but it marks a bridge near me, named in honour of Count John Mc Cormack. Soon after, I came upon a tree festooned with bunches of bright red berries. Unless old folk tales have changed, this might be a harbinger of trying times in winter... then I carried on to do my chores: talk to a machine in the bank, talk to a lovely young woman in the fish shop, make friends with the butcher who had a special offer which is now in the freezer, visit a charity shop where the young man was encouraging everyone to buy 5 articles of clothing for €10. I could not oblige.I bought a small coin purse to donate something, and then he wanted to know where I was from. He had recognised my accent, being himself from the true capital of my country of origin. Only kidding, Glasgow is not the true capital, just the capital waiting in the wings.
10.2km later, here I am sitting down for a few minutes before I attack the final page of the bank statements for this financial year - it ends 31st August for me. so, that is my local story for today. Happy Tuesday. Screenshot 2019-08-23 at 12.58.20.png

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In this part of the world one can never pronounce on whether summer is here or not, but for the moment, we have something resembling summer weather. On my walk up town to buy some provisions in case winter should descend overnight, I took a great number of photos. This is my normal route uptown, along by the river. Today I was struck, looking at the first of the financial offices that caught my eye, alongside an old British former hotel that will soon be part of a mixed use dwelling/commercial/retail development... and recalled my experience recently on the Ingles and afterwards, in the area known as Ribeira Sacra. There, I was impressed by the witness of the many ermitas to the world as it was when they were built. I thought of the witness given by the buildings, bridges, street furniture we have today. Will they last? What will they speak of? There are photos of financial house buildings, bridges (one from ancient days when a toll was charged to cross the river), one by a famous architect from Valencia, a commemoration of World Poverty Day, a set of Famine Statues, a stand of bicycles with their subliminal - or not! - message... among others. My walk took me longer than usual!
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In this part of the world one can never pronounce on whether summer is here or not, but for the moment, we have something resembling summer weather. On my walk up town to buy some provisions in case winter should descend overnight, I took a great number of photos. This is my normal route uptown, along by the river. Today I was struck, looking at the first of the financial offices that caught my eye, alongside an old British former hotel that will soon be part of a mixed use dwelling/commercial/retail development... and recalled my experience recently on the Ingles and afterwards, in the area known as Ribeira Sacra. There, I was impressed by the witness of the many ermitas to the world as it was when they were built. I thought of the witness given by the buildings, bridges, street furniture we have today. Will they last? What will they speak of? There are photos of financial house buildings, bridges (one from ancient days when a toll was charged to cross the river), one by a famous architect from Valencia, a commemoration of World Poverty Day, a set of Famine Statues, a stand of bicycles with their subliminal - or not! - message... among others. My walk took me longer than usual!
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Lovely to see these photos @kirkie ! Memories of a wonderful afternoon and walk with you and @VNwalking in July! I have the same thoughts as I walk along the river front into my village. There have been dramatic changes in development in the last 20 years or so, rapid building up and around the few remaining "heritage" buildings. Thinking about the environment that they were built in and what would be a near unrecognizable landscape to them now.
 
A hot and sunny bank holiday weekend in the UK.
A short walk today on the Green Sand Way to Brockham and back home via the old coach road . Best discoveries were a little stall at a farm selling home grown vegetables and the re-opened Brockham Reading Room café.

Edit: Apologies, trying to locate pictures and add text on my phone is not one of my skills!
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On the spur of the moment, we decided to visit the Lake District in north west of England
This area is one of the most beautiful places in the world and we have visited here many times over the years
Our walk started at Stannah ...a little hamlet in the north of the area image.jpeg
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A steep ..very steep clime took us to sticks pass ..our intention being to walk the long ridge towards Grasmere image.jpegimage.jpeg
A lovely sunny day as we passed over Raise and another fell...then onto Helvellyn at just over 3000 ft. And looking down on red tarn image.jpegimage.jpeg
Then it was onto Dollywagon pike and down to Grisedale tarn on a steep path .
Then further down to Grasmere over a grassy fell with lots of ferns image.jpegimage.jpeg

It was a wonderful walk...about 8 miles...maybe 13 km...took us 7 hours !!
I do know one thing
This walk may just have extended our lives but it sure killed our knees!!
 
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On the spur of the moment, we decided to visit the Lake District in north west of England
This area is one of the most beautiful places in the world and we have visited here many times over the years
Our walk started at Stannah ...a little hamlet in the north of the area View attachment 64017
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A steep ..very steep clime took us to sticks pass ..our intention being to walk the long ridge towards Grasmere View attachment 64019View attachment 64020
A lovely sunny day as we passed over Raise and another fell...then onto Helvellyn at just over 3000 ft. And looking down on red tarn View attachment 64021View attachment 64022
Then it was onto Dollywagon pike and down to Grisedale tarn on a steep path .
Then further down to Grasmere over a grassy fell with lots of ferns View attachment 64023View attachment 64024

It was a wonderful walk...about 8 miles...maybe 13 km...took us 7 hours !!
I do know one thing
This walk may just have extend our lifes but it sure killed our knees!!
I see what you mean! Such heights, Annette. I bet you are chuffed! And rightly so, it really lifts the spirit to survey all that grandeur.
 
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On the spur of the moment, we decided to visit the Lake District in north west of England
This area is one of the most beautiful places in the world and we have visited here many times over the years
Our walk started at Stannah ...a little hamlet in the north of the area View attachment 64017
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A steep ..very steep clime took us to sticks pass ..our intention being to walk the long ridge towards Grasmere View attachment 64019View attachment 64020
A lovely sunny day as we passed over Raise and another fell...then onto Helvellyn at just over 3000 ft. And looking down on red tarn View attachment 64021View attachment 64022
Then it was onto Dollywagon pike and down to Grisedale tarn on a steep path .
Then further down to Grasmere over a grassy fell with lots of ferns View attachment 64023View attachment 64024
It was a wonderful walk...about 8 miles...maybe 13 km...took us 7 hours !!
I do know one thing
This walk may just have extend our lifes but it sure killed our knees!!
Brave Annette , very brave. I hope your knees x4 are recovering!
 
This little hike was done a few days ago but I was too exhausted to write about it!!
Must have had a bit of a brainstorm when we decided to do this one though...but how could we not as it's the highest mountain in England at 3200 ft approx and here we were in the Lake District.

Started off in good weather with just a little bit of mist on the top.
Lovely scenery over little bridges and rugged paths
The mist rose and fell as we walked and it was up all the way

A bit of scrambling at times too ...would have been much easier if my legs were a bit longer...scrambling upwards seems to me to be easier than going downwards ...I think!

It was at this stage that I wondered if we should just stick to Camino walking!
Got to the top and what could we see....nothing except mist!!
Well at least we'd reached the top although it did take a tad longer than 10 years previously

Headed down the other side and the mist lifted...scenery was stupendous but the boulders and ankle twister rocks did slow us down a bit........ok then...a lot!

A long winding path took us down over little lakes and waterfalls
Now the weather was sunny and warm
We met people heading up to Sprinkling tarn to do some wild camping

One couple had a beautiful cat sitting regally on top of his owners rucksack image.jpegimage.jpeg

This cat was certainly enjoying himself and is apparently a wild camping veteran!
To be truthful, we were glad to have made it down in one piece .
Took us nearly 9 hours and the whole circuit approx 13 km

Our thoughts? .....tomorrow we're going to sit on a bus!!!image.jpegimage.jpegimage.jpegimage.jpegimage.jpegimage.jpegimage.jpegimage.png
 
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The one from Galicia (the round) and the one from Castilla & Leon. Individually numbered and made by the same people that make the ones you see on your walk.
In Australia it’s Wattle Day today, the first day of spring. The Golden Wattle is our national floral emblem.
Our local bushwalking club on the outer South East side of Melbourne had a leisurely walk in a state park.
The wattle, heath, and tiny native orchids are just starting to poke their glorious little heads up.
Nature in all its glory.

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The other day I had a day with three walks: across town to a park after an appointment, later in the national park with a friend, and then in the evening in the neighborhood with a friend's dog.
All good!
The mountains in the distance in the first photo are deceiving: they are seriously big, roughly 4200m.
 

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The other day I had a day with three walks: across town to a park after an appointment, later in the national park with a friend, and then in the evening in the neighborhood with a friend's dog.
All good!
The mountains in the distance in the first photo are deceiving: they are seriously big, roughly 4200m.
The first one is such a fine example of dappled...
 
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This is a lovely thread, interesting too see the variety of walks in preparation for the main event. At the beginning of the year I spent a month walking in Brazil, Camino da Fe. On my return had no intention of walking anywhere else this year until last month received the call to return so thought better repair trusty merrells, replace hiking socks, purchase new 'ice-breaker' jersey and took a little wander over the Wicklow hills, 32 of us spent the weekend walking 26km on St Kevin's way, a magical place and my purpose was too find a stone to take on my Francè but instead a button found me 🤠
 

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