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Where do ( did ) you walk ( locally ) in 2022?

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I just started training and will continue to do so until I leave the area for my first attempt of the French route of the Camino francès from the Toulouse area to Col de Somport via Oloron Sainte-Marie.
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And what a nice region for your training with Boulaer and Auch!
The Abbaye in Boulaer is quite special.
Looking forward to your pictures if you have them.
 
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Back to my youth, back to The Hague. A nice walk along beautiful memories made with my Grandfather.

The Christmas tree in front off the Royal Palace "Noordeinde "

The turret of the Prime Minister.

De Passage is the oldest covered shopping center in the Netherlands.
It's from 1885.
 
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I will try to find some good pictures from here focused on the Pyrénées. Never thought I would get to know and love this area. Some places remind me of the Appalachian Mountains in the US..others of Vermont and of course with the rolling hills, of Tuscany in Italy.
 
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Dordrecht? Great-grandparents were from there!
 
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Beautiful!
 
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Our first storm 30 cm + by the end of it. My walk tonight.
 

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Did a short walk on the lake at our cabin today. When you forgot to bring your skis then frozen snowmobile tracks can be of great help Mild -15°C (5 F) today, short days that far north: only 2 hours of sunlight per day.
This is sort of wilderness. Just one dead end private road which ends here and then hundreds of miles with no infrastructure whatsoever, just some tiny camps of the indigenous Sami reindeer herders.
 

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Interesting looking at all these beautiful moody foggy, frosty, snowy photos with Ivar's animated snow fall
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Night was falling, and still there was light enough to walk in the long Northern twilight. Cold, windy, beautiful. As we came back, there were big skeins of geese coming to a lake nearby where there was open water, calling to each other in loud companionable voices. They were barely visible but impossible to ignore.
 
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8 Celsius on Christmas eve. Gorgeous sky.
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Same! I walked a bit shy of 6km, a loop from Jacobskerk in Roderwolde, near Groningen, with part of the loop being along the Peterpad. A church has been here since the 1100s, but this one is a 19th C remodelling. There's a stamp in the church.
Happy Christmas everyone!




 
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Jupiter in conjunction with the full moon before Midnight Mass after finishing the Vía de la Plata/Camino Sanabrés, 24 December, 2012.



Edit: whoops, sorry, this was supposed to be in the "on the Camino one day at a time" thread, apologies. Happy Christmas anyway.
 
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Groningen? My great grandparents were from there!
 
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Have you ever had doubts about being able to walk the total length from the French boarder to Santiago? Today was one of those hikes when doubts were rampant... I know it's important to be physically in shape and the mental is equally important..(what if that one thing stops me from getting on the Camino and walking it?)
 
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I often have these doubts after local walks. I assume it's the repetition and stress of routine daily life. Then I'm constantly amazed at the energy I have and distances I cover on the Camino (may it continue!).
 
Boxing Day. A day off and a chance for a good long walk without any Christmas or work commitments! Heavy rain throughout the night washed away almost all of the snow from our recent storms, leaving huge puddles and mud. Still, it was beautiful out there, overcast and drizzly but very quiet. Cool but without the freezing temps of the last week.
 
I never had doubts ever regarding finishing as I know one can achieve much more than it feels like in the beginning. But then again this might not be too representative as I used to be an experienced mountain/wilderness hiker.
I do sometimes have doubts I might not achieve my goals – I always set goals such as miles per day or reaching a certain place in a certain number of days, I love these minor challenges and it happens automatically inside my brain I cannot stop it.
Now, after Covid and in the middle of a frustrating and lengthy aftermath, I do fear there will be more suffering and pain and that I might be even weaker than I planned. But still, failure is nothing I mentally consider. It does not mean it cannot go wrong of course. I could get sick, I could get injured. But those are exceptions I cannot predict hence they are irrelevant for me.

I guess your doubts are mainly mentally. My brain works along the lines of Yoda's saying "Do. Or do not. There is no try." But once in that mindset there is the danger to overdo. Forcing yourself into too much during the first week or weeks might result in injury and destroy the remaining weeks. So I would extend to:
"Do. Or do not. There is no try. But do wisely."
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Keep in mind, after a local walk that not went so well, that even when out there on the Camino there will be bad days and good days and you might be a better walker in the second half than you were in the first. The body adapts and changes when you hike long distance. If you do not overdo it in the beginning, you might feel stronger later on the way.
 
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To all contributors here, oldies and new ones : thank you for all the wonderful pictures you posted in 2022.
Pictures that always speak louder than words.

I love being able to see glimpses of your local walks around the globe.

A big thank you especially for posting thumbnails which makes it easier for those with slower internetconnections viewing the content.

This thread has been running for some years and if ok for the mods I will ask to close this one end of the year and I will start a new one for 2023.
 
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Yesterday we had a planned dim sum brunch (think Chinese tapas). Ahead of time I thought about where we could go walking afterwards and came up with the brilliant idea of exploring the nearby Mt. Aurburn Cemetery, a place I've wanted to go to for at least 40 years. I'm a fan of old New England graveyards (a pair of 9th great grandparents are buried nearby in my town and her mother is buried in the next town over). Mt. Auburn though is the first of the garden style cemeteries in the US and is like an arboretum (we saw a grove of dawn redwoods there).

We parked behind a chapel with a hidden modern touch.


A closeup of one of the monuments seen above showing one reason bird watchers like the place.


Near the front of the chapel is a memorial to fallen Civil War Union soldiers. The inscription is in Latin on the other side.


A general view.


The walk was super.
 
I hiked up Black Mountain in Canberra, Australia yesterday and loved it. There are some very steep sections depending on which direction you come from. All up, about a 10km loop from my car to the tower at the summit, around the mountain and back down again to the car. Here is a shot of the tower, it’s closed down currently and the National Capital Authority is asking for tenders for ideas for its use.
 
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We have put a team together to do the 50klm Oxfam Trail Walk and so I have started my training. This is a Saturday morning short training hike with my son and grandkids (trying to get them interested).

Looking back along the Kaipatiki Coastal Trail.

Looking forward

A contemplative tramper

The bridges are over the swampy bits

New trail next week
 
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