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

[Tulle]

Spring is in the airWonderful sunshine today. The snow is slowly disappearing as you can see in the second picture. A rather short walk in the neighborhood. There is still too much snow to walk on the paths in the forest.

 

[James van Hemert]

Mount Tuam on Salt Spring Island is visible from my home on Vancouver Island. For 12 years i have thought to myself "climb it". Today i did. I took Musgrave Road most of the way, a lightly traveled gravel road. 700 metres elevation and 20 km round trip from sea level beginning at a park neat Fulford. Good training for my first day ovet the Pyrenees.

 

[Former member 49149]

Today was so lovely!
Looking at the Meta building, it is not easy to see where reality is overtaken by reflection of reality...
A digital municipal noticeboard, followed by the Meta building, and a member of the heron colony. Last, a photo of a road name. Later I looked it up, as I had a vague idea about its history... and then I learned some more!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misery_Hill

 

[Peter Fransiscus]

Some photo's taken during the last few weeks,
New art in the hospital,


During different walks ,

 

[SabsP]

8.5 k.walk around the Hermitage of Vrijhern.
Meeting with four agressive dogs and unruly owners.
So I took a U -turn.
Rather shaken by the experience.
But a gorgeous walk nevertheless.

 

[J Willhaus]

Lots more snow this weekend so only walking in my own yard. Next weekend heading for Yellowstone National Park so hope to post some snowshoeing photos from there.

 

[wisepilgrim]

I’ll be making the usual rounds of the major caMinos but also some of the smaller and lesser known ones. So far this year I’ve had the pleasure of exploring some of the routes on the Galician coast.

I cannot say that they are at all sensible to walk, but they are pretty.

 

[Ekelund]

Spring is in the air! We have had sunny weather, cold but lovely. I went for a walk on nearby Stevns to see the cliffs of Stevns. The cliffs are 17 km long and up to 40 m in height and it is a pretty walk along the edge of the cliff.

 

[mspath]

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Lots more snow this weekend so o

J Willhaus,
I just read this and thought that you would enjoy knowing that Yellowstone is 150! Enjoy that snow.

 

[J Willhaus]

Yes, we love Yellowstone in winter when there are no crowds, but it is usually quite cold! We live close enough for visits once or twice a year. It will be good to walk around the thermal features that are open in winter. Only one road open in the North end of the park in winter so the little community of Cooke City can get groceries and other supplies.

 

[Flog]

Spring is in the air! We have had sunny weather, cold but lovely. I went for a walk on nearby Stevns to see the cliffs of Stevns. The cliffs are 17 km long and up to 40 m in height and it is a pretty walk along the edge of the cliff.

Jeg kan godt huske at gå på Stevns Klint, da jeg boede i København for 30 år siden!!

Just last week on a flying visit in beautiful weather, I cycled the (new?) 40km path from Frederiksshund to Copenhagen.

Today, a 22km hike over the Dublin mountains with the dog..

 

[Esperanza]

Spring has sprung! This is a local canyon, and it was full of hikers enjoying the beautiful sunshine and warm weather this weekend.

And right on the trail, an unfinished project of the local beavers. Also a bad photo (sorry!) of the beaver dam with a similar, freshly chewed log on it.

 

[Lexicos]

I’m out of words to describe these places and how I felt the day I walked through there.
Try “Postcards from the Sky” by Marjan Mozetich. It comes close.
I think I belong to the sea.

 

[mspath]

I’m out of words to describe these places and how I felt the day I walked through there.
Try “Postcards from the Sky” by Marjan Mozetich. It comes close.
I think I belong to the sea.


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Lexicos,
Thanks for posting these evocative shots. That broad sandy path is reminiscent of walking to Finisterre.

 

[Lexicos]

Lexicos,
Thanks for posting these evocative shots. That broad sandy path is reminiscent of walking to Finisterre.

With a bit of luck mspath I shall be in Finisterre in a few months time. It’s a magnificently beautiful place and I can’t wait to see it again. Doing my practise walks as we speak so that I’m well prepared. I’m glad you like my photos. They’re very special places.

 

[Theatregal]

A walk at Whiffin Spit in Sooke. A beautiful area with Sooke harbour on one side of the spit and the Juan de Fuca Strait on the other. The highlight was a gorgeous Anna's Hummingbird, who kept pace with me for a bit, flying back and forth across the path from tree to tree just ahead of me.

 

[Lexicos]

Urban hike this time.
The city centre at midnight.

 

[Tulle]

A wonderful day today. +12 degrees C and sunshine. It’s not very exciting walking on asphalt roads, but when the sun is shining all is well

 

[Peter Fransiscus]

We were in the vicinity of Roermond (Limburg) for a few days and on one of the days we did the "meinvennen" walk of almost 23 km.

 

[SabsP]

8k. around Belgian Kanne but also on Dutch ground of Maastricht. See bordermarker.
Chateau Neercanne and one of the famous caves ( no entry).
Glorious 15 Celsius at 10 in the morning.



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[Former member 49149]

8k. around Belgian Kanne but also on Dutch ground of Maastricht. See bordermarker.
Chateau Neercanne and one of the famous caves ( no entry).
Glorious 15 Celsius at 10 in the morning.



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The blossoms! Thank you,

 

[Arctic_Alex]

Just back from my second dogsled expedition of this year: 1 Week relocating equipment from a friend's kennel to his basecamp for the season – more than 200 km starting in the woodlands of Swedish Lapland leading deep into the mountains ... more exhausting than one might think as you need to support the dogs uphill and in the deep snow.
Out of 5 mushers only 3 made it uninjured ...

 

[Tulle]

Another wonderful dayI have posted pictures from this wall and the surroundings many times, but it was so nice walking there today. And at last a little sign of spring in my garden

 

[Theatregal]

Hiking on Mount Douglas today. An overcast drizzly day but glorious to be out on my day off - walking, clambering, climbing and enjoying spectacular views!

 

[Roland49]

4 weeks ago I hiked through the winterly Harz with 2 colleagues:


Snowmen all around




crossing the former border to the GDR

View to the "Achtermannshöhe", a solitary Rock with a view

The Brocken

view from Achtermannshöhe

my colleagues and me

 

[ranthr]

Nice weather to-day in the north of Norway.

 

[J Willhaus]

Phil wanted me on the Sunny side of the sign where my face is not in the shade. Also cute sign at the grocery store asking you to remove your nonslip device worn on shoes. (Yak Trax). More from the park later.

 

[Peregrina 2013]

The snow is melting, the temperature is rising, the days are sunny and it feels like spring, finally!!! At Frontenac State Park yesterday and today I got to see this as I was on my hike!

I see that my short video with the bald eagles doesn't seem to work very well. Here is a photo that I didn't want to post because the eagles are not centered - you'll see them on the very top. They were so beautiful to watch!
Just fixed the video issue
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[chinacat]

This was 10 days ago but, for some reason, I have great difficulty getting my photos from my phone to my iPad

A small local cove with some amazing rock formations.

 

[J Willhaus]

Hiked a couple of miles on the Upper Mammoth Hot Springs drive. Phil dropped a glove and I had to run back up the hill to look for it. Saw this Bad Boy elk on our way back to our cabin and he posed for a photo. Last full day here is tomorrow. As always we have seen some amazing wildlife and vistas. Love to come here in winter. We were all alone on our walk that would normally be wall to wall people at Yellowstone in summer. Weather tomorrow supposed to be excellent. We did get caught in a snow squall at the end of our hike today, but still beautiful.

 

[chinacat]

Saw this Bad Boy elk on our way back to our cabin and he posed for a photo.

He’s beautiful

 

[chinacat]

The highlight was a gorgeous Anna's Hummingbird, who kept pace with me for a bit, flying back and forth across the path from tree to tree just ahead of me.

wow … so beautiful

 

[Former member 49149]

Most mornings I sit in the darkness and drink coffee, and gradually light appears. i could see something unusual so went out and caught these images not long after 06.30. Sorry, my steps mark only 177! grant me some licence, it is St Patrick's Day after all!
First photo looks East. Second, West from front of house, third west from back yard. Rain is in the air.

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

I see that my short video with the bald eagles doesn't seem to work very well. Here is a photo that I didn't want to post because the eagles are not centered - you'll see them on the very top. They were so beautiful to watch!
Just fixed the video issue

Yes, the video is much nicer than the photo. Thanks.

Yesterday I couldn't see the video on my Android. This morning I noticed that clicking to see it actually dropped it into my download directory. Now I see you fixed things and I could see the video the intended way.

 

[Former member 49149]

Ah! On my real local walk I bumped into walkers from one side of the bay to the other. All I could do was give them a thumbs up, so as not to distract them. A couple of little boys, lots of dogs... and people of all ages and stages of life - each wearing a t-shirt with the name of the charity: AWARE. For those with mental health issues. If next year I am still able, I will at least attempt half...
here is a link to one website that explains much better than I can.

Aware’s Dublin Bay 'Harbour2Harbour' Walk Returns This St. Patrick’s Day

Mental Health Charity’s First Live Fundraising Event In Two Years

www.afloat.ie

I was caught in the crossfire, as I walked with those walking from the Northside and when I had had enough, turned around and those from the Southside were passing me as well... such a wonderful way to begin the National Day.

 

[J Willhaus]

The snow is melting, the temperature is rising, the days are sunny and it feels like spring, finally!!! At Frontenac State Park yesterday and today I got to see this as I was on my hike!

I see that my short video with the bald eagles doesn't seem to work very well. Here is a photo that I didn't want to post because the eagles are not centered - you'll see them on the very top. They were so beautiful to watch!
Just fixed the video issue
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Saw a pair of bald eagles stalking a merganzer duck out in the Lamar Valley at Yellowstone on Tuesday. (He did get away.) I think he was having luck fixing for trout on the bit of open water in the river and they weren't.

 

[SabsP]

Evening.
Cultivation of raspberries. Local farm.

 

[Camino Chrissy]

I've been back in Illinois for two weeks walking my local "rail to trail" from the house. No sign of spring yet except for the last four days of 70°F weather...I'm not complaining.

 

[Former member 49149]

I am going to cheat. My second post today. I wanted something green. The photo was taken on a homemade camino in Ireland in 2018, down along the river Barrow. ( It was to wipe away the pain of the uppy-downy Salvador the previous year. The San Salvador is a very beautiful camino, but it cost me too much in terms of knee pain.)

 

[J Willhaus]

Last day on Yellowstone for this trip.

 

[Icacos]

Spring is here; new growth, moss and rain and rain

 

[Theatregal]

Evening.
Cultivation of raspberries. Local farm.

Under a raspberry sky!

 

[Theatregal]

Spring is here; new growth, moss and rain and rain

Definitely a sign of spring when the osoberry starts blooming!

 

[Icacos]

Definitely a sign of spring when the osoberry starts blooming!

Thank you! I was wondering what that shrub was.

 

[Theatregal]

Thank you! I was wondering what that shrub was.

Just learned it the other day! I've always noticed it at the start of spring but finally looked it up on the handy plant ID app "Picture This"

 

[ranthr]

yesterdays walk, today too bad weather for photos.

 

[Theatregal]

An early evening, oceanside bracingly windy walk after work. A beautiful clear day after some days of rain. This walk especially, along Dallas Rd is one of the reasons why I love working in Victoria once a year!

 

[Former member 49149]

An early evening, oceanside bracingly windy walk after work. A beautiful clear day after some days of rain. This walk especially, along Dallas Rd is one of the reasons why I love working in Victoria once a year!

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Of course, your signature as ever, although fowl this time!

 

[Former member 49149]

I made myself go out. I took a fair number of photos, but mostly, I was, as frequently I am, reminded of the sacred ground of walking over the erased footprints of those who lived and loved and died here before I ever walked this terrain. Here are three, and a link to a poorly organised wordpress page. I know, a recent post could teach me how to improve that presentation but I have other things to do!
The third one shows the modern version of the elegant entrances to elegant buildings, once guarded by elegant sentries. Modern sentries can be sunk into the gound to let authorised vehicles pass...
The tulip is a sign of immense hope.
The glimpse of the city is via a design element in a bridge designed by a popular Spanish architect, Calatrava.

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[Tulle]

Another wonderful day for walking - and relaxing afterwards

 

[Camino Chrissy]

Today I met up with a newer forum member, @maryloufrommadison, for a seven mile walk along a river park, followed by a delicious lunch outdoors of chickpeas, sweet potatoes, couscous, beets, walnuts and a dressing "to die for" and I'm not a vegetarian. It doesn't look like spring yet, but sunshine, no wind, and 60-70° F still made it a winner.
Marylou leaves in a few weeks for her very first Camino and I am very excited for her.

 

[Former member 49149]

On Saturdays, my current normal is to walk for 20 minutes, local train for 15, then cup of tea in a shopping centre, walk an hour, and help someone who needs help in decluttering. Usually I retrace my steps, but today I will take another way home. I took a little video of the sea at the station, and a photo of my socks and sandals!!! And finally, my tea. Cafe con leche is really for a proper Camino, for me.
Socks? Yes. I wore other sandals for too long earlier this week, so need to protect my feet today as I will walk for around 3 hours in total.
Video too big, just imagine gently lapping waves and a misty bay, with promise of heat in the sun...

 

[Former member 49149]

and all at once I saw a crowd, a host, of golden daffodils.
And lots of beautiful blossom, but now I am at home, I can post the video of the sea. Enjoy.

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[Peregrina 2013]

Left Minnesota on Tuesday to come to Colorado Springs to visit our son and his family. Today my son and I went for a 5 mile hike around the Stratton Open Space by Cheyenne Mountain. It is a glorious sunny 75˚F day!

 

[SabsP]

Too warm and dry for the time of year.
Blossom will be early.
Already lots of daytourists on the road, especially with electric bikes. No luxury in this hilly region.
In one pic you can see how dry it is because that stretch normally is very muddy.

 

[Theatregal]

Two hikes today on my day off - the first along the Coast Trail in East Sooke Regional Park. I first walked this trail about 10 years ago and was so happy to be on it today. I walked the less rugged section but still a good amount of scrambling over rocks, knarly tree roots and navigating some pretty muddy sections. Along the way a petroglyph of a seal on a rock at the waters edge. The petroglyph has been deteriorating - it was much less defined than when I first saw it.
Then on to Witty's Lagoon to see the Seated Sisters Falls. Fawn Lillys were blooming along the path, a Northern Flicker making it's nest hole in a tree and an new bird for me... a California Quail. A spectacular day and it didn't rain!

 

[Josep Montserrat]

Today wild goats (Capra pyrenaica) exhibition at Montserrat next to the path.

 

[Camino Chrissy]

My walk today was sunny, with no wind and 45°F. There is absolutely no color, nor spring flowers popping up quite yet. To avoid a bit of boredom I ventured off my trail for a change, walking through some scruff and along the edge of a couple of plowed corn fields. I ended by sharing a few carrots with my cute little 4-legged friends, June and Sarge, on my way back home.

 

[SabsP]

Very old and a newer chapel.
One of the many castlefarms in the area.
More blossom.
Divine cheesecake.

 

[SabsP]

Another chapel.
Test of new custommade insoles.
Sunset.
New plants for the raspberry farm.

 

[Icacos]

Took our mother for a walk in a sunny, but still untended outdoor area of her care home. In the space between the boards of a planter much neglected over the winter, an exquisite little pansy is beaming its vibrant colours.

 

[Esperanza]

Today’s outing with my hiking group was to the Ancient Lakes area of central Washington state. Gorgeous scenery, weather, and wildflowers, but the trail was rough in places and nonexistent in others. Five and a half miles felt like ten!

 

[Theatregal]

A morning beach path walk. Glorious day. Along the way, Brant Geese, using my shadow to define tide pool creatures, vibrant Sand Dune Wallflowers, a curious carving in a rock, a Song Sparrow singing it's heart out in the gorse, a dog with big ambition and lift off for a para-glider.

 

[Peregrina 2013]

Sunrise on the Mississippi was spectacular followed by a walk in the woods at Frontenac State Park where I am anxiously awaiting for a tinge of green and spring blossoms to follow! Pretty muddy and drab, but hiking nonetheless, getting ready for my Camino

 

[Tulle]

Wonderful winter landscape. But it is April! Spring was here, the snow was gone and flowers were blossoming. Then Winter came back

 

[Theatregal]

A hike this morning along the stone path to the top of Christmas Hill in Saanich.

 

[Camino Chrissy]

I'm in Florida for two weeks and every morning I take a two mile walk on the promenade and out to the new pier.






EDIT- I forgot to mention that I had the pleasure of meeting up with @t2andreo for the third time as he lives not far from where I am in Florida.

 

[Esperanza]

Had a great hike in wide open spaces today. That’s Mount Adams in the distance.

 

[Former member 49149]

My walk was nothing special, just out for exercise and at the end, some house shopping. I had to take this photo, and on closer inspection, doubt very much if they are classic. Not with soya...
I hope we soon lose the option to eat regional foods anywhere...just like the fruit i discovered in Manila 100 years ago () that I would never buy at home.

 

[Peregrina 2013]

Things are looking up this week with warmer temperatures and sunny days Finally, today I was able to get into one of my favorite trail sections in Frontenac State Park with great views of the Mississippi - snow has melted and the trail is relatively dry.

 

[Peregrina 2013]

Today is an amazingly beautiful, warm and sunny day It's been so windy the past few days and it's helped dry out the muddy trails rather quickly - to my delight! I'd been anxiously waiting to get back into the midst of the forest on another one of my favorite trails

 

[CaminoKentucky]

My favorite place to walk - in my beautiful Kentucky. I almost feel as though I am on the Camino when I take this hike.

 

[CaminoKentucky]

Things are looking up this week with warmer temperatures and sunny days Finally, today I was able to get into one of my favorite trail sections in Frontenac State Park with great views of the Mississippi - snow has melted and the trail is relatively dry.

@Peregrina 2013 lovely photos! How do you upload your photo in this small version? Thanks!

 

[Peregrina 2013]

@Peregrina 2013 lovely photos! How do you upload your photo in this small version? Thanks!

I just take them out of photos in my computer and put them on the desktop to grab and download them here. I do have the option of making them bigger, but I just leave them as thumbnails

 

[Theatregal]

A walk around Swan Lake in Victoria and the surrounding trails nature sanctuary trails. A beautiful oasis in the city. Along the way a Turkey Vulture! I've only seen one once before and it was high in the sky. Also sitting low in a tree, a Red-tailed Hawk.

 

[Peregrina 2013]

A walk around Swan Lake in Victoria and the surrounding trails nature sanctuary trails. A beautiful oasis in the city. Along the way a Turkey Vulture! I've only seen one once before and it was high in the sky. Also sitting low in a tree, a Red-tailed Hawk.

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Victoria is one of my very favorite cities in the whole world!!

 

[Ali@59]

A weekend's break with some walking around Mallaig on the north west coast of Scotland, the view through the viaduct is of Loch nan Uamh where one Bonnie prince Charlie arrived to claim the throne of Britain and Ireland which started the famous 1745 rebellion

 

[Theatregal]

Victoria is one of my very favorite cities in the whole world!!

It is beautiful! I happily have a 2 month work contract here every year - so lots of time to explore and visit favourite places on the island.

 

[CaminoKentucky]

I just take them out of photos in my computer and put them on the desktop to grab and download them here. I do have the option of making them bigger, but I just leave them as thumbnails

Thanks...Hmm ok I do it the same way. But I don't see the option to make them bigger - they're just that way. I need to get a tutor!

 

[Peregrina 2013]

It is beautiful! I happily have a 2 month work contract here every year - so lots of time to explore and visit favourite places on the island.

Lucky you! That's the best way to get to know the city! I've been there 4 times and twice backpacked the West Coast Trail on the Pacific Rim Rain Forest My friends and I were planning on visiting last September, but with everything that has been going on we've postponed it, hopefully for later this year

 

[CaminoKentucky]

Mmmm, these are screenshots of how my photos get downloaded. I actually don't do anything with them, I just leave them and post, but the 2 choices I get are: a) Insert thumbnail and b) Full image

Mmmm, these are screenshots of how my photos get downloaded. I actually don't do anything with them, I just leave them and post, but the 2 choices I get are: a) Insert thumbnail and b) Full image

I drag a photo out of my photo album (MacBook Pro) to the desktop. Then I click on the insert images icon. I drag and drop the photo in. I do not get the options a) Insert thumbnail and b) Full image.

 

[Pathfinder075]

I haven't started the main walks yet. For this year its the Pennine Way and Coast to Coast. Really wish i could do the GR20 this year, but it's not possible. If on the otherhand you mean local as in local, then I regularly walk in Derbyshire, around Castleton. Edale to Sheffield is a favourite.

 

[Ekelund]

I went for a walk in the woods and stumbled across this giant troll amongst the trees. In 2016, the artist Thomas Dambo made the popular 6 giant trolls "Forgotten Giants" from recycled wood, and they can be seen in the woods west of Copenhagen. I have heard about the trolls but not seen them and it was a surprise, when the troll suddenly was in front of me.

 

[CaminoKentucky]

I just click on the bottom here where it says Attach files and it goes by default to my desktop where I select the image and click on the blue Open button on the bottom. I, too, have an Apple iMac. I wonder why?

@Peregrina 2013 Now I get it! I was dragging my photos into the Insert Images icon rather than using Attach Files. Thank you for patiently explaining!

 

[TrvlDad1]

Winter is surely over in the South. The reptiles are out sunning and the hawks and owls are amorously active and bold around walkers on the Atlanta Beltline.

 

[m108]

Today - The Slovenian St. James's Way passes my home (1km). And today was a really wonderful day. The church at the top of the hill is the Church of St. James.

Slovenia Camino (Jakobova pot)

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[SabsP]

Several photos from 2016 along the solitary Camino Sanabrés. One of my very favorite albergues was the Albergue Casa Leiras in Dornelas. Cristina and Andrés from Italy fell in love with the area when they were walking this same path and decided to purchase the property back in 2008 and open an albergue. My stay there was memorable because I had the whole place to myself;-) and the highlight definitely was when they invited me to dinner in the main house with them and their lovely twin toddler daughters, they made me feel at home!

EDIT: Sorry, I posted on the wrong thread!!! This is supposed to be in the:

On the Camino: One Day at a Time, one Photo at a Time 9.0​

You are still able to delete them here.

 

[SabsP]

Today - The Slovenian St. James's Way passes my home (1km). And today was a really wonderful day. The church at the top of the hill is the Church of St. James.

Slovenia Camino (Jakobova pot)

18 new items added to shared album

photos.app.goo.gl

Great way of sharing lots of pictures!

Thank you!

 

[Tulle]

I must admit that I didn’t walk today, I went by car to a fjord not far from where I live. I think this mountain is majestic.

 

[Former member 49149]

I did walk today. With lots of stops, a modern version of 'stations', as befits the liturgical motif for today.
No rhyme nor reason, just some photos of what took my fancy. One shows a stylised Calvary setting outside a church, another shows a very old milestone, and another shows what might be a replica, but if not it is a rather old stone cross, in Blackrock. One is the remaining specimen of some trees of hope I found a year ago. It has survived. I wish I could make the word hope in green, but not allowed, just regular black colour in our posts!

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

I haven't been keeping up here lately. We've been on a trip and, while I like my plan, data is expensive. I've finally got some Wifi. I'll be starting from three weeks back.

This post is only good if local means within the same country.

Peg gets sick of winter around March or April and wants to head south where it is warmer, warm enough for camping. Usually we manage a long day and make it to Shenandoah National Park in Virginia for an overnight stay before heading on to warmer Tennessee for a few days. Lately we make the trip with our little travel trailer, our refugio if you will. This year we pulled into the campground at the same time as Sam, an Appalachian Trail through-hiker with the trail name Backstroke. He had walked a whopping 30 mile (48 km) day and planned to go a half mile further to a three sided shelter where he could pitch his tent in it out of the freezing wind. He was enticed into our trailer for wine though and got to sit on a soft seat for three hours while the trailer warmed up, his dinner cooked for him and we entertained each other. He set up his tent in our campsite and spent the night in his bag but also under one our blankets. He was a happy camper in the morning even though it was windy with a temperature of 24⁰ (-5⁰).

Sam did 900 miles (1,400 km) through the mountains in eight weeks. We hope to see him again in a few months once he reaches New England. BTW, although he has only been backpacking for five years, ten years ago, with his then girlfriend, he walked the Camino Portuguese.

The picture shows El Refugio in the neighboring campsite about the same time a few years ago. No snow here this year but the weather was colder.

Although there was no walk for us this day we often stop at the park on our way back north and get a hike or two in. We've also had some other hikes on this trip that I would like to write about.

 

[Peregrina 2013]

He was enticed into our trailer for wine though and got to sit on a soft seat for three hours while the trailer warmed up, his dinner cooked for him and we entertained each other

At first I thought that was your camper!!

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

Our next stop for a few sunny days (and warmer ones) was at state park in Tennessee bordering a reservoir. Lots of trails in the hills and a few in the lowlands. It looked wintery though as there were no leaves or buds on the trees and there were no wildflowers either. But neither were there any bugs.

 

[TrvlDad1]

Wow, 30 miles on the AT is probably 40+ on most sections of the CF.

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

Although we camped at the state park a few times and it wasn't far from the state line we hadn't had the trailer spend a night in Kentucky before. We headed to Cumberland Gap National Historic Park where the states of TN, KY and VA meet. Surprise! The campground that I thought was in KY was in Virginia.

I'll let this webpage tell you the history and importance of the Cumberland Gap in American history but, to quickly remind you, it's where Daniel Boone led settlers from the eastern side of the Appalachian Mountains to the western side through a pass. Over the years it got slowly transformed into an automotive road but the Park Service has redirected traffic to a modern highway and tunneled under the mountain so it could transform the road to what it would look like around 1800. We walked along this "Wilderness Road" trail to the gap and then up the hill to an overlook at the place where the three states meet at a point.

At the visitor's center nearest the Gap there was a series of sculptures similar to the one at the Alto de Perdón showing the passage of time there. First the bison created the trail, then the Cherokee and Shawnee fought over the right to use it for hunting. Then colonial explorers are depicted. My picture shows the shows the section depicting the settlers. My pictures also show a monument at the actual gap from around 1900 that the Park Service has allowed to remain and a more simple sign it has erected.



The next day we headed out on a network of forest trails starting from the campground. I didn't bother taking any pictures as they would just show the trunks of bare trees and a leaf littered forest floor.

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

The next stop for hiking was a hidden gem, at least we hadn't heard of it before, the Big South Fork [of the Cumberland River] National River and Recreation Area run by the National Park Service. We spent a few days on the Kentucky side of it first at the Blue Heron Campground. The first day's Kentucky hiking started from an abandoned settlement with a plant where coal was sorted by size and grade for shipment by rail. We crossed the Big South Fork River by a converted rail bridge, walked along what was a railroad bed before heading up into the wooded hills to some overlooks. We were happy to see the plentiful wildflowers here.

 

[Peregrina 2013]

The next stop for hiking was a hidden gem, at least we hadn't heard of it before, the Big South Fork [of the Cumberland River] National River and Recreation Area run by the National Park Service. We spent a few days on the Kentucky side of it first at the Blue Heron Campground. The first day's Kentucky hiking started from an abandoned settlement with a plant where coal was sorted by size and grade for shipment by rail. We crossed the Big South Fork River by a converted rail bridge, walked along what was a railroad bed before heading up into the wooded hills to some overlooks. We were happy to see the plentiful wildflowers here.
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Can't wait to see spring flowers! Beautiful!

 

[Peter Fransiscus]

Had my last longer walk before leaving for Santiago at April the 25th.


The around 650 year old Pieterman church.



Kijkhoek church , build around 1388.

 

[Camino Chrissy]

@Rick of Rick and Peg, I have enjoyed reading your newest posts of your camping trip. I think it is great how you embraced the hiker from the AT and invited him your little abode to share some wine(I'm envious as I've wanted to have another chat and meet Peg). Sharing your campsite with a blanket included was a bit of "Camino magic/the Camino provides" moment for him.

 

[SabsP]

Had my last longer walk before leaving for Santiago at April the 25th.

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The around 650 year old Pieterman church.
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Kijkhoek church , build around 1388.

All the best @Peter Fransiscus with your volunteering! If you have time it would be nice if you are able to make a live thread about your work at the Huiskamer but no pressure of course!