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Favorite walks - 5/10/2009 12:08:35 AM   
darklight17


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Status: offline 		This is pretty lame, but I was wondering where and when some of you have enjoyed your favorite walks. I've been enjoying some late night meanderings after the rain lately, and with a few lights, the settings are almost transcendent. The forest and the creek are amazing in the moonlight! Yes, I'm a dumb artsy sort of person, and I walk with a waltz, sorry!

I just wanted to know where people have been and such. So where do you go walk and think?
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RE: Favorite walks - 5/10/2009 12:12:58 AM   
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Status: offline 		Or I could ruin this whole post and just ask where is your, "Walk to Remember."

Okay, now I feel sufficiently evil like I have poisoned the well.

Honestly, I like this question and I want to get rid of that vanilla forum cone. Two birds, one stone :)

*Edited for punctuation error.

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RE: Favorite walks - 5/10/2009 12:14:08 AM   
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Status: offline 		My favorite of all time, in the dead of winter, when I would walk to work at 4:30am.  No cars on the streets, the snow still falling from the night before, and everything just perfectly pristine.  So quiet you could hear the snowflakes hitting eachother and landing on your hair, and the way they glimmered in the streetlamps, shining like millions of tiny rainbows, before landing and being lost in the vast expanse of untouched whiteness on the ground.

Just one of those things that, if I could freeze time in one point forever, it would be right then.  Something about it just epitomizes "peaceful" to me.


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RE: Favorite walks - 5/10/2009 12:25:36 AM   
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Status: offline 		my house borders on a street that has trees that are old enough to lean over and meet in the middle. in the summer when the leaves are fully out, it feels like walking through a cathedral of green. late at night, when the birds are asleep and the wind is soft; early in the morning before the traffic starts. on the weekends when the children are playing...

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RE: Favorite walks - 5/10/2009 12:36:57 AM   
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RE: Favorite walks - 5/10/2009 12:47:01 AM   
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Status: offline 		I hiked to the top of Algonquin Peak (2nd highest mountain in NY) one day in the thick fog/steady drizzle--I just needed to get away and move and think. When I reached the last few hundred feet, I climbed above the clouds and stood on an island of rock, surrounded by an ocean of white, sun-drenched cotton clouds in every direction.

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RE: Favorite walks - 5/10/2009 12:53:20 AM   
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Status: offline 		I live between Vauxhall Bridge and Chelsea Bridge close to Central London, therefore my walks are along the banks of the River Thames which is especially good at low tide when you can actually walk along the shore close to the water. My entry and exit point is right by Vauxhall Bridge where the underground River Effra empties into the Thames.

I often do this at night when it is dark, but up on the embankment you still have the lights, noise and bustle of London, but you are distanced, and you can watch the river traffic, the boats and barges, go up and down the Thames.

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RE: Favorite walks - 5/10/2009 1:01:13 AM   
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Status: offline 		These make me so happy. All of you, thank you very much.

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RE: Favorite walks - 5/10/2009 4:08:41 AM   
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Status: offline 		I love to walk on the beach. The Outer Banks. The Jersey shore. Doesn't matter. I love watching the Atlantic Ocean, especially after a storm.

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RE: Favorite walks - 5/10/2009 4:36:19 AM   
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Status: offline 		Some of My favortite walks have been at Gettysburg at dusk, but I love the neighborhood where we live, the foliage is amazing---my favorite time is ealy spring when its still nippy and fall--our leaves here can get spectacular.  I usually walk with My semi-adult UM versus music, its a good time for us to chat about life.
 
However, I keep classical music playing in the garage all the time---so any work outside gets "seranaded"

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RE: Favorite walks - 5/10/2009 4:40:48 AM   
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RE: Favorite walks - 5/10/2009 6:38:12 AM   
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Status: offline 		Oh god, I live on a beautiful hill overlooking a lovely valley. I've lived here in smalltown rural Iowa, most of my life. Only done a bit of traveling but to beautiful places. I love to walk so there are so many memorable walks.

I have to say one of my all time favourites, one that repeats at least once a year.

Winter, snowing heavily, big huge fat flakes. Blurring the landscape, muffling sounds. Creating a quiet winter wonderland. No wind, and not too cold. I am home, don't have to go anywhere. I can take the dogs out into the fields and let them run and play, bouncing through the snow. I can walk and run with them, huge fat wet flakes that takes all the hard edges off of everything, softening the world. The occasional rabbit or pheasant gets flushed from the clumps, of snow covered, underbrush. Something for the dogs to bound after. We stay out until we are all wet and getting cold. Long haired dog gets snow clumps in her paw hairs. Back to the house to dry off, warm up, hot chocolate. And maybe a nap on the sofa with the favourite super soft blanket.

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RE: Favorite walks - 5/10/2009 6:56:08 AM   
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Status: offline 		Any section of the AT.

But New Hampshire`s White Mountain trails are my favorite.Almost every trail has a stream or waterfall next to it.

Someday I want to thru-hike the trail from Georgia to Maine.

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RE: Favorite walks - 5/10/2009 7:18:57 AM   
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Status: offline 		My favourite walk is down into the valley to the Royal Oak twice a week, I could do it blind fold, I have a strong sense of smell where hops are concerned. Coming back five hours later, blind, as is sometimes the case, just keep going uphill, I will get home eventually. Start going downhill, again, I have missed my home, either that or somehow I have turned around.

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RE: Favorite walks - 5/10/2009 11:21:42 AM   
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Status: offline 		We have lots of converted rails to trails in CT, and my favorite section runs over an old bridge 140 ft. high that offers a spectacular view in the fall when all the trees are changing color.

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RE: Favorite walks - 5/10/2009 11:25:43 AM   
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Status: offline 		My always and still favorite walk, day or night, is an Altantic beach in the off season.

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