Tag: hiking

  • Tired of Garmin and Apple, Playing With Casio

    Tired of Garmin and Apple, Playing With Casio

    Reading Time: 3 minutes For a while now I have been wearing a Casio and an apple watch or a Garmin and an Apple watch, or a Casio and a Garmin watch or a xiaomi smart band and a casio or a xiaomi smart band and… it goes on. A Break of Routine The reason…

  • Exploration on Foot

    Exploration on Foot

    Reading Time: 2 minutes Walking is an easy activity. You put your shoes on, and you go for a walk. Sometimes you walk from home. Other times you walk from a car park. Sometimes you walk along rivers that are full, and others you walk along streams that are almost dry. A few years ago…

  • The Temptation of a Group Hike

    The Temptation of a Group Hike

    Reading Time: 2 minutes A few days ago I signed up for a group hike but decided not to go for two or three reasons. The two main reasons were the size of the group and the weather. From what I saw fifteen people were going to go on that hike and I am still…

  • A Growing Fear of Wolves

    A Growing Fear of Wolves

    Reading Time: 2 minutes More Wolves In Switzerland they reintroduced wolves and they are thriving, to the point where a collection of 17 packs of wolves became a pack of 35 wolves. As the number of wolves increases so does the probability that humans will fall victim to wolves. They are thinking of reintroducing them…

  • Playing With the Switzerland Mobility App

    Playing With the Switzerland Mobility App

    Reading Time: 2 minutes Yesterday I was planning to walk from Nyon to La Barillette but rather than take the usual route that takes me via a set of cabins where there is sometimes a dog I wanted to try an alternate route. In the end I used the Switzerland Mobility app and website because…

  • Hiking in the Jura in Minimal Shoes

    Hiking in the Jura in Minimal Shoes

    Reading Time: 2 minutes Today I went for a short walk in the Jura with minimal shoes and I felt fine. The shoes, despite being thin soled, felt fine on the dry dirt paths. They do get wet when walking in dew covered grass but that’s what you would expect so that’s acceptable.  When you’re…

  • Appalachian Trail Progress Via Garmin And Walk The Distance

    Appalachian Trail Progress Via Garmin And Walk The Distance

    Reading Time: 2 minutes Recently I started the Appalachian Trail Challenge on Garmin Connect and every sstep I take counts towards the goal. The goal is to walk 3,500km, which is around 4.9 million steps. I have walked 652 km out of 3,500 so I have completed about 18 percent of the challenge. I am…

  • Hiking With Cats

    Hiking With Cats

    Reading Time: 2 minutes Usually when we hear of people hiking with cats we think of them walking with the cat, or cats, on a leash. In a Pass Moi Les Jumelles (PAJU for short), we follow two guys who go for a walk with four cats. The report is funny because the cats, or…

  • A Walk To Los Molinos from Javea

    A Walk To Los Molinos from Javea

    Reading Time: 3 minutes This walk takes you from the Port of Javea up to the lighthouse near San Antonio before continuing along the top towards Los Molinos. These are old grain mills. They used wind power to grind grain for several centuries before being taken out of action as modernisation arrived. The walk takes…

  • Reading About The Camino De Santiago

    Reading Time: 2 minutes Over the last month or so I have been reading Le Camino Seule, ou enfin presque and it is one of my favourite hiking books. It might simply be because it was written in French, by a french woman rather than in English by Brits or Americans but it made me…