Tag: hiking
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Hiking With a Herd of Cats – Not Literally
Reading Time: 3 minutesEvery week, in Whatsapp groups, I see the same questions. "Who is driving from A?" "Who is driving from B?" "Where can I park?" and more questions. The same questions are asked every time. A decade or two ago I might have understood, but not in 2025. For some hikes this makes…
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Looking for Conversations in the Age of Facebook Dominance
Reading Time: 2 minutesA few days ago someone wrote something about chocolate croissants. I then wrote something about Chocolate easter bunnies. A third person then said "please don’t have conversations, there are hundreds of people reading this exchange". This is on WhatsApp. WhatsApp is, or at least was, an IM client. For those of a…
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Complicated Hiking Logistics
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis morning I was studying the logistics for Stage 8 and 9 of the Jura Crest Trail before thinking, "This is too complicated, to be interesting". Specifically, I noticed that if we finish at Vue des Alpes we have to go via La-Chaux-De-Fonds rather than via Neuchatel. This means that if we…
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Watching a Cloud Grow While Walking
Reading Time: 5 minutesYesterday I went for a walk and during this walk I kept looking at the Jura. Above the Jura I could see a cumolonimbus cloud mushroom and grow upwards, before spreading out. This morning I read about a huge hail storm. I photographed that storm cell as it was growing. Yesterday I…
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A Weekend in Two Hikes
Reading Time: 5 minutesThis weekend I didn’t blog because I went on two hikes. The first hike was with the History hiking meetup group, and the second was with a GoSocial group. Both hikes were around 10km in different landscapes. The first one went from Bière to Allaman and the second one went from Haut-De-Caux…
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A Choice of Weekend Sports
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis weekend I have the choice between running, hiking, walking, via ferrata and probably more. Years ago I would have automatically gravitated towards Via Ferrata because that is a sport I really loved. These days I’m not so sure. It’s especially that the VF would take one and a half hours of…
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The Saturday Run
Reading Time: 2 minutesRecently I have been hiking so regularly, and on such long hikes that I rest during the week. Two weeks ago I hiked a lot and we had Vision Du Réel so I didn’t run or cycle much. This morning I could have gone for a group run with people in Geneva…
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Plenty of Transport
Reading Time: 2 minutesIf you live in towns it’s easy to do things. You walk half an hour to an hour and you’re ready to do something. In contrast, if you live in a village doing the same thing would require a lot of traveling. Tomorrow, for example, I could travel into Geneva in the…
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Hiking From Le Pont to Marchairuz
Reading Time: 2 minutesIf you’re ready to use buses and trains opportunities for walks and hikes open up. Yesterday’s hike, for example, was possible because we parked the cars in Marchairuz before catching a bus to Le Pont. That’s where we met another part of the group before hiking from le Pont, to the Col…
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A Weekend of Hiking
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis weekend I went on two hikes. The first was from St-Cergue to La Dôle and back and the second was from Marchairuz to St Cergue. It amounts to about 66,000 steps and thirty four kilometres of hiking. The La Dôle walk is a familiar walk that I have from multiple directions…