luka

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The summit isn't the point, it's the approach. Every climb necessitates a walk through multiple landscapes. You just walk for hours through various vistas and somehow you end up in some completely alien place.

Its the best thing ever.

Even if you just walk from top to bottom you go through a variety of climatic zones. I've had very little experience of proper mountains but when I lived in Sydney I went to the blue mountains a lot. They're not mountains but they still give you these ecological strata to move through.
 

catalog

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Dissensus walking club. I wanna do Pembrokeshire way although it will be a total bastard cos it's coastal.
 

yyaldrin

in je ogen waait de wind
i just saw a picture of the river wye in wales, i had never heard of it, it looks so beautiful, it's where i want to have a walk.

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catalog

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I went for a walk today, pule hill in Marsden, and f on there 'off path' to Greenfield. Nice and sunny, crunchy frost underfoot. 10 miles or so. Saw two massive army helicopters, apocalypse now type ones. And a big white hare ran out it's hole in front of me. Got a bit sketchy at points on the heather, feet got wet

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catalog

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went for a walk round a reservoir yesterday eve, in the drizzle. was gonna go to skelton park scene of rave but no one else wanted to do that. so was a pretty place in ripponden. went in sandals and got stuck in mud, one sandal came off, had to go barefoot. was very nice, going thru squelchy mud and puddles. but now my right foot is really hurting, hope its nowt serious. but yeah, barefoot in the mud and rain, that's the vibrational frequency i aspire too
 

entertainment

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that sounds nice

the rain has a way of dispersing that omnipresent electric tension of rational administration. some indwelling spirit comes up for air. you feel more connected to nature.
 

catalog

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Defo, we've done a few rain walks and it's nice. Very few others out, your hearing takes over, with the mist there's a nice ethereal quality going on. Brings out the greens too
 

entertainment

Well-known member
A bit of the same happens when walking at night. The inner life of things is let out and forms this poetic continuum.

It's not exactly a harmony, and not a disharmony either. It's simply the sheer existence of the things together that become animated and interesting.

It might have to do with your regular daytime calibrated sense ratios being interrupted. Suddenly, vision is no longer the all-important sense-making tool of reality. You are forced to sense the presence of things with different faculties.

You can appreciate things like you are experiencing them for the first time ever. It's magical.
 

entertainment

Well-known member
Had a nice walk today having conversations with myself in my head about how nice it was.

The key is to find out what the city wants you to do, how it channels your movement and attention, and then disembed from that plan, deliberately undermine this rational administration. The city becomes a new place, something like a wilderness and you can sorta look at the people from the outside.
 

luka

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it can be surprisingly difficult. it's always trying to channel you and steer you onto the main energy lines
 
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