The Walking Thread

[Bamyasi]

Do you like to go on walks?

How about long walks in the moonlight?

Have you ever been on one of these?

Did you see anything interesting?

Since I moved to a safer part of town (i.e. innawoods) I have enjoyed being able to walk at night. The other night I saw an albino deer. Pretty cool. I was looking for the source of this cheering and drum beating. I thought I would stumble into a moonlit glade and some Halloween masquerade and be sucked into some kind of magical suburban underworld but it was really just a stupid sporting event at a nearby school. Life sux.

[SrsSam77]

I thought this was going to be about zombies

[Dust]

I like moonlight.

[soup]

i havent moved from this comfortable desk chair in almost 4 days

i doubt my legs even work anymore and im not really bothered if they dont

[Bamyasi]

I thought this was going to be about zombies

Hey howsabout you turn 360° and walk away, chum.

[ProtoChaud]

I like going on walks out in the middle of nowhere sometimes, but I don't do it enough. Vid related, it's me when I walk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRPiGoieHv0

[SrsSam77]

Time for a serious reply, I love walking, I used to walk for an hour both ways to the gym and then about 30 minutes more regularly going to comm college and back until I got a car.
Walking back, through the weird texan blend of cheap housing developments and cow pastures in total darkness felt really freeing, and I don't think I ever really felt depressed if I got to walk back home just one night every week; but for the periods I stopped walking (winter break and now) I feel a lot more cramped up and more depressed way more often. There's really something to breathing in some outside air and letting your mind go blank as you try crossing streets while not getting ran over by a dad in his high draft pickup truck.

[Bamyasi]

Walking in total darkness sounds dangerous. You should get a flashlight.

My flashlight of choice is a MagLite 3-Cell D LED. It makes me feel safe because I can wack rapists with it.

[rtil]

Have you ever been on one of these?

sort of not really on my bike a few times. mostly not urban though and going on trails and different places i'd never been before just to see how far i could go. hard to do this now because i live in the city where riding a bike means you're stopping every 2 seconds and an annoyance to both drivers and pedestrians. but one time i did this i got very very lost and almost encountered a bear/bears. i didn't have a cell phone with me so i found some high ground and had to look for some power lines. i followed them in the direction i hoped would lead to where i lived and i turned out to be right. so that went ok

[Shida]

I used to go on 10 mile walks about a year ago, even hiked up mountains a couple of times. I go with a group, and its kinda fun to end up walking in the dark (for me and the group leader anyway, the rest of the group tends to go into a panic)

Closest thing I've done recently is caving.

I used to Derive when I first moved to my current city just to explore and find nice little cafés and stuff!

[Bamyasi]

Which mountains would you walk Shida? And yeah stuff like this is typically more fun with other people, but it's an entirely different experience going it alone.

Have you ever been on one of these?

sort of not really on my bike a few times. mostly not urban though and going on trails and different places i'd never been before just to see how far i could go. hard to do this now because i live in the city where riding a bike means you're stopping every 2 seconds and an annoyance to both drivers and pedestrians. but one time i did this i got very very lost and almost encountered a bear/bears. i didn't have a cell phone with me so i found some high ground and had to look for some power lines. i followed them in the direction i hoped would lead to where i lived and i turned out to be right. so that went ok

That sounds like a fucking adventure but also terrifying. How long were you lost and how close were you to the bears?

Also I think that would totally fit Debord's definition.

I got lost in the woods the other night. I was taking a shortcut and thought I could find my way back by looking for the aircraft warning lights on the cell tower at the edge of the forest. Turns out the trees were to thick after walking through them for 15 minutes, so I had to turn around on my way back. This is when I saw the albino deer but shortly after that my flashlight batteries died and I fell in a creek.

[michaell]

i sometimes go back home on foot after uni but its cold and times meagre so fuck that

[Shida]

Which mountains would you walk Shida? And yeah stuff like this is typically more fun with other people, but it's an entirely different experience going it alone.

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I got lost in the woods the other night. I was taking a shortcut and thought I could find my way back by looking for the aircraft warning lights on the cell tower at the edge of the forest. Turns out the trees were to thick after walking through them for 15 minutes, so I had to turn around on my way back. This is when I saw the albino deer but shortly after that my flashlight batteries died and I fell in a creek.

Well I live in good old Yorkshire so I've hiked Pen-y-ghent and Ingleborough. We've done a couple of smaller trigpoints too but the peaks are my favourite. Stoodley Pike near Hebden Bridge is a nice hill walk too.

Woods are the worst place to get lost imo. They freak me out even in the daytime. I hate jogging down the canal before sunrise because there's a thicket right next to the path and I feel like I'll be ambushed one day...

[crackers]

Yorkshire is a cool place, I once was there to see QPR play, it's a lot more Scotland-friendly than down south in London

[ExBerian]

I used to go to all the state parks and hike with the Venture and Boy Scouts but now I just walk around my neighborhood or the Park/woods across the street. Sometimes Ill go walking downtown, but that is a little less often since its getting colder and there is no trees to block the wind.

[Shida]

Yorkshire is a cool place, I once was there to see QPR play, it's a lot more Scotland-friendly than down south in London

I think there are a lot of similarities between Yorkshiremen and Scots which makes them get along. I think you guys are aces at any rate.

[zwimmy]

I go for walks pretty often. Ever since I've moved back to my hometown I've been discovering new paths around my own city I never really knew about. I think I might have been through some of them before when I was a kid. It's nice that there are a lot of trees and forested areas around this city with paths through them.

[rtil]

Which mountains would you walk Shida? And yeah stuff like this is typically more fun with other people, but it's an entirely different experience going it alone.

Have you ever been on one of these?

sort of not really on my bike a few times. mostly not urban though and going on trails and different places i'd never been before just to see how far i could go. hard to do this now because i live in the city where riding a bike means you're stopping every 2 seconds and an annoyance to both drivers and pedestrians. but one time i did this i got very very lost and almost encountered a bear/bears. i didn't have a cell phone with me so i found some high ground and had to look for some power lines. i followed them in the direction i hoped would lead to where i lived and i turned out to be right. so that went ok

That sounds like a fucking adventure but also terrifying. How long were you lost and how close were you to the bears?

Also I think that would totally fit Debord's definition.

I got lost in the woods the other night. I was taking a shortcut and thought I could find my way back by looking for the aircraft warning lights on the cell tower at the edge of the forest. Turns out the trees were to thick after walking through them for 15 minutes, so I had to turn around on my way back. This is when I saw the albino deer but shortly after that my flashlight batteries died and I fell in a creek.

i was probably lost for 2-3 hours , hard to tell because it was the middle of the day and the sun was out , but so were the clouds so it just felt like the same time of day the whole time. i could only hear the bears but i couldn't see where they were , only had a general idea of where it was coming from. so that kind of made it scarier.

if it was night time i definitely would have been fucked as i had no source of light on me. but i wasn't planning on being out that late anyway

[Bamyasi]

i could only hear the bears but i couldn't see where they were , only had a general idea of where it was coming from. so that kind of made it scarier.

Woods are the worst place to get lost imo. They freak me out even in the daytime. I hate jogging down the canal before sunrise because there's a thicket right next to the path and I feel like I'll be ambushed one day...

They wood freak me out too if I didn't live in a subdivision surrounded by them. My old apartment had woods nearby that I would never think of sauntering through, though.

That said they're still kind of scary and I'd be lying if I said the whole prospect didn't mostly appeal to me as a horror fan.

[Unless]

Regrettably there are no forests near where I'm living now, though I used to greatly enjoy ambling through them on my own. Bears weren't something I had to concern myself with in Ireland, so this was usually at night as people rarely went for walks about then. The point of the walk for me is activity and solitude in one, and often I took headphones. Occasionally there would be a local drunken patrol, but they tended to be pretty loud and so easily avoidable. I knew the lay of the land relatively well and so rarely got lost, but on the rare occasion I did (or just when I felt like it) I'd just camp out for the night and make my way back in daylight.

Before living there, I used to just walk through the countryside sometimes, but this was a choice between alongside a road, or through owned fields. While I lived with them, I used to frequently go on walks with the family through woods during the day, though this was usually in a place that was a drive away and satisfied a different role in my head.
Now I'm living in a much more urban area and don't feel safe walking about at night; anyway there's nowhere nice to walk. So that's sad.