After the end of 2020, I haven’t expected much from myself when it comes to my physical activity at the start of 2021. The truth is: I quite surprised myself. Weather being (so far) relatively cooperative is a strong factor, but not the main one.
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Hiking: after a long break
Because of the autumn wave of restrictions, and my eventuall illness, I’ve taken almost 6 weeks break from any outdoor activity. So, resuming it was taken with a pair of walk in the nearby suburbs.
Continue readingHiking: Autumn’s rainy welcome
After the sun-filled first half of September, I had a three-day trip planned for the end of the month, belonging to Autumn already. And the weather matched it.
Continue readingHiking: Summer’s end
You might’ve noticed a lack of hiking-realted posts through the summer, and that had a solid reason, but I managed to get back outdoors by the end of August.
Continue readingA walk in the moonlight
I’ve considered doing many strange things, not only when it comes to hiking. A night hike wasn’t really among them. How this spontaneous idea came to be is a story for itself, but there are some other ‘lessons’ I’ve learned from this unexpected experience.
Continue readingJuly hiking: the big (mis)adventure part 2
I’m returning to the post from the previous week with the second part. So, let’s get to it (and the photos, of course!)
Continue readingJuly hiking: The big (mis)adventure part 1
I’ve held off writing the usual monthly hiking retrospective for several reasons. One of them being that I haven’t passed this self-imposed test nowhere nearly as well as I’d like to. The second being that the rainy July didn’t help my mood to sort through photos.
Continue readingMay hiking: the month of water
May has passed by and thus it’s time to look back at my hikes during that month. While April was about rocks, May was about water.
Continue readingApril hiking: lone wolf extraordinaire
With the COVID-based restrictions, hiking became the only unbanned outdoor sport in my country for a while, provided you were alone or in a group only with household members. And I, as someone who often wanders alone, had no issue with such a limitation.
Continue readingHiking: the 2020 madness
This year seems to be weird world-wide, but for a while, the only way it impacted me as someone living in the central Europe was the unnaturaly warm weather.
Until February, when things went downhill. And suddenly, the fact this is my worst start of a year hiking-wise in a few years is not as troubling.
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