Category: Walking

Climbing, though it’s typically seen as a “free-spirited” type of pastime, requires an entire lot greater than a bottle of water and a pair of climbing poles. Certainly, with climbing’s rising reputation and the elevated likelihood of unpredictable and hostile climate, organisation is vital so that you can get pleasure from a protected, stress-free journey. …

I wrote a couple of kayak and stroll of the mountain Slioch within the Scottish Highlands within the June 2023 version of The Scots Journal. When you loved the article you should buy future magazines or order a subscription. Slioch by way of Loch Maree When returning to a mountain, I at all times choose …

Posted July 12, 2023 in Weblog A brand new roundup of Walkability Wins. This week we’re showcasing the motion by highlighting extra locations throughout the nation advancing pedestrian-friendly agendas. Birmingham, Alabama A $21 million grant from the US Division of Transportation will help numerous tasks that may make the town extra walkable and related. These …

Posted July 11, 2023 in Weblog An in depth sidewalk stock of a neighborhood’s sidewalk community is a important instrument for assembly ADA necessities and creating extra equitable communities. Given the dearth of unified requirements, practitioners could face challenges in conducting and utilizing a list for fairness and accessibility planning concerns. PBIC and America Walks’ …

The climate forecast had been an amazing deal extra promising than the early morning rain I awoke to at Glenmore, close to Aviemore, on Sunday. My pal Rob and I had an extended hike deliberate to succeed in the Corbett Creag Mhor and we didn’t fancy a full day of dreich. We determined that maybe …

When Katy Boocock, of Inverness, was approaching her sixtieth birthday she determined she would really like an enormous celebration with mates. However reasonably than internet hosting a conventional social gathering like many different individuals may, the eager walker and runner launched into a formidable self-propelled spherical of 130 of Scotland’s mianland mountains often known as …

Posted July 6, 2023 in Weblog communicate up in assist of recent USDOT laws USDOT desires to listen to from you! There will not be one, however TWO alternatives to talk up supporting new laws to make automobiles safer for pedestrians.  Proper now, America’s prime site visitors security authority has two proposals on the desk: …

I can’t even recall the final time I reached the summits of the 2 iconic northern Munros of Conival and Ben Extra Assynt. I consider it was greater than a decade in the past and I don’t assume the climate was that nice. In any case, I usually discover that it takes a second outing …

Posted July 3, 2023 in Weblog Now Erica Gilmore is an elected official and an America Walks Board Member By Erica Gilmore I’m proud and honored to be a board member for America Walks, a number one nationwide nonprofit, that advances secure, equitable, accessible locations and areas to stroll and transfer by giving individuals and …

A Scottish photographer, Ed Smith has been named as a finalist within the Sport class of the Affiliation of Photographers’ Pictures Awards this week. His picture “Alpine Begin” captures an excessive winter scene as mountaineers ascend excessive snow slopes earlier than first gentle on a route among the many dramatic mountains of Glen Coe. Ed, …