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Re: I walked across Luxembourg

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Post by tkgally »

ninjin wrote: post #56
famahar wrote: post #42

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Started in Hachiōji and ended at the start of Chiba prefecture. The heat made it tough. I was thinking about doing a walk from Tamagawa station to Yokohama this weekend. I love seeing what's between all the stations and building up a new mental map of the area.

Indeed, I was about to comment on it being a lovely and enjoyable idea to stroll through Tokyo. But doing so with peak temperatures in the mid-30s may make it much more challenging as I know I personally would need to dive into convenience stores now and then just to cool down. Seconding building a mental map of the city, although I did so by biking for many many years. Only took a few weeks to feel confident about g…

Yes, building a mental map was one of my original motivations for walking from Yokohama to Tokyo. When I did the walk for the first time, in 2006, I was working in Tokyo and had traveled between it and my home in Yokohama hundreds of times, but only by train. I worried that, if I were in Tokyo when a big earthquake struck, I wouldn’t be sure about the best route for walking home. After walking the other direction a couple of times, I stopped worrying about that.

On the day when I could have actually put my newly acquired geographical sense to good use—March 11, 2011—I happened to leave for Osaka a few hours before the quake struck. All of my colleagues either walked home or slept in the office that night, while I had a comfortable hotel room in Namba.

Re: I walked across Luxembourg

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Post by unixhero »

widforss wrote: post #23
unixhero wrote: post #18

Trekking poles are not necessary. Focus on stride, balance and core strength.

Trekking poles are not necessary. But they are useful, and he obviously see a potential use for them. Your comment comes across as somewhat rude.

I can live with that.

Re: I walked across Luxembourg

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Post by unixhero »

globular-toast wrote: post #22
unixhero wrote: post #18

Trekking poles are not necessary. Focus on stride, balance and core strength.

Where have you walked? How far? How much weight do you carry? How old are you?

For days in the Norwegian wilderness, Australian outback, Japanese mountains.

Re: I walked across Luxembourg

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Post by benoliver999 »

prmoustache wrote: post #48
benoliver999 wrote: post #14

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Yeah it's not 'that' small lol

That is not big either. Most people walking thesantiago de compostela pilgrimage route from the Spanish border, Madrid or Lisbon do walk much more.

I drove the pilgrimage, and there was loads of parking!

Re: I walked across Luxembourg

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Post by shoobs »

draven wrote: post #39
shoobs wrote: post #2

A few months back I dragged myself away from Tears of the Kingdom and went on a four day hike across the entirety of Luxembourg. I planned my route using open source GIS tools, and did the cross country walk over a long weekend back in June.

I see you used QGis. Last time I tried it there was no easy way of plugging a router. I switched to QMapShack. It's a bit more complicated to use the IGN service for the maps (whereas it works out of the box with QGis) but there are several options for routers. The offline one (Routino) requires downloading data but it works well. I use it all the time to plan 2-5 days treks in the French Alps. Having the actual elev…

Thanks for the recommendation. I used KML files and manually connected them, but a router would've been handy. I'll give it a shot.

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Post by tkgally »

famahar wrote: post #42
tkgally wrote: post #28

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That’s quite a walk! Where did you start and end? For about ten years, I walked every New Year’s Day from my home near Yokohama Station to somewhere in Tokyo—Ikebukuro or Ueno or Asakusa, about 35 kilometers one way. Very memorable, as you say. I don’t think I would do it in the summer, though.

Started in Hachiōji and ended at the start of Chiba prefecture. The heat made it tough. I was thinking about doing a walk from Tamagawa station to Yokohama this weekend. I love seeing what's between all the stations and building up a new mental map of the area.

You might want to start in Yokohama and walk north to Tamagawa Station. Then you won’t have the sun in your eyes so much. (That factor is more important to consider in the winter, though, when the sun is low and the sky is often very clear.)

Enjoy your walk! I did that route only once, and it might be the nicest one. My usual route was parallel to the Keihin Tohoku Line—Tsurumi, Kawasaki, Kamata, Omori, Shinagawa, etc. A bit industrial, but not bad on New Year’s Day.

There aren’t many possible routes because there are very few bridges over the Tama River.

Re: I walked across Luxembourg

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Post by shoobs »

Elho wrote: post #60

wauw, you inspired me. I dont live that far from luxembourg i'm planning to hike your trail. i'm planning on doing it with a tent in my backpack. Did you came across some official campgrounds? Or is it legal to camp wild in luxembourg? Thanks

There are multiple official camping grounds and caravan parks on the route. Unfortunately wild camping isn't allowed anywhere. I know that some people still try it, and probably so long as you're somewhere off trail, camp late and leave early nobody will bother you.

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Post by brabel »

mcv wrote: post #34
dagw wrote: post #17

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Trains are probably a better choice for such trips in Europe. Having 'done' Europe both by train and by car, the trips end up being very different. Trains are great if you want to hit the major cities. With a car you can visit all kinds of small villages, rural areas and interesting nature that you cannot really reach by public transport.

We did a carless vacation this year, and picked Switzerland, which is absolutely perfect for it. Trains are actually better to reach some places than cars are. Unfortunately to get there, we had to travel through Germany, and their ICE network is a complete mess of confusion and delay. They do seem to be good at keeping the total delay just within an hour (it was 55 minutes both times), so they don't have to pay back…

I did a similar trip between Prague, Krumlov, Salzburg and Vienna, with a few other stops in between, by bus and train. We saw a lot of things by just walking around and using local transport lines, which include stops in the middle of nowhere. The area between southern Czech and Salzburg is just amazingly beautiful. Of course, Prague and Vienna are also amazing cities to visit, but that everyone already knows.

We only caught trains in Austria, and they were extremely punctual!

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Post by SSLy »

mcv wrote: post #35
BitterPanda wrote: post #26

Love it! I use organic maps on a daily basis and it is an awesome tool even if you're just commuting.

I have it too, but often forget to use it in favour of Google Maps, but Google Maps is terrible for anything not in a car or train, and OSM always has fantastic detail for hiking trails. Every vacation I find myself switching to Organic Maps. This vacation it helped us find a trail to a really beautiful waterfall in Switzerland.

Google Maps whole use case is finding restaurants and pubs in new places, and that's about it.
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