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Bayard Henderson Christy. Going Afoot: A book on walking
Going Afoot: A book on walking
Table of Contents
HOW TO WALK
I. HOW TO WALK
Wearing Apparel
Equipment
Care of Body and Equipment
Companions
WHEN TO WALK
THE VAGABOND[2]
II. WHEN TO WALK
At What Season
The Hours of the Day
Speed and Distance
Stunt Walking
Championship Walking—World’s Records
Competitive Walking
WHERE TO WALK
TREES
III. WHERE TO WALK
Choice of Surroundings
Nature of Country
The Goal and the Road
Maps
Walking by Compass
WALKING CLUBS IN AMERICA
UPHILL
IV. WALKING CLUBS IN AMERICA
The Appalachian Mountain Club
The Green Mountain Club
The American Alpine Club
Walking Clubs of New York
Wanderlust
The Pittsburgh Health Club
The Prairie Club
The Sierra Club
The Mountaineers
Associated Mountaineering Clubs of North America
ORGANIZATION AND CONDUCT OF WALKING CLUBS
OVERFLOW
V. ORGANIZATION AND CONDUCT OF WALKING CLUBS
The Activities of a Walking Club
Development of the Pedestrian Resources of Some Particular Region
Trail Making
Map Making
Publishing of data
Maintaining a bureau
Conducting hikes
Rules for hiking
Club Policy
A Club Constitution
BY-LAWS. Article I
Article II
Article III. MEMBERSHIP
Article IV. ADMINISTRATION
Article V. ELECTION OF OFFICERS
Article VI. MEETINGS
Article VII. AMENDMENTS
Juvenile Clubs
The League of Walkers
BIBLIOGRAPHY
THE LAKE ISLE OF INNISFREE
BIBLIOGRAPHY
FOOTNOTES
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Bayard Henderson Christy
Published by Good Press, 2019
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These notes on costume are intended to cover the subject, and to serve as reminder and advice to those contemplating walking tours of all sorts. But the practice of walking as an art and recreation does not by any means require such elaborate preparations. Otherwise, the devotees would be few. For an extended tour, or even for a holiday excursion, one may well give consideration to these many matters; but for a Saturday afternoon walk, it will suffice to put on proper footgear, leave one’s overcoat at home, carry a sweater if need be, use forethought about details, and be ready to betake one’s self from office to highway, with assurance of comfort and enjoyment. And beyond this, there still remains to be spoken of the daily round of walking from home to work and back again, from office to restaurant at noon. This daily regimen of walking requires no special costume—admits of none, indeed. It may be that as one is thoughtful to take more steps on the routine path of life, he will give more careful attention to the shoes he buys and to clothes. But let no one close his mind to the subject with the too hasty conclusion that walking requires an impossible amount of special clothing. Any one who cares to, can make any needed modification of his ordinary business costume, without making himself conspicuous, and probably with gain in comfort and consequent well-being.
On a one-day excursion, a man will walk unburdened; and, on exceptional longer trips, pack-horses may carry the baggage from one camping ground to another; but, ordinarily, on a tour continuing day after day, one will carry on his own back all that he requires. Should his route lie through settled country, where shelter and bed are to be found in farmhouse or wayside inn, the man will travel with lighter load, and with greater freedom and enjoyment; if he must carry his blanket, too, walking becomes harder work. It may be that one will spend his vacation in the woods, and journey partly afoot, partly by canoe. In that case, a good part of his walking will be the arduous toting of impedimenta (canoe included) across portages, from one lake or stream to another. Proportionately as his burden is heavier, the sojourner in the wilderness will be disposed so to plan his trip that he may stop for successive nights at favorite camping places. From these he will make shorter trips, and, unencumbered, climb mountains, perhaps, or explore other parts of the country about.
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