Hiking quotes
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"Especially with the signing of riders with climbing abilities and the new arrival of Tyler Hamilton, who has the strength and ability to become a great leader for the big tours. All in all, I feel this is a very complete team."
"I did Star 80, which was a magnificent experience as well, but still, I was at the height of my career at the beginning. Then I had to jump down the ladder and climb back up again, which I didn't understand. That was very hard."
"From thought to thought, from mountain peak to mountain. Love leads me on; for I can never still My trouble on the world's well beaten ways."
"I would walk along the quais when I had finished work or when I was trying to think something out. It was easier to think if I was walking and doing something or seeing people doing something that they understood."
"If you want to know if your brain is flabby, feel your legs."
"As I went walking That ribbon of highway I saw above me The endless skyway I saw below me The lonesome valley This land was made for you and me."
"Were we, also, hiking along some cosmic journal page? Were the events about us all part of a message we could understand, if only we found the right perspective from which to read them? Somehow, with our long series of miracles, I thought so."
"Meandering leads to perfection."
"I can remember walking as a child. It was not customary to say you were fatigued. It was customary to complete the goal of the expedition."
"There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury."
"Every walk is a sort of crusade, preached by some Peter the Hermit in us."
"There's some end at last for the man who follows a path; mere rambling is interminable."
"I actually love woodworking. I'm just getting into it. And I love playing guitar, I'm a big movie aficionado, and I like hiking."
"Good walking leaves no track behind it."
"The path up and down is one and the same."
"While I'm in L.A. I always make time for my favorite activity which is hiking. The trails in California are amazing, as they are always challenging, and I never get bored from all the beautiful scenery."
"Going down (descending), I realized, was like taking hold of the loose strand of yard on a sweater you'd just spent hours knitting and pulling it until the entire sweater unraveled into a pile of string. Hiking the PCT was the maddening effort of knitting that sweater and unraveling it over and over again. As if everything gained was inevitably lost."
"Hiking the PCT was the maddening effort of knitting that sweater and unraveling it over and over again. As if everything gained was inevitably lost"
"For in this walk, this voyage, it is yourself, the profound history of your 'self,' that now as always you encounter."
"There's no regimen. There's no personal trainer. I love to go hiking because it's an experience. If I need to gain stamina for a tour, I will run every single night on the treadmill, but I don't necessarily like being at the gym."
