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Take a walk in the park. Or explore a forest, gorge, campground, even a historic site. Spend a week or a weekend. Go biking, hiking, fishing, boating, hunting or cross-country skiing. Or just relax and enjoy the most beautiful scenery in the Northeast! This is a guide to the state and national parks throughout Maine, the wildlife refuges, nature and bike trails, historic sites, facilities and activities at each site, and contact information.

Walking is a grеаt wау tо imрrоvе оr mаintаin your overall hеаlth. Just Power Walking gives the listener basic concepts on how walking can help you lose weight and fat. Juѕt 30 minutеѕ еvеrу dау can inсrеаѕе саrdiоvаѕсulаr fitnеѕѕ, ѕtrеngthеn bоnеѕ, rеduсе еxсеѕѕ body fаt, and bооѕt muѕсlе power and endurance.

In Wild Winter, John D. Burns, best-selling author of The Last Hillwalker and Bothy Tales, sets out to rediscover Scotland’s mountains, remote places and wildlife in the darkest and stormiest months. He traverses the country from the mouth of the River Ness to the Isle of Mull, from remote Sutherland to the Cairngorms, in search of rutting red deer, pupping seals, minke whales, beavers, pine martens, mountain hares, and otters.

Based on the 506-page full guide to the great American national parks, how to avoid the crowds, walking tours, facilities, and how to get there, this audio edition focuses on the major parks of California: Death Valley, Lassen Volcanic National Park, Sequoia, King's Canyon, and Yosemite. This audiobook includes information on accommodations and dining, camping and tours.

Walking is the most natural means of getting around under your own steam and the only sustained dynamic exercise that is possible for nearly all of us to participate in. No special skills or equipment are required, and you can do it anywhere. Walking is flexible enough to be accommodated into occupational and domestic routines, as well as for leisure or specific fitness training. Exploring the evolutionary and historical importance of walking, this book uncovers how the principles that motivated people to walk in the past are even more relevant in the 21st century.

50 Things to Know Before Going on a Hike by Jonai Republica offers an approach to help you be prepared enough to have a fun, safe and meaningful hike. Most audiobooks on hiking tell you the authors’ trail stories, mishaps and lessons learned during their own grand adventures, as well as tips on the best gears to bring. Although there's nothing wrong with that, it is equally important for beginners to know what to do before and during the hike to make the best out of the experience. Based on knowledge from the world's leading experts, the best outdoors experience comes to those who are prepared.

Do you want to have more energy, enjoy a healthier lifestyle and live longer? Have you ever wanted to begin a health, fitness and exercise program but did not know how and where to begin?" Health and Fitness for Beginners": Discover How to Assess Your Fitness Level and Create a Personal Exercise Plan will help you to answer these questions and much, much more! This simple easy to read health and fitness book will help set you on the path to a more productive and healthy lifestyle. "Health and Fitness for Beginners" will help you: Discover the benefits of a health and physical fitness ...

Walking is a form of exercise that’s available to most people. You don’t need any special equipment other than some supportive walking shoes. And there’s no need for an expensive membership at a fitness center. I wrote this book to break down the myths about physical, mental, and spiritual walking, to share the successes and challenges of my lifelong walking journey, to provide strategies and tools to embrace different types of walking at every age and stage of life, and to help teach others about building physical, mental, and emotional resilience and inner strength.

In the winter of 2018 I returned to Spain to finish the 500 mile, million step, pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. This is the story of my winter journey. Walking the Camino in winter has unique challenges as well as benefits. The lessons learned in this book may be useful to anyone considering a pilgrimage on the Camino de Santiago, or any long-distance walk.

Power Walking è un programma strutturato per farti tornare in forma con il Power Walking dopo sole quattro settimane di allenamento...

Fuelled by a degree of mid-life crisis and the need to escape, albeit temporarily, the dull routine of modern life, David and Rob set out to walk from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean, taking in French villages, beautiful scenery, and one of the most spectacular mountain ranges in Europe. Just about perfect – if you can put aside the inevitable conflict, drama, and unexpected tedium that results from two men spending over seven solid weeks in each other’s company!

Nach über 45.000 Kilometern zu Fuß gilt Christine Thürmer als die Expertin fürs Langstreckenwandern und hat Antworten auf alle Fragen rund ums Weitwandern: Warum bereite ich mich besser am Computer als im Fitnessstudio auf eine Tour vor? Wieso sollte ich einen Müllsack mitnehmen? Welche Probleme können mich unterwegs erwarten? Und was an diesem Leben macht so unfassbar glücklich?

On the eve of her 60th birthday, Nina Shengold embarks on a challenge: to walk the path surrounding the Catskills’ glorious Ashokan Reservoir every day for a year, at all times of day and in all kinds of weather, trying to find something new every time. Armed with lively curiosity, infectious enthusiasm, and renewed stubbornness, she hits the path every day with all five senses wide open, searching for details that glint. As Shengold explores the secrets of this spectacular place, she rediscovers the glories of solitude and an expanded community, both human and animal.

For Linda Cracknell, exposure to wind, rock, mist, and salt water is integral to her writing process. She follows Susan Sontag’s advice to “Love words, agonise over sentences, and pay attention to the world,” observing and writing her landscapes from the particulars of each moment. In this varied essay collection, Linda backpacks on a small island that is connected to the mainland only at low tide.

Freddy, Phil and Don are three grumpy old men, travelling at various speeds in the slow lane of retirement, at a loss to understand the mad modern world around them.Their chosen method of escape from all this is a shared weekly hike in the Peak District, come gale, hail, snow or torrential rain. They pass the time bumping into colourful and eccentric locals, but their real passion is bickering among themselves.

Losing weight is a goal every individual on planet Earth aspires to achieve and with the right mind-set and approach it is a lot easier than we think to obtain this dream. Cathy Hope aims to help listeners lose weight by applying a simplistic view that does not involve a gym membership, diet pills, or extra costs. Her book covers the easiest way to lose weight by following a 40-day program that includes a regular, brisk walking plan, easy to make recipes, and a BMI chart.

In January 2006, a month or two after my father died, I thought I saw him again - a momentary impression of an old man, a little stooped, setting off for a walk in his characteristic fawn corduroys and shabby quilted jacket. After teenage rifts it was walking that brought us closer as father and son, and this ghost of Dad has been walking at my elbow since his death, as I have ruminated on his great love of walking, his prodigious need to do it - and how and why I walk myself.

Take a walk in the park. Or explore a forest, gorge, campground, even a historic site. Spend a week or a weekend. Go biking, hiking, fishing, boating, hunting or cross-country skiing. Or just relax and enjoy the most beautiful scenery in the Northeast! This is a guide to the state and national parks throughout Massachusetts, the wildlife refuges, nature and bike trails, historic sites, facilities and activities at each site, and contact information.

In the form of several journeys, beginning in January 2019, Neil Ansell returns for solitary walks to the New Forest in Hampshire, close to where he was born. With beautiful sightings and observations of birds, trees, butterflies, insects and landscape, this is also a reflective memoir on childhood, on the history of one of the most ancient and important natural habitats in the United Kingdom and on the Gypsies who lived there for centuries - and were subsequently expelled to neighbouring cities.

For over four decades, Cameron McNeish has chronicled Scotland's majestic landscapes and the outdoor communities who inhabit them. While much has changed, especially in terms of conservation and access, the hills themselves remain little altered, as do the reasons people visit them. In this collection of essays and diary entries, Cameron shines the light of experience on memory, and renews his vision, keen to share his insights with the many people who love Scotland's outdoors.