Feral: I truly enjoyed your international thru hike of the Via Alpinia. Thanks for taking us along. I head into the Sierras August 3rd for a week near Rae Lakes area. Sawmill Pass to Kearsage pass. Have a great time for the rest of your trip.
Appreciate your thoughtful reflection and a reminder to do listening likewise. Fun to see your picture with the Freddy Mercury statue, and the flowers, the pretty flowers!
Deep thoughts. You are so right, in today's world, we don't take time to simply listen. I will heed your advice and do that. Love the flowers at the end and you with Freddy!
I live in the country. I love going for early morning walks in town. Birds are singing and the town is waking up. Some home windows are open and there’s the occasional clang of a pan coming out of a cupboard for breakfast prep. Folks are leaving their homes, kids in tow, headed to daycare and work. College students are heading to summer classes, some walking and chatting with a friend and others on a dead run perhaps having overslept. Other folks are visiting outside at a coffee shop…all while the scent of cereal products being produced at the local Malt-O-Meal/Post facility waft through the air. I enjoy walking in the country but also love the sounds of a sleepy town waking up while I think…or don’t think and just listen. Thanks for sharing your adventures and thoughts … have a great day!
Meditations in nature are some of the most powerful and revealing times you can have outdoors. Listening, really listening without distractions. There is so much to hear. I try to do it regularly on my early morning walks.
The Swiss say Freddy Mercury recorded and settled in Montreux where he learned to appreciate the peace and quiet. Thanks for a tour of the Via Alpina. It's a magical place. Cheers!
That was a good, reflective day. Congratulations on completing your walk/hike/journey! I have many memories of various reflective moments where the sounds of nature were my “music”. The most recent that comes to mind, a couple of years ago, is of the night I spent below Lonesome Lake in the Cirque of the Clouds of the Wind River Range. It was early September and the Elk were active. I was camped very close to the headwaters of the Middle Fork of the Popo Agie River. At that point in its journey it is more of a wide and fast flowing stream. I was enjoying its song not long before dusk and a bull Elk bugles very near by. I tried to get a look at it but could never lay eyes on it. It bugled two or three more times and then I suppose moved on. Its bugle echoing off the peaks around me in that cirque at dusk was a unique experience I’ll always remember. It made the climb up on to Lizard Head Plateau the next day in a very strong wind worth the effort. Another day I’ll never forget for different reasons. Take care.
15 years ago, in the middle of nowhere, in a pasture in Southern Chile, the tour guide with whom we had rented horses from (my horse was named Pelucho which means naked in Spanish of all things), said to close my eyes, and just listen. He said I would remember this moment forever, and I have.
Good morning Feral 👋🏻 Hope you're doing well my friend 😊 Have a wonderful day 🌞 God Bless 🙏🏻 Appreciate you always 🫶🏻
@@db.mc2 Thank you so much!
Feral: I truly enjoyed your international thru hike of the Via Alpinia. Thanks for taking us along. I head into the Sierras August 3rd for a week near Rae Lakes area. Sawmill Pass to Kearsage pass. Have a great time for the rest of your trip.
Thanks for the kind words, Jeff. Your trip sounds fantastic! Rae Lakes are awesome!
Appreciate your thoughtful reflection and a reminder to do listening likewise. Fun to see your picture with the Freddy Mercury statue, and the flowers, the pretty flowers!
@@sking1459 Montreux was an interesting, somewhat incongruous, place.
Thanks for sharing!
Deep thoughts. You are so right, in today's world, we don't take time to simply listen. I will heed your advice and do that. Love the flowers at the end and you with Freddy!
@@h-lorolltide92 Thanks!
I live in the country. I love going for early morning walks in town. Birds are singing and the town is waking up. Some home windows are open and there’s the occasional clang of a pan coming out of a cupboard for breakfast prep. Folks are leaving their homes, kids in tow, headed to daycare and work. College students are heading to summer classes, some walking and chatting with a friend and others on a dead run perhaps having overslept. Other folks are visiting outside at a coffee shop…all while the scent of cereal products being produced at the local Malt-O-Meal/Post facility waft through the air. I enjoy walking in the country but also love the sounds of a sleepy town waking up while I think…or don’t think and just listen. Thanks for sharing your adventures and thoughts … have a great day!
@@dianel8530 Thanks, Diane! I can smell the Malt-O-Meal in my mind! And, yes, it is a treat to live in a small town!
Meditations in nature are some of the most powerful and revealing times you can have outdoors. Listening, really listening without distractions. There is so much to hear. I try to do it regularly on my early morning walks.
@@jerryayres5744 We few. We happy few. We band of brothers.
Thank you for sharing your awareness Sir.
@@karlk9316 It was a pleasure!
The Swiss say Freddy Mercury recorded and settled in Montreux where he learned to appreciate the peace and quiet.
Thanks for a tour of the Via Alpina. It's a magical place. Cheers!
It's been my pleasure!
That was a good, reflective day. Congratulations on completing your walk/hike/journey! I have many memories of various reflective moments where the sounds of nature were my “music”. The most recent that comes to mind, a couple of years ago, is of the night I spent below Lonesome Lake in the Cirque of the Clouds of the Wind River Range. It was early September and the Elk were active. I was camped very close to the headwaters of the Middle Fork of the Popo Agie River. At that point in its journey it is more of a wide and fast flowing stream. I was enjoying its song not long before dusk and a bull Elk bugles very near by. I tried to get a look at it but could never lay eyes on it. It bugled two or three more times and then I suppose moved on. Its bugle echoing off the peaks around me in that cirque at dusk was a unique experience I’ll always remember. It made the climb up on to Lizard Head Plateau the next day in a very strong wind worth the effort. Another day I’ll never forget for different reasons. Take care.
@@wanttogo1958 Thanks for sharing. You can paint a memorable mental picture!
15 years ago, in the middle of nowhere, in a pasture in Southern Chile, the tour guide with whom we had rented horses from (my horse was named Pelucho which means naked in Spanish of all things), said to close my eyes, and just listen. He said I would remember this moment forever, and I have.
Great story!
Congrats on making it to the end of your beautiful, amazing hike (and for making it to the Freddie Mercury statue)!
Thanks, Dano!
We all want to play with the puppy; not so much with the mosquito!
@@celiareed1402 Hahahahaha!