{"id":4347,"date":"2011-06-10T06:51:13","date_gmt":"2011-06-10T10:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=4347"},"modified":"2011-06-10T06:51:13","modified_gmt":"2011-06-10T10:51:13","slug":"walk-it-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/06\/10\/walk-it-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Walk it off"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I’ve fallen in love with long walks.\u00a0\u00a0 This morning, in an audio postcard, I describe one of my favorite leg-stretchers, the old road in Newcomb that leads to the Santanoni Great Camp.<\/p>\n

But there are nearly endless opportunities for taking flat-land strolls, some of them leading deep into the back country.\u00a0 The Whitney Wilderness area offers a complex network of old logging roads.<\/p>\n

Then there’s the old rail bed that leads north from Saranac Lake toward Malone, which passes through the lush Bloomingdale Bog.<\/p>\n

No doubt going for a long walk can seem, well, fairly pedestrian when compared with a trek into the High Peaks or an expedition along the Northville-Placid Trail.<\/p>\n

But one of the beauties of the Adirondacks — and the North Country in general — is that we have great, accessible things to do right out our back doors.<\/p>\n

Sometimes it’s just nice to pull on the sneakers and head off for a ramble along one of the sparsely-trafficked country roads near our camp in Westport, or stroll around Moody Pond in Saranac Lake.<\/p>\n

Walking can also be kind of a blissful thing.\u00a0 There’s a rhythm to it.\u00a0 Years ago, in one of my Buddhist phases, I spent weeks in a monastery in Malaysia doing walking meditation.<\/p>\n

Those saffron-robed monks would have loved the road to Santanoni.<\/p>\n

How about you?\u00a0 Is there a favorite walk in your corner of the North Country?\u00a0 An undiscovered gem you’re willing to share.\u00a0 As always comments welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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