Countdown to Walk 1!

Hey, The time is drawing near. I have been reading lots of guides to local walking and I am getting excited about doing some new and fun walks this coming year. I think my first question is how to start the year off. I am thinking since I don't plan to party New Years Eve that maybe I should do a midnight walk. Maybe to a viewpoint near home with a bottle of champagne in my coat...Hmmmm. I am thinking of planning an alternative to a pub crawl as well for my actual 50th. A wine and walk!! Open to everyone's fun ideas!!

Hello Friends and Family,

As many of you know 2016 will be the year of my 5oth birthday.  As I approach a half century here on earth, I have been trying to come up with a way to acknowledge and celebrate this milestone.  I am not a big party person, always feeling I never get the chance to talk to everyone , I am already blowing my travel budget escorting Jonah and his choir to New York in March and I always do things that I want and have no desire to jump out of a plane so I have been searching for something meaningful to do that I can share with my friends and family.  After much thought I came up with the idea of doing 5o unique walks during the 2016 calendar year.  While I go for a walk almost every day and often venture into the local forest parks and beaches for a stroll, I like the challenge of finding roughly 1 different walk to do ever week.  Over the course of the year I hope to get a chance to reconnect with friends, spend some quality time with my family including my dog and see some places in and around Victoria ( for economy's sake I am focusing on Vancouver and the Gulf Islands and the lower mainland but I am keeping an open mind)  that maybe I have never seen before.

Right now I am at the planning stage!! Love planning!  I am compiling a list of walks and friends that would like to walk with me.  I would love to join with you at one of your favourite places, walk in a charity fundraiser that has meaning for you or take on some sort of challenge.  I would like to walk with individuals and groups, I would like to do one 50K walk and I would love a walk where we could get at least 50 of us out at once.  Walks with coffee,walks with wine, walks with a bit of a climb......

List your suggestions and invitations in the comments.  

Some ideas already out there are,

Women's snow shoe walk and overnight at Mt. Washington (thanks Erin)
Grouse Grind (walking not running:)
Olympic Mountains
Mt. Maxwell
Cowichan River Walk

I also have the Day Hikes Vancouver Island Edition 4 and will probably do every single one of them so East Sooke, Thetis, etc.

My camera is going to go with me and I will be blogging throughout the year and making a scrapbook/journal cataloging the weather, companions and challenges along the way.

Hope you will join me!  

Liz 

PS.  Please feel free to share this post on Facebook or anywhere.  I am open to all ideas and hope maybe to inspire others to get out there.

The beginning!

"Details of the many walks I made along the crest have blurred, now, into a pleasing tapestry of grass and space and sunlight."
-  Colin Fletcher