Slow Routes
Somebody repaints those waymarks, and it’s usually a volunteer
Waymarking looks like permanent infrastructure and is in fact a maintained system with an owner, a standard…
Slow Routes
Journeys where the travelling is the point rather than the cost of arriving.
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Slow Routes
Walking out of a city takes most of a morning and explains its edge
The transition from centre to countryside on foot passes through a zone that almost nobody visits…
Slow Routes
The gap between one room and the next is the part nobody plans
Checking out in the morning and into somewhere else in the afternoon leaves several unstructured hours with…
Slow Routes
A staffed mountain refuge is a supply operation with beds attached
The huts that make a multi-day mountain route possible are logistics enterprises first, and nearly every…
Slow Routes
The right moment to leave is usually before a place runs out
A stay follows a fairly consistent curve from disorientation to competence to diminishing return, and…
Slow Routes
Winter does not close an overland route so much as narrow it
Cold-season travel over land is governed by reduced frequency, larger consequences and infrastructure built…
Slow Routes
A journey with a fixed end date should carry its slack at the end
Delay accumulates along a multi-leg route rather than averaging out, so a buffer only protects anything if…
Slow Routes
Freedom to roam and a right of way are two different legal answers
Whether you may walk across open country depends on whether the law grants access to land in general or…