THOREAU, THE woodsy philosopher, main-
tained that one should walk at least four miles
a day. As he lived before the personal vehicle,
and made his living writing about the birds
and bees, and didn’t have to do the dishes let
alone make the beds, it was the sort of pon-
tification he could get away with.

He added a rider, which I
thought a bit cheeky, to the
effect that women and
children tend to wander,
rather than walk pur-
posefully.

Of course his walking was
done on country roads and
sheltered paths, not dodging
impatient left-turners and
absorbed skate-boarcers.

It’s a bit more difficult in
this neck of the woods,
though we do have some
lovely walks laid out in :
parks and by the sea. But
we can’t always get to the
parks and the seaside.

Life in our times is more
difficult than old Thoreau
ever wotted.

But remember that study
of us seniors, the one that
underlined the value of bet-
ter and more compa-
nionable feeding arrange-
ments? It also recommends
that further advantage
comes from walking, and
sharing those walks with a
friend.

Their benchmark is a lit-
tle more realistic — they

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want you to walk nine miles
each week. Thoreau to the
contrary notwithstanding.

That’s a mile a day plus
an extra one Saturday and
Sunday. Well, you could do
it with one-and-a-quarter
every day, and cheat a bit, J
guess. Anyway, we all agree
it’s a Good Thing to do, as
Pooh would say, but how
do you tell how far is a
mile’s worth?

When I was younger, I

established that | walked at
a speed of three miles an
hour, and that made
measuring easy, but I’ve
slowed down. Slowed up?

Anyway, taking all this
advice personally, I can say
1’m OK in the eating
department, being the chief
cook and bottle-washer
with a steady border, but I
would like to get going ona
program of good walking
habits too.

But how far is a mile in
these parts?

I make a call to the
Engineering Department at
City Hall. They should
know all those things.

Well, they do. I told
them I was a bit long in the
tooth and so preferred my
walking to be on the flat —
oh I could stand a gentle
rise here and there, but in
this up and down terrain of
ours, I really prefer east-,
and-west routes as opposed
to north-and-south routes.

They’re easier on the
wind.

They took that into con-
sideration, and wanted to
know my starting-point so
they could give me the
straight goods. They then
went away to sharpen their
calipers,

You know, of course,
that our east-west blocks
are the longer, by quite a .

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bit, as a rule, but then when
you look at the city map
you see blocks of all lengths
and on a really crazy-quilt
design.

This side-hill wasn’t one
to fall easily into the
engineer's popular tidy grid.
.. Anyway, they kindly
plotted it out, and | now
know that if I set off from
my front door, in the first
block east of Lonsdale on
the top-side of the Boule-
vard, and strike oul due
east to Moody Street, then I
shall have accomplished a
mile,

Great. All I have to do,
now, is time the trip one
way and I'll have a handle
on my speed. Then, any
which way, I can set out
east or west and govern the
distance covered with a
clear conscience.

Sunday last we drove in
the direction of Coquitlam
and walked the dike beside
the Pitt River. That’s the
kind of walk one would
wish for every day, wild
roses blooming, larkspur
too, cows safely fenced on
the right, the huge log
booms cn the water side.

The footing is very good
on a wide and not too
gravelly path, without hills,
so that one can walk a long
way without tiring.

We enjoyed the morning »*
sunshine and the few other
adventurers, then headed
for the Albion Ferry. A cir-
cuitous route brought us
back to Cates Park, where
we polished off our picnic,
and so home. The weather
by this time had lost its ear-
ly promise, but we’d had
the best part.

Our heads were full of
watery vistas and brooding
mountains and the slow
river broad and deep, and
peace to last for a week.

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