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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: Doug Collins has moved up in the News. _ A whole two pages. Starting this Wednesday you can now read Doug’s column “On the Other Hand” on page 7. The content will probably be the same, just a different location. That's about all we can do with a guy like Doug. ,