WE QUIT THRU-HIKING | Life Update and Plans for the Future
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- Опубліковано 20 січ 2024
- Perhaps you've been wondering why we haven't been doing any long-distance hikes lately? Today, we're going to answer that question and share a bit of our personal journey over the past few years. In this video, we want to open up about our life from 2020 to 2023, undoubtedly challenging years for everyone. These years took a toll on us as well..
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We are a couple who once fell in love with mountains and couldn't get back. So we decided to follow our heart and move from a big city to a small village to be able to do what we love and to create this content. Our goal is to promote the healthy lifestyle, to motivate people to travel more and care for nature around. We are passionate walkers who love hiking, trekking and camping. We offer the detailed information of our hikes and routes, including the map and all the directions, so that you can repeat it if you'd like to.
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good luck in the future. health, both physical and mental, is very important. take care of yourself
Thank you so much, Katia! It's been our priority in the latest time since we realized that it is more serious than we wanted to accept. But acknowledging and facing the problem already helped quite a bit🙏🏻
I totally understand yourbsituation. Lock down had that effect on many of us. My wife and I did manage part of the GR34 when major restrictions were lifted but that was our last one together. I managed a few solo ones. We both want to walk the canal du Nivernais next year but I need to get fit again. Last year was impossible to hike due to my health. I feel better now but have lost my fitness. Hopefully I will get it back.
Rest assured, travel and long distance walking is back to the way it was before COVID. Once you get your mojo back I'm sure you will be back on the trails. Until then show your day hikes and the equipment reviews. Day hikes are interesting 😅
Thanks so much for your nice words of support! Yes, it's been a very tough long period for us, too intense. There were just way too many challenges we had to face, most of them were mental. But the consequence of that was getting physical issues too. So now we have to take our time, and get back into shape slowly. We know how one partner can affect the other one too. Hope you will recover and get fit very soon and be ready to hit the trail! Great to hear you like our day hikes, will try to keep them interesting😊
Hope to see you doing your long distance hikes again when you are ready. Maybe some intermediate length section hikes, breaking the long distance trails down into more manageable stages? Section hikes also allow money to be earned between the sections or stages. Take care of yourselves.
Thank you, good to hear from you! Yes, this is definetely the type of hike we are considering the most lately. This way it shouldn't feel that overwhelming. We too hope to break that block and be out on the trail again soon, but start small.
Good luck with your future plans.
For me 2024 will bring a beautiful hike on Via Transilvanica and some hikes on the mountains.
Thank you! It sounds great, hope you enjoy your hiking season!
Good luck for the future. The mountains will be there when you are ready again for thru hiking. For me on 2024 it will be the complete GR7 across France to link up to the last section of the GR10 & then head South to the sea ! Should take me a while to complete that! See you in the mountains, stay safe & well !
Appreciate your support, our dear friend! We know, we need to be patient and take our time. In any case it should be an enjoyable experience and not forced by any means. Hope we'll get back into shape soon. Your plans are awesome, so much hiking distance to be covered! But it should be a beautiful trail, although we know little about GR7. GR10 is amazing one. When are you planning to get started? And how long you think it should take you to complete?
Sending big support to you guys in whatever uou do. You're still keeping the channel going, right? I think I speak for everyone when I say we love your totally natural videos, without egos or showing off etc. just two people enjoying their hikes together. I hope (I'm sure) you find your way back into long distance trails - absence makes the heart grow fonder as they say.
Enjoy your break, time for reflection, time for yourselves and time to re-energise and reinvigorate! Thanks so much for all your videos! But you're still continuing the channel, right?
Thank you, friend, for such warm wishes and kindness! We appreciate your words. In terms of natural style of our videos, that's really the only way we could do them, we are quite bad at acting and pretending, hehe. We certainly will continue the channel, just sharing other video reviews and hiking tips for now. And as you said hope that "our heart grow fonder" with time. It is such a nice saying.
Don't quit! You're having a break, sometimes we all just have to stop for a moment. You'll find your way again to do the long walks. In the meantime I'm sure people still enjoy following your short walks/hikes. Your videos are always beautiful and inspiring. Take care🤗🌹
Thank you so much, our dear friend, for your supportive kind words! It means a world to us. We believe we will find our way to get back to long walks. Hope you are having a great winter season too!
@@WalkingNatureWorld I'm sure you will!
Here in Australia we're actually just going into autumn soon, but it has been a very humid and changeable weather.
Stay safe and healthy 🤗
You too, Geraldine, take good care of yourself!
Thank you for sharing this inside information. I liked watching your videos about your longdistance hikes a lot and just watched some of your episodes of the GR92 again. As I'm planning to do a part of this trail from Portbou tot Lloret de Mar. Not yet sure when. But the planning and preparation, also thanks to your videos, is part of the fun. Wish you all the best. Keep going and stay safe!
Appreciate a lot your kind words! Actually this kind of feedback may be our best motivation to get back on the trail as soon as we can☺ So glad to know they were helpful to you when planning your hike. We did try our best to share as many details as possible when being on the trail and tips after completing it. All the best to you too, have a wonderful hiking trip on GR92! It is a beautiful trail to hike indeed! Pick the month of May if possible, it is going to be even more magical then:)
Best of luck to you guys
Thank you so much!
Hike when you can! Your videos of any type are enjoyable. Take care.
Thank you for these words! Appreciate your comment. We will work on getting back into shape and in the meanwhile share some fun and useful content we come up with.
Thanks
Thanks a lot, Matin, for the support!
Hi guys 👋 I really enjoy all of your videos, whenever you post them. Looking forward to seeing you next time ❤x
Hi, good to hear from you and that you like most of our videos🙏🏻 We will continue to do our best to make the content fun and useful🏞🏕
Good luck for the future my friends take care
Thank you so much! Will do and hope to get back that motivation again soon🙏🏻
Hey guys... Ive been a long time subscriber and ive enjoyed watching your channel for years now... I just wanted to say that we love your hikes and travels content but I honest feel that I and other viewers would love if you share other content also, not just hiking trails... Maybe you can share with us your favorite restaurants, museums, or cities you like to visit, maybe its a good way to grow your channel more... I know i would enjoy watching you two no matter what you do... You are such a lovely couple and such wonderful human beings.... Im sure any content you make will be great... You two are a breath of fresh air on youtube because you are both authentic wonderful people, and we would enjoy even watching you guys maybe cook some recipes you learned in your travels, or shared your secrets for a happy relationship, or showed us what type of music you guys enjoy or create... Just a thought from a long time subscriber and fan... Thank you...
Hello, Peter, your comment made our day, thank you for such heartwarming words, we feel so grateful that we have people like you as a part of our community.
We have tried experimenting with the content from time to time and certainly will continue to do so. Thank you for the suggestions! We ourselves feel that we need to make something different once in a while to keep us interested in what we do and create and keep it aligned with our vision. We also try to make sure that our content reflects us as we are, so we do our best to stay authentic. We appreciate the feedback of our long-time subscribers like you and always look forward to it.
Hope you are having a nice winter season and take care!
I hope you combat this fear now that those practical restrictions are long gone. May I ask what specific fears you have that exist now that didn't before 2020? What are you fearful may happen if you hike for more than a day? You don't really explain in the video.
I wish you all the best.
Yes, we are on our way to recover, slowly but surely. As of now there are no real obstacles that we fear, cause as you said there are no practical restrictions now. But it is more of a mental block currently for us. Back in 2020 it turned out a traumatic experience for us and now we are still facing the consequences - low motivation, energy etc. It just hit us too badly. We didn't share some personal details, but there were many challenges that we had to fight against and work around through all those years. It triggered many "hidden" personal issues that came to light in this period of time and it is just a lot to process.
So for now we won't put this pressure on us and allow it to come naturally, as we are sure it will come back. And the long distance hike should be enjoyable, not feeling like a chore.
@@WalkingNatureWorld I absolutely agree - I bet you'll know when it's time, because there will either be no fear, or the excitement will trump the fear. 'Exciting fear' is maybe the very definition of 'adventure'? And adventure is a state of mind anyway... sometimes just going to the supermarket can be an adventure. 😄Best of luck to you both. 👍
That couldn't be said better😊 Thanks, friend!
@@WalkingNatureWorld do what best is for your both:) thanks for all videos and i hope you come back someday
Thank you! We will continue to make videos and hope our "mojo" so to say will get back soon🙏🏻
Heyy Guys!! Here’s a suggestion for you. Please lock your exposure while shooting videos. When you put cuts though your videos, it’s a significant exposure shift that i can notice throughout your videos on this channel✌️
Hi, thanks for advice, we do try to even it up to smooth it out but it's not always possible to lock. The conditions where we film also play its part. But we acknowledge the importance of it for a better viewer experience so will be working on improving that.
HELLO!
a bientot pour randonner autour du CANIGOU 😀😃😄😘
vous avez ete agresser pendant un voyage ?😕🥺
Bonjour, bonne randonnée, c'est en effet un magnifique sentier. Non, nous n'avons pas été agressés pendant le voyage.
@@WalkingNatureWorld ok
You worry to much...do what you did best....you have lost yourselves...please get back on the road
...... no mental barriers.... please 🙏
Thanks for the support, we are concious that it's mostly mental but it is easier said than done to break that. As we mentioned in the other comment there was a lot to deal with during these years for us apart from pandemic. It just accentuated that. But we don't give up and hope to get back on the trail soon🙂