Kick-off - #350WordsWeekly


Hi All, I’m Luís a Portuguese fan of #Hiking, #Camping and #Geocaching and this is what this post is all about. Usually I’m doing those activities with my team known as Team Pes Rotos. We enjoy creating some events on Geocaching related to the walks we are expecting to do, usually in Portugal, to discuss some ideas before starting.

It is a pleasure to motivate others walk the trail but since all of us walk in a different pace, normally we walk apart. I noticed, this is an interesting topic around the trekking fans, and because of this I wold like you can share if do you usually prefer to walk alone or in group? and if I’m not asking too much, your reasons. You can leave your comments on the section below.

We’re preparing our next hike, Sintra and Cascais section of E9/GR11, the European Coastal Path. This is only a little bit of this huge route, only 35 kms but full of natural interest, wonderful landscapes, nice technical trail paths, and we hope a nice start to test our capabilities to hike the Kungsleden trail in Sweden. We expect go there at 2021. Probably, Kungsleden will be the main goal to guide our calendar in the next two years. I’m expecting to add The Way of Saint James in my portfolio of walked paths and others.

Some topics I would to approach in future are related to these activities. I expect to return next weeks with new hikes I’m preparing to walk in, some details about my gear, how I usually prepare my adventures, some nice places to visit, some discussions about the Portuguese trails, some environment wellbeing ideas and so on keeping the rhythm of one post per week with #350words.

If you would like to have more details about our adventures, you can explore our blog and find the links to Youtube, Instagram Facebook and others.

This will be my first blogger description too but, I hope, not the last one. Hope you enjoyed this post and in that case, kindly comment, subscribe and share.

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