GOING AFOOT
Emblem of the League of Walkers
GOING AFOOT
A Book on Walking
BAYARD H. CHRISTY
Published for
the League of Walkers
BY
ASSOCIATION PRESS
New York: 347 Madison Avenue
1920
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Special acknowledgment is gladly made to therespective publishers for permission to use the followingcopyrighted material:
Quotations from the Journals of Henry D. Thoreau,copyright by Houghton, Mifflin & Company;“Trees,” by Joyce Kilmer, copyright by George H.Doran Company; “Uphill,” from “Poems,” by ChristinaRossetti, copyright by Little, Brown & Company,Publishers, Boston; “Overflow,” by John BanisterTabb, copyright by Small, Maynard & Company;“The Lake Isle of Innisfree,” by WilliamButler Yeats, copyright by The Macmillan Company.
None of the above material should be reprintedwithout securing permission.
Copyright, 1920, by
The International Committee of
Young Men’s Christian Associations
To
GEORGE J. FISHER
at Whose Instance, and With Whose
Kindly Aid, These Pages Were Written
CONTENTS
| I. | How to Walk | 1 |
| Posture—Wearing Apparel—Equipment—Care of Body and Equipment—Companions. | ||
| II. | When to Walk | 39 |
| At What Season—The Hours of the Day—Speed and Distance—Stunt Walking—Championship Walking—Competitive Walking. | ||
| III. | Where to Walk | 63 |
| Choice of Surroundings—Nature of Country—The Goal and the Road—Maps—Walking by Compass. | ||
| IV. | Walking Clubs in America | 79 |
| The Appalachian Mountain Club—The Green Mountain Club—Wanderlust of Philadelphia—Walking Clubs of New York—Some Western Clubs—Association of Mountaineering Clubs. | ||
| V. | Organization and Conduct of Walking Clubs | 103 |
| The Activities of a Walking Club—Rules for Hiking—A Club Constitution—Juvenile Clubs—League of Walkers. | ||
| Bibliography | 141 |
HOW TO WALK
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