There and Back Again: Be a Hobbit Challenge!

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  • cpanus
    cpanus Posts: 19,906 Member
    305 miles ...road curves more to southeast. South of the road are bushes and stunted trees: wild and pathless. We camped north of the road then continued. Weather pleasant.
  • howebrook
    howebrook Posts: 28 Member
    I've made it to the Great East Road finally. Slow going but eventually even the turtle made it.
  • moreORless50
    moreORless50 Posts: 261 Member
    282 miles Weather Hills have almost disappeared. Ahead, dark wooded hills appear
  • cpanus
    cpanus Posts: 19,906 Member
    314...Road swings southeast through open country. Ahead on hills of the Trollshaws, can now see “old castles with an evil look.” will camp in three more miles.
  • micheleld73
    micheleld73 Posts: 914 Member
    61.5 miles The Old Forest is very close!!
  • Kelseybee13
    Kelseybee13 Posts: 11
    I am so sorry for your loss. I would love to be part of this journey!
  • hypotrochoid
    hypotrochoid Posts: 842 Member
    I am so sorry for your loss. I would love to be part of this journey!

    Never too late to start!
  • Lisah8969
    Lisah8969 Posts: 1,247 Member
    Whew...gone quite a few days since my last post...

    Since Jan 1, I am now almost ready to stop for the night on Day 5.
  • hypotrochoid
    hypotrochoid Posts: 842 Member
    157, on the southern edge of the marsh.
  • Sheacat
    Sheacat Posts: 24
    This is awesome and I am so in. :D
  • WeepingAngel81
    WeepingAngel81 Posts: 2,232 Member
    Can I be a Hobbit who started really really late and has a long way to go before catching up?

    Yeah...this ^

    But um...where do ya'll live that you can be out walking right now. I'm in Nebraska freezing my buns off! I may have to join REALLY late.
  • hypotrochoid
    hypotrochoid Posts: 842 Member
    Can I be a Hobbit who started really really late and has a long way to go before catching up?

    Yeah...this ^

    But um...where do ya'll live that you can be out walking right now. I'm in Nebraska freezing my buns off! I may have to join REALLY late.

    I'm in Seattle, so it's fairly nice out at the moment. Keep in mind, though, that this is not a very strict challenge; more of a 'get there by any means' type thing. Treadmills, stationary bikes, heck, if you wanted to use a calculated daily mileage from a pedometer you wear while walking around all day, would all count. This is an individual journey in a loose group format. Don't put it off because it's cold. Find a way.
  • cappri
    cappri Posts: 1,089 Member
    Journey Began 12/15/12


    135.18 miles Meet a traveler who hurries by.
  • cpanus
    cpanus Posts: 19,906 Member
    320 miles ...continue southeast on road. Weather turns cold and wet.
  • cappri
    cappri Posts: 1,089 Member
    Journey Began 12/15/12


    140.79 miles- Continue east-southeast at a comfortable pace. Weather nice.
  • cpanus
    cpanus Posts: 19,906 Member
    327 miles...Nearly dark: cross The Last Bridge. Stop to camp in clump of trees. Realize Gandalf is missing. Pony bolts into river and loses baggage with food. See fire in trees on hillside to east. Decide to investigate.
  • cappri
    cappri Posts: 1,089 Member
    Journey Began 12/15/12


    143.57 miles- Road curves more to the east. Marshes fill all the northern horizon.
  • cappri
    cappri Posts: 1,089 Member
    Journey Began 12/15/12


    146.46 miles- Camp due south of the Midgewater Marshes.
  • cpanus
    cpanus Posts: 19,906 Member
    348 miles...Enter woods. Continue east on road through woods.
  • cpanus
    cpanus Posts: 19,906 Member
    355 miles...Pass out-thrust ‘toe’ of a hill.
  • cpanus
    cpanus Posts: 19,906 Member
    365 miles...can see ruins on hilltop to the north.
  • cappri
    cappri Posts: 1,089 Member
    Journey Began 12/15/12


    158.76 miles- Road continues east around southern edge of the Marshes.
  • cpanus
    cpanus Posts: 19,906 Member
    373 miles...continue northeast. Road still hugs feet of the Trollshaws.
  • cpanus
    cpanus Posts: 19,906 Member
    380 miles...cross a small stream. Road bends more northeast. The steep ravine of the Bruinen also runs east-northeast not far to the south. Continue east-northeast along road. Ride very quickly.
  • micheleld73
    micheleld73 Posts: 914 Member
    Passing Barrow-downs at 83.5 miles.
  • hypotrochoid
    hypotrochoid Posts: 842 Member
    165. Road turns slightly more towards the north.
  • cappri
    cappri Posts: 1,089 Member
    Journey Began 12/15/12


    172.08 miles- Weathertop is visible ahead, with the Weather Hills to its north.
  • cpanus
    cpanus Posts: 19,906 Member
    397 miles... a few miles back, a deep ravine held a waterfall. Then we came to the sudden cliff into the valley of Rivendell. We rode slowly down the zig-zag path. Pines cling to the upper slopes, beech and oak below. Now we lead the ponies across the narrow bridge over the upper Bruinen and reach the ‘Last Homely House’ in Rivendell.
  • cappri
    cappri Posts: 1,089 Member
    Journey Began 12/15/12


    175.13 miles- Weathertop is visible ahead, with the Weather Hills to its north.
  • cpanus
    cpanus Posts: 19,906 Member
    Heading back now...

    11.46 miles yesterday and today.

    385.54 miles to go...Road runs gently uphill. Much grass on sides. Hills to the south.

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