Annual friends’ walk with Chris and Matt — 2022 edition
Unknown — ‘just a few days’
With Chris and Matt
- Ridgeline Back to the Peninsula
Walks
-
Tours went by train or car; they aren’t counted as walks.
- 8,934 km
- 607 days
- ↑137,277 m
- ≈10.8M steps
Routes are GPS recordings from the walks (Annapurna 2009’s, not recorded, is the standard trail from OpenStreetMap, © OpenStreetMap contributors). Coastlines and lakes: Natural Earth. Elevation and relief: AWS Terrain Tiles (Mapzen / Tilezen), served from this site. 3D: three.js.
SRTM, GMTED2010 and 3DEP courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey · ETOPO1: U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration · Produced using Copernicus data and information funded by the European Union — EU-DEM layers · © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2015. All rights reserved. · © Kartverket · ArcticDEM: DEM(s) were created from DigitalGlobe, Inc., imagery and funded under National Science Foundation awards 1043681, 1559691, and 1542736.
Kohechi, five days (Japan House LA interview)
Kōyasan ↔ Hongū via the Kohechi (‘southbound from Koyasan’ per the interview — but Roden 018 says the April 2018 walk was Craig’s FIRST north→south Kohechi, so direction or year is garbled)
With John McBride
Norway walk-and-talk (Berkåk → Trondheim, St. Olav Way)
Berkåk → Trondheim (Nidaros Cathedral) on the St. Olav Way, six days north through Trøndelag
With Kevin Kelly and six others
- Ridgeline Walking with Annie
- Ridgeline Walking Norway’s Gudbrandsdalsleden Pilgrimage
London walks
City walks around London, about Aug 29 – Sep 7 and again from Sep 20 (either side of Norway)
Length of Manhattan (Marble Hill → The Battery)
Marble Hill–225th St (Broadway Lift Bridge) → Highbridge Park → Morris-Jumel Mansion / Sylvan Terrace → Manhattanville Coffee → Sugar Hill → Hamilton Heights → West Harlem → 125th St → Central Park west side → Broadway/7th Ave → Times Square → Penn Station → West Village → Tribeca → Oculus → Battery Park (Dead Rabbit for oysters)
With Michael George (National Geographic photographer)
- Ridgeline Walking New York POPS
- Ridgeline Walking The Length of Manhattan
NYC micro walks (Brooklyn Bridge, speedwalking the Met, Midtown POPS)
Tribeca → Brooklyn Bridge → Carroll Gardens; the Met with a retired Columbia professor; Alex Wolfe’s ‘Noticing: Public Spaces of Midtown’ route (NYPL Stavros Niarchos → Tudor City → St Peter’s → 6½ Ave)
With Alex Wolfe and a retired Columbia professor
- Ridgeline Walking the Brooklyn Bridge
- Ridgeline Speedwalking the Met
- Ridgeline Walking New York POPS
- Ridgeline Walking The Length of Manhattan
- Roden New Japan, NYC, Soderbergh Bonanza, Too Much Movement
- Roden NYC, Asheville TBOT Event
- Roden Go Knicks, A Better Goodreads, ‘Cheap’ Killer Films
Portuguese Coastal Camino walk-and-talk (Porto → Cabo Silleiro)
Porto (bus out to Agudela) → Póvoa de Varzim → coastal boardwalks north (Vila do Conde, Esposende, Viana) → A Guarda (5-minute boat across the Minho into Spain) → Oia → Cabo Silleiro lighthouse; then drove to Santiago for Easter Sunday mass (Apr 5)
With Kevin Kelly and six others
Nagasaki hillside walks (NYT ‘52 Places’ media trip)
Nishizaka-machi, Tateyama, Minami-Yamate lanes, Glover Garden, Urakami, Fuku-no-yu
- Ridgeline My 2026 New York Times Pick — Nagasaki
- Ridgeline A Return to Nagasaki
- Roden Meditation, Language, and LLMs
Tōkaidō / Mochizuki Kaidō — six days of walking and looking with John McBride
Himekaidō research around Hamamatsu, then the Tōkaidō over Satta Pass — looking more than walking, with John McBride
With John McBride (‘The Book of John’, writing a Tōkaidō book)
- Ridgeline The Shops Atop the Canal in Toyohashi
- Roden Meditation, Language, and LLMs
Miura Peninsula New Year walk (Misakiguchi → Zushi)
Misakiguchi (bus into Misaki village) → coast and docks → plateau → Koajiro Nature Preserve → Miura fields → Route 134 → Nagasaka, Ashina, Akiya → Hayama → Zushi (planned continuation over Kotsubo to Kamakura abandoned in sleet)
With a group of unnamed friends (‘dorks’)
- Ridgeline Start With a Walk
New Year’s Day Tokyo walk to Denny’s (2026)
Local Tokyo shrine → past the Imperial Palace and moat → Marunouchi → Denny’s
- Ridgeline Happy New Year With a Side of Fries
Kiso-ji walk-and-talk (Ena → Niekawa)
Arrive Ena (Ichikawa Ryokan) Dec 2 → Ena → Magome 19.2 km → Magome → Ōtsumago 10 km → Ōtsumago → Nagiso (TIES campground yurts, −8°C) 12 km → Ne-no-ue Pass → Nojiri → Ōkuwa → train Suhara → Kiso-Fukushima 22 km → Kiso-Fukushima → Torii Pass → Narai 24 km → Narai → Kiso-Hirasawa → Niekawa 10 km (Villa Azalea, Lake Suwa)
With Kevin Kelly and seven others
(the entire walk is) Between Two Mountains — Kiso-ji out and back
Takenami / Jūsan Pass → Ena → Magome → Tsumago → Ōkuwa → Kiso-Fukushima → Narai → Niekawa (northern end), then back south: Niekawa → Narai → Harano (train hop) → Kiso-Fukushima → Ōkuwa → Nagiso → Magome → Ochiai (Nakatsugawa)
With John McBride (‘Book of John’) for the last seven days and David for two days (Oct 12–13)
Pop-up: (the entire walk is) Between Two Mountains
- Pop-up Between Two Mountains
- Ridgeline Between Two Mountains — A New Pop-up Newsletter
- Ridgeline Full Days and the Long Walk
- Ridgeline The Walk and Talk, Nagano Kiso-ji
- Roden A new Popup Walk, Lots of Books
- Roden Blank Spaces, Radicalized Offlineness, Curious Protagonists
- Roden Tokyo TBOT Event, Selling a House, 2026 in Brooklyn?
Night walk through Shibuya with Sam Holden
Aoyama Cemetery → Gaienmae → Omotesandō / Jingūmae 5-chōme → Miyashita Park → Shibuya Crossing → Center Gai → Tomigaya
With Sam Holden
- Ridgeline So, uh, I Walked Through Shibuya
- Roden A new Popup Walk, Lots of Books
Karuizawa retreat (one day in the woods, then a kidney stone)
Karuizawa woods and back roads from the Manpei Hotel; planned old-Nakasendō climb to Usui Pass abandoned
- Ridgeline Eating Linoleum in Karuizawa
- Roden A new Popup Walk, Lots of Books
US book-tour city walks (NYC, SF, Seattle, LA, Chicago, Beacon)
Manhattan up and down (Three Lives & Co., West Village); SF Botanical Garden and the Wharf; Rattlesnake Ledge (Seattle) in the rain with his sister; Beacon NY with Sam Anderson; a ‘very short walk’ in the hills behind Rich Roll’s LA studio
With Rich Roll, Sam Anderson and his biological sister
- Ridgeline The Six Week Book Tour, a ‘Walk’
- Ridgeline A Short Walk to a Little Bookshop
- Ridgeline OTHER THING - Photographs of Kii
- Ridgeline A (Very) Short Walk With Rich Roll
- Roden Hark, a Book Appears!
- Roden A Wonderful Book Tour Concludes
Camino Francés walk-and-talk (Sarria → Santiago, last 110 km)
Sarria → Portomarín → … → O Pino → Santiago de Compostela (final stretch of the Camino Francés); Craig arrived via Madrid
With Kevin Kelly and eight others
- Ridgeline Other Thing, Walking Yamaguchi
- Ridgeline Talking While Walking the Camino Francés in Spain
- Ridgeline Between Two Mountains — A New Pop-up Newsletter
- Ridgeline Walk and Talk — The Portuguese Coastal Camino
- Roden Book Tour! The Good Place! A New Photo Book!
- Roden Hark, a Book Appears!
- Roden A new Popup Walk, Lots of Books
- Roden Tokyo TBOT Event, Selling a House, 2026 in Brooklyn?
- Talk TED — How to take a long walk
Yamaguchi City + Hagi Ōkan with Papersky
Yamaguchi City streets and the Hagi Ōkan (old road over the mountains to Hagi on the Sea of Japan)
With Lucas B.B. and Papersky magazine team
About a Nightingale — a Kii Peninsula photo trip (OTHER THING)
Ise → Kii-Nagashima → Owase → Katsuura (the tuna market) → Kushimoto → Nachi → Hongū → Totsukawa, by rental car (≈700 km driven), with short walks
With Asamura-san and friends at Nachi
Pop-up: About a Nightingale
New Year’s Day Tokyo walk to Denny’s (2025)
Akasaka → Yotsuya → Kōjimachi → Sanbanchō → Yasukuni Shrine → Jimbōchō → Ochanomizu → Kanda → Ueno Park → Nezu → Yanaka (Denny’s)
- Ridgeline Walking Tokyo on New Year’s Day
Karuizawa holiday strolls
Karuizawa back roads over the holidays
- Ridgeline Nytimes Pick 2025: Toyama and Noto
Morioka shōtengai TV walk with Tenshin Kimura (Kissa by Kissa JP launch)
Old shopping street of a town near Morioka (TV special), plus Morioka city
With Tenshin Kimura
- Ridgeline Walking to Bath, London’s Greatness
- Ridgeline Launching Japanese Kissa by Kissa
Cotswold Way walk-and-talk (Cheltenham → Bath)
Cowley/Cheltenham → Painswick → King’s Stanley → Wotton-under-Edge → Cold Ashton → Bath (southern Cotswold Way)
With Kevin Kelly and eight others
Mt Haguro stone staircase (to meet John after yamabushi training)
Tsuruoka → up the Haguro stone staircase (2,446 steps) to the shukubō for the aki-no-mineiri festival
With John McBride
Bali walk-and-talk (Astungkara Way ‘Tree to Sea’)
Just outside Ubud → ‘the tree’ → jungle/village platforms → Lake Tamblingan → waterfall café → the sea; the six-day ‘Tree to Sea’ route plus one added day at the front
With Kevin Kelly and eight others
- Ridgeline Slow Time and the Bali Walk and Talk
The Return to Pachinko Road — Tōkaidō, Kyoto → Tokyo
Kyoto (about 6 a.m.) → Ōtsu (Bashō’s grave) → Ishibe → Seki → Yokkaichi → boat across Nagoya Bay (Hirai-san) → Miya/Nagoya → Okazaki → Toyohashi (rest) → Hamamatsu → Kakegawa → Fujieda → Shizuoka (Abekawa Mochi) → Okitsu → Yoshiwara → Mishima → Hakone (Amazake-chaya, near-typhoon) → Hakone-Yumoto → Odawara → Ōiso → Hiratsuka → Fujisawa (Yugyō-ji) → Totsuka → Hodogaya → Kanagawa → Kawasaki → Shinagawa → Nihonbashi (May 31)
With David on May 19
Pop-up: The Return to Pachinko Road
- Pop-up The Return to Pachinko Road
- Ridgeline Continuous Uninterrupted Solo Walks
- Ridgeline Pachinko Road, One More Time
- Ridgeline Ben Pobjoy’s Tips for Long Walks
- Ridgeline Slow Time and the Bali Walk and Talk
- Ridgeline Tōkaidō on Film — People
- Ridgeline Walking the Great Kantō Quake of 1923
- Ridgeline Those Shōwa Vibes
- Ridgeline Driving the Tōkaidō
- Ridgeline The Shops Atop the Canal in Toyohashi
- Roden Smelting in the New York Times
- Roden New Pop-up Walk, Reading Digitally in 2024
- Roden Burnout? a TV Show, FM Radio, a Big Walk, and More
- Roden A new Popup Walk, Lots of Books
- Podcast One live J-Wave FM episode from the road
Morioka with Tamori (TV shoot)
Morioka streets and the Mikoda morning market, on camera with Tamori for two days
With Tamori
- Ridgeline Ben Pobjoy’s Tips for Long Walks
Kōchi / Shikoku exploratory trip (Yusuhara)
Exploratory walks on the old roads of Kōchi (Yusuhara and around) with John McBride, a history pass for the book
With John McBride
- Ridgeline Kitchen Arts and Kissa by Kissa
- Ridgeline Continuous Uninterrupted Solo Walks
Yamaguchi City media visit (walking the city)
Yamaguchi City: Ichinosaka River, Rurikō-ji, Jōei-ji, Churamu, Log Coffee, Mizunoue kiln at Tōshun-ji
- Ridgeline Yamaguchi City — My ‘New York Times’ Pick This Year
- Ridgeline Yamaguchi Once More
- External Papersky No. 72 — Walkable Yamaguchi
Ise-ji, four days with Chris and Matt (annual friends’ walk)
Misedani → 22 km north through the ‘baka-magari’ → (cab back) → Funaki Bridge → Misezaka → Takihara-no-Miya → Tsuzurato Pass → Kii-Nagashima (kissa Kirin) → Furusato Onsen → Aiga Station (Magose Pass skipped; train to Owase)
With Chris and Matt
- Ridgeline Back to the Peninsula
Thailand walk-and-talk (Doi Inthanon → Chiang Mai)
Khun Wang (Royal Project, Doi Inthanon ≈1,500 m) → Seclee → Mama → Chailai → Campiness → Namrae → Little Village → Tamarind Village, Chiang Mai; villages, rafts down a river, an elephant camp
With Kevin Kelly and ten others
- Ridgeline Walking the Heck out of Thailand
- Ridgeline The Walk and Talk: Everything We Know
- Essay How to Walk and Talk: Everything We Know
- Roden New Tokyo Walk, Fried Bologna, Louis Glück, Werner Herzog, Influenza
- Roden Things Become Other Things Become Books
- Roden Goodnight 2023, What a Year, I love Antibiotics
- Roden Smelting in the New York Times
- Roden Cover Reveal — TBOT Random House
- External Participant write-ups: Derek Sivers, Rolf Potts, Jason Kottke, Dan Wang’s annual letter
TOKIO TŌKYŌ TOKYO³ — across Tokyo-to from Disneyland to Mt Kumotori
Tokyo Disneyland edge (Urayasu, Chiba border) → central Tokyo → Tachikawa → western hinterlands → Mt Kumotori summit (2,017 m) on the last day: about 34 km up from Okutama and down the shorter side, then a bus; new hotel each night, full pack
With David on the final day
Pop-up: TOKIO TŌKYŌ TOKYO³
- Pop-up TOKIO TŌKYŌ TOKYO³
- Ridgeline Walking TOKIO TŌKYŌ TOKYO Part Three
- Ridgeline Walking 2023
- Ridgeline Continuous Uninterrupted Solo Walks
- Roden New Tokyo Walk, Fried Bologna, Louis Glück, Werner Herzog, Influenza
- Roden Tokyo Walk, TBOT Cover, Aloneness
- Roden Things Become Other Things Become Books
Matsumoto press-check stroll
Matsumoto streets (Doon Shokudo, Hangout Coffee, Kauhiya #3, Menshu Takenaka) on a free day after the TBOT fine-art press check
- Ridgeline TBOT Press Check, Walking Matsumoto
Yanesen summer walk (Uguisudani → Ueno)
Uguisudani Station → Iriya → Yanaka / Nezu / Sendagi (Kayaba Coffee, Asakura Museum, Kyōōji, Yanaka Ginza) → Snake Alley → Geidai → Ueno Park → Ueno Station
Wainwright’s Coast to Coast (St Bees → Robin Hood’s Bay)
St Bees → Ennerdale → Rosthwaite → Grasmere → Glenridding → Shap → Kirkby Stephen → Keld → Reeth → Richmond → Ingleby Cross → Clay Bank Top → Glaisdale → Robin Hood’s Bay (Lakeland incl. Red Pike, High Stile, Haystacks, Innominate Tarn; Nine Standards Rigg; North York Moors)
With Peter
- Ridgeline Jazz Kissa Tour — Thank You!
- Ridgeline British Sandwiches and Walking 300km of Wainwright’s Coast to Coast
- Ridgeline Walking 2023
- Ridgeline Walk and Talk — The Portuguese Coastal Camino
- Roden Sandwiches, Oppenheimer, Shooting Film
- Roden New Pop-up Walk, Reading Digitally in 2024
- Photos Hasselblad 500CM Portra frames
BASIE!BOP!JAMAICA! — a Tōhoku and Hokkaido jazz kissa tour
Fukushima (Mingus) → Yonezawa (Blue Note) → Yamagata (Octet) → Natori (Pablo) → Sendai (Count) → Ichinoseki (Basie) → Morioka (Johnny, S, Pannonica, Dante) → Akita (Rondo) → Hirosaki (Suga) → Aomori (Blue Note, Disk) → Hakodate (Bop, Leaf) → Sapporo (Jamaica, Slow Boat), by train
Pop-up: BASIE!BOP!JAMAICA!
Northern California week of walks
Edgewood Park, Noe Valley, SoMa/Embarcadero, Apple Park, Wunderlich County Park, Ring Mountain, Half Moon Bay coastal trail, Rockaway Beach (Pacifica), Crystal Springs; a hike above the bay with Enrique Allen
With Ben Blumenrose and Enrique Allen
- Ridgeline Walking Northern California
- Ridgeline Walking 2023
- Roden A Jazz Tour, Literary Deaths, Sylvia Plath
- Roden Enrique Allen
Kiso-ji short walk, April 2023 (with Robin Sloan and Kathryn Tomajan)
Bits of the Kiso-ji — Nagiso / Nojiri → Ne-no-ue Pass → Tsumago → Magome area; Kiso-Fukushima base
With Robin Sloan and Kathryn Tomajan
- Ridgeline Death and Not Death Along the Kiso-ji [Part 2]
- Ridgeline Things to Eat and Drink and Places to Stay Along the Kiso-Ji [Part 3]
- Ridgeline Walking 2023
Brooklyn and Manhattan walks (selling Things Become Other Things)
Streets of Brooklyn and a bit of Manhattan; Sam Anderson’s Manhattan walking tour
With Sam Anderson (Manhattan tour)
- Ridgeline Walking 2023
Kiso-ji short walk, early March 2023 (with two friends)
Bits of the Kiso-ji between Shiojiri/Narai and Nakatsugawa, based in Kiso-Fukushima (Kumata kissa, Iwaya inn)
With Chris and Matt
- Ridgeline Walking the Kiso-ji [Part 1]
- Ridgeline Death and Not Death Along the Kiso-ji [Part 2]
- Ridgeline Things to Eat and Drink and Places to Stay Along the Kiso-Ji [Part 3]
- Ridgeline Walking 2023
Sapporo jazz-kissa research + Bibai Arte Piazza
Sapporo city (jazz kissa research); bus with a friend’s tour group to Kan Yasuda’s snowed-in Arte Piazza in Bibai
With a good friend leading a tour (unnamed)
- Ridgeline A Walking Man
- Ridgeline Walking Around Kan Yasuda’s Sculptures
Morioka return visit (NYT ‘52 Places’ aftermath)
Morioka — Konyachō, Uchimaru castle district, riverside; Kufuya, Clammbon, Hataya, Nagasawa Coffee, Booknerd, Azumaya, Rieber, Waltz, Johnny’s
With Akihiko Baba (Azumaya) as guide
- Ridgeline The People of Morioka
- Essay Why Morioka?
- Roden The Morioka Experience
TOKIO TŌKYŌ TOKYO² — Winter Edition
Seven daybreak walks (≈6:45 a.m.) radiating 15–20 km from a central Tokyo base: Yoyogi/Shinjuku/Nogata; Rainbow Bridge/Tsukishima; Skytree/Shibamata; rest day; Yamanote loop (2 days); kissa walk to Waseda; Shibuya, Miyashita Park, 1964 Olympic housing, Kagurazaka, Ebisu
With W. David Marx on Jan 22
Pop-up: TOKIO TŌKYŌ TOKYO²
- Pop-up TOKIO TŌKYŌ TOKYO²
- Ridgeline Walking TOKIO TŌKYŌ TOKYO² — Winter Edition
- Ridgeline Rewalking Tokyo Again and Again
- Ridgeline Walking 2023
- Essay The Walking Tokyo Edition
- Roden Walking TOKYO, New Print, More Drums
- Roden The Morioka Experience
Kii Peninsula / Ise-ji walk-and-talk (Kevin Kelly)
Ise-ji southbound: Okajimaya → Misedani → Kiseisō → Minoshima; Owase → Misuzu (Oct 19–23); then Nakahechi: Dainichi-goe (Oct 24), Yunomine → Hongū via Hosshinmon (Oct 25), Koguchi → Nachi, 16 km with 1,000 m+ gain (Oct 26); Craig ‘cobbled together a luggage forwarding service’ since none exists on the Ise-ji
With Kevin Kelly and eight others
- Ridgeline The Body on a Long Walk
- Ridgeline The Sorta Kinda Life Changing Bliss of Walking Solo
- Roden Adult Summer Camp Sleepover Adventure
- Roden Meemmberrrshhiippss!
Kii Peninsula photo-research walk with John McBride (Kiiiiiiiiiiiiii)
Yunomine loop via Hosshinmon and Dainichi-goe (Oct 5); Shikō → Banze Pass → Ukegawa → Hongū (Oct 6); Koguchi → Nachi (Oct 8); Kata → Kumano City, 22 km (Oct 10); Kashiwazaki → Furusato Onsen, 26 km (Oct 11); Owase → Magose Pass → Aiga → Minose (Oct 12); Misedani → Kii-Kashiwazaki, 15 km (Oct 14); Ise → Tochihara, 27 km (Oct 15); Misedani → Tochihara, 15 km (Oct 16); trains between sections, a taxi research day (Oct 7) and rest days (Oct 9, 13)
With John McBride
Pop-up: Kiiiiiiiiiiiiii
- Pop-up Kiiiiiiiiiiiiii
- Ridgeline Pop-up: Kiiiiiiiiiiiiii
- Ridgeline The Body on a Long Walk
- Roden Electric Bicycle Review, Leica M11 Mini-Fieldtest
- Roden Adult Summer Camp Sleepover Adventure
- Roden Smelting in the New York Times
- Book Final photographic research for Things Become Other Things
TOKIO TŌKYŌ TOKYO — seven dawn walks fanning out from Azabu-Jūban
Seven morning walks radiating like a pinwheel from the same inn in Azabu-Jūban, each breaking out past the Yamanote loop: Kichijōji, Ikebukuro, Kita-Senju, Jinbōchō, Sunamachi, Ōmori, Tamagawa (Maruko Bridge over the Tama River on the last day)
Pop-up: TOKIO TŌKYŌ TOKYO
- Pop-up TOKIO TŌKYŌ TOKYO
- Ridgeline Walking TOKIO TŌKYŌ TOKYO for Seven Days
- Ridgeline The Performance Art of the Walk
- Ridgeline Kissa by Kissa by Kissa by Kissa
- Ridgeline Walking TOKIO TŌKYŌ TOKYO² — Winter Edition
- Ridgeline Rewalking Tokyo Again and Again
- Roden Summer Solitude
- Roden Pop-up Tokio Newsletter + New Print
- Roden Electric Bicycle Review, Leica M11 Mini-Fieldtest
Walking Venice (Biennale week)
Venice back-streets (‘ippon ura’), early mornings; Giardini della Biennale and the Arsenale; four nights
Pop-up: Man, It’s Been a While (MIBAW)
- Ridgeline Walking Venice
- Roden Summer Solitude
London and Paris city walks (Europe 2022, convalescing)
‘Strange walks in London, then Paris’ between the Cotswolds and Italy
Pop-up: Man, It’s Been a While (MIBAW)
- Ridgeline Europe Walking, New Pop-up Newsletter — MIBAW
- Ridgeline Walking Venice
Cotswolds walk-and-talk (northern loop; MIBAW)
Seven-day village-to-village loop around the northern Cotswolds on the Cotswold Way, Winchcombe Way, Gloucestershire Way and Windrush Way (≈3 days on the official Cotswold Way); Bourton-on-the-Water → Cheltenham stage; luggage forwarded inn to inn
With Kevin Kelly and eight others
Pop-up: Man, It’s Been a While (MIBAW)
- Pop-up M,IBAW — Man, It’s Been a While
- Ridgeline Groundhog Day, but Kinda Evil
- Ridgeline Europe Walking, New Pop-up Newsletter — MIBAW
- Ridgeline Walking the Cotswolds, Walking Japan
- Ridgeline Walking Venice
- Ridgeline Walking to Bath, London’s Greatness
- Roden New Essay in The New York Times
- Roden Covid.
- Roden Meemmberrrshhiippss!
Hakone on the old Tōkaidō, two days
Hakone, parts on the old Tōkaidō (stone-paved ishidatami and the pass); three nights at the Fujiya Hotel
With friends
Ten Cities — Tiny Barber, Post Office
Hakodate → Morioka → Sakata → Matsumoto → Tsuruga → Onomichi → (Shimanami Kaidō by bicycle, ≈80 km) → Matsuyama → Yamaguchi (city walks Dec 8–9) → Karatsu (Yōyokaku) → Kagoshima; three nights per city, walk-only within cities, trains/boats between, no planes
Pop-up: Tiny Barber, Post Office
- Pop-up Tiny Barber, Post Office
- Ridgeline The Next 500km+ Walk: Ten Cities Across Japan
- Ridgeline The Year in Walking — 2021
- Ridgeline The ‘Rules’ of Walking
- Ridgeline The Life of One Den
- Ridgeline Japan Reopens, Post-Pandemic Travel Tips
- Ridgeline The People of Morioka
- Ridgeline Yamaguchi City — My ‘New York Times’ Pick This Year
- Ridgeline Yamaguchi Once More
- Essay The Life of One Den
- Roden Indie Films, Indie Books
- Roden Big Walks, Opioids, Short Films
- Roden What’s at Stake?
- Roden Oh no, Memberships
- Roden Books, Nukes, Books, Atoms, Books
- Roden The Morioka Experience
- Video 33 ‘Nothing Exciting’ binaural videos; post-walk Q&A livestream
- Essay Running a Membership Program: Four Years In
Ōdaigahara research hikes (wondertrunk&co / Ministry of Environment)
Nishi-Ōdai Regulated Utilization Area 10 km guided loop (guide Mori-san + two rangers); 4 a.m. sunrise hike around Higashi-Ōdai to the Hidegatake platform
With wondertrunk&co group of 8 others, Mori-san (guide) and two park rangers
- Ridgeline Ōdaigahara Mountain Area
- Ridgeline The Year in Walking — 2021
- Roden K×K³, The Selfie Pathology, Our Leader McPhee
Kii Peninsula — Where are all the Nightingales? (the TBOT walk)
Hinaga Oiwake, Yokkaichi (where Tōkaidō and Ise-ji split) → Ise Kaidō ≈80 km → Ise Grand Shrine → Ise-ji down the coast (Kii-Nagashima, Owase, Kumano City; Yakiyama Pass skipped by train, Owase → Mikisato) → inland to Hongū → Koguchi → (bus and train in a downpour) → Nachi → Ōhechi around the southern tip (Kushimoto, Susami) → Tanabe (Jun 2) → Takijiri (Jun 3), no return to Hongū
With a friend on May 15 (Ise → Meki Pass)
Pop-up: Where are all the Nightingales?
- Book Things Become Other Things — Fine Art edition; Random House; Kirkus/PW starred
- Book OTHER THING: A Portrait of Kii — companion photobook
- Pop-up Where are all the Nightingales?; then the members-only book diary Nightingalingale
- Ridgeline Mountain Mode, Village Mode
- Ridgeline Walk as Spreadsheet
- Ridgeline A Walk is a Platform for Creative Work
- Ridgeline New Pop-up Newsletter — Kumano Kodō
- Ridgeline Pack Exhaustion
- Ridgeline All The Gear
- Ridgeline Walk Questions, Answered (#1)
- Ridgeline The Lost Marutanbo
- Ridgeline The Year in Walking — 2021
- Ridgeline A walk around Kii in the New York Times
- Ridgeline My Next Book: Things Become Other Things
- Ridgeline About a Nightingale
- Roden Pizza Toast Doc, Translating Murakami
- Roden A Million Weird Tricks, a Few Centuries Distilled
- Roden Big Walk Energy, Story Demystified, Film Review
- Roden Pop-up Newsletters, Great Photo Books, Olympic Level Ennui, Vaxxing
- Roden World Heritage Kissaten
- Roden What’s at Stake?
- Roden The Random House Book Deal
- Roden Starred Reviews, New Pop-up, We’ve Always Been Idiots
- Roden Things. Become. Other. Things.
- Essay Paying pilgrimage to the last kissaten on the Kumano Kodō trail
- Essay A Long Walk in a Fading Corner of Japan
- Essay Pop-Up Newsletters are the Greatest Newsletters
- Video 24–25 ‘Nothing Exciting’ binaural videos
- Podcast TBOT tour podcast; Tim Ferriss #802/803, Rich Roll, TED
Isobe → Karuizawa over the Usui Pass, with Chris and Matt (annual friends’ walk)
Isobe → Yokokawa → Usui Pass (the old Nakasendō climb) → Karuizawa
With Chris and Matt
- Ridgeline Back to the Peninsula
Nakasendō with David — Urawa → Nihonbashi
Urawa → Warabi → Itabashi → Nihonbashi along the old Nakasendō, the road’s first stage walked in reverse
With David
Yoshino mountain ‘coda’ walk (Asuka → Kayamori → passes → Yoshino River)
Kyoto → Chūshojima (Dec 3, 15 km); then Asuka → Kayamori → Imo-tōge → Yoshino River (Dec 5) — the Tōkaidō epilogue days
- Ridgeline Nara, Wonderful Nara
Tōkaidō — Kamakura → Kyoto (Pachinko Road)
Front door in Kamakura (Daibutsu Kiridōshi) → Totsuka → Fujisawa → Hakone → Mishima → Okitsu → Shizuoka → Fujieda → Hamamatsu → Toyohashi → Okazaki → Nagoya → Kuwana (walked the leg ‘normally by boat’) → Seki → Suzuka Pass → Minakuchi → Kusatsu → Kyoto (Sanjō Ōhashi); Totsuka → Kawasaki walked Oct 24–25 as a lead-in
With Alex Smith and friends as far as Totsuka on the first day and David on Nov 22, his 50th birthday
Pop-up: Pachinko Road
- Pop-up Pachinko Road
- Essay Let’s Walk Across Japan, Together
- Essay Looking Closely is Everything
- Ridgeline Long Walk Thinking
- Ridgeline Self-Improvement and the Big Walk
- Ridgeline Prepping for a Big Tōkaidō Walk
- Ridgeline Come Walk With Me
- Ridgeline Housekeeping
- Ridgeline Walking Mode
- Ridgeline COVID-19 and Walking Japan
- Ridgeline Six Tōkaidō Moments
- Ridgeline Nara, Wonderful Nara
- Ridgeline Them Post-walk Blues
- Ridgeline The Year in Walking, Ridgeline 2020
- Ridgeline Membership Enabled Walks
- Ridgeline Repetition On the Long Walk
- Ridgeline Long, Boring Walks
- Ridgeline A Walk is a Platform for Creative Work
- Ridgeline Walking the Great Kantō Quake of 1923
- Ridgeline Studio Goodbye, Studio Hello
- Roden Kissa — Second Edition and Book Goals
- Roden A Big Walk, Book Success, Work as Protest
- Roden Creativity Bootcamp and the Long Walk
- Roden All the Flora and Fauna
- Roden 1,000 Member Horizon, Year Three, Q&A
- Roden New WIRED Essay: Code & Therapy
- Roden Voting For Train Man
- Video 53 binaural 4K ‘views of the Tōkaidō’
- Podcast SW945 Tōkaidō season
- Print Tōkaidō #1 limited-edition print
- Book ‘Pachinko Road’ — planned SP-2 / How to Walk Japan Book Two
- Podcast On Margins s02e02 — discussed the walk
Tōkaidō 2020, the Tokyo end first: Totsuka → Nihonbashi
Totsuka → Hodogaya → Kanagawa-juku → Kawasaki → Shinagawa → Nihonbashi
With W. David Marx
Kyoto, tourist-free week
Kyoto — temples, shrines, gardens incl. Shigemori Mirei’s residence; ‘a million nooks’
- Ridgeline Disaster, Averted?
- Ridgeline Self-Improvement and the Big Walk
- Ridgeline The Year in Walking, Ridgeline 2020
- Roden Dingdong Mitigation
Kanazawa, tourist-free (evening city walks)
Kanazawa — station to downtown, gardens, tea districts, castle grounds; walks at sunset because of the heat
- Ridgeline Kanazawa, Clear Nodes
- Ridgeline The Year in Walking, Ridgeline 2020
- Roden SOLD OUT Toast, Fuji X-T4, Emotional … Intelligence?
Karuizawa neighbourhood walk (to the Manpei Hotel)
Friend’s house in Karuizawa → back neighbourhoods → Manpei Hotel; planned Usui Pass → Yokokawa the next day rained out
Hayama fish-and-chips day walk (in flip-flops)
Kamakura → along the beach and inland lanes → Hayama (fish shop, poki-don lunch) → home
- Ridgeline Fish & Chips
- Ridgeline The Year in Walking, Ridgeline 2020
Tokyo/Saitama printer-visit walk days (Kissa by Kissa production)
≈12 km between two Saitama printers (May 20, 14,000 steps); ≈1 h walking each way + 10k steps through NW Tokyo back alleys on later visits (Jun 11, Jun 26, Jul 10)
- Ridgeline A Book from Pizza Toast — Part 2
- Ridgeline A Book from Pizza Toast — Part 4
- Ridgeline A Book About Kissa — Part 5
- Ridgeline A Famous Journalist
Kyoto Higashiyama trail
Kyoto Isshū Trail, Higashiyama section — 24 km, 1,479 m of climbing
Kamakura pandemic loop (Pop-Up Walk 002 ‘Behind the Buddha’)
Home → old kiridōshi pass → ridgeline above the tunnel → yagura caves → stairs past a shrine → Fuji-view road → wooded ridgeline toward the ocean → home; 7–10 km, ≈65 flights of stairs, ≈2 h; daily new-path rule in the hills behind the house
Pop-up: Pop-Up Walk 002 — Behind the Buddha
- Ridgeline Walking in the Age of Corona
- Ridgeline Textures Along a Quarantine Path
- Ridgeline A Year of Walking, and Then Not
- Ridgeline Kodomo-no-hi
- Ridgeline A Walk, a Protest
- Ridgeline Welcome Back to Our COVID Loop
- Ridgeline Membership Enabled Walks
- Ridgeline Repetition On the Long Walk
- Ridgeline Groundhog Day, but Kinda Evil
- Ridgeline Japan Reopens, Post-Pandemic Travel Tips
- Video Pop-Up Walk 002 — Behind the Buddha
- Essay Looking Closely is Everything
- Roden Pointers, Masterclasses, X100Vs, Billionaire Universities
- Roden Boules, Earning Tools, Photography News, Repetition
- Roden On Love and Stillness and Wizards
- Roden Meemmberrrshhiippss!
Iwami Ginzan → Yunotsu (the silver mine with the dog)
Iwami Ginzan silver-mine town (Ōmori) → Yunotsu–Okidomari trail → Yunotsu onsen town
With John McBride and a hired local guide (retired elementary-school teacher with a sickle)
- Ridgeline The Silver Mine with the Dog
Hagi Ōkan with John McBride (Yamaguchi → Itadō Pass; Sasanami → Hagi)
Day 1: Yamaguchi City → 42 switchbacks → Itadō Pass (Rokken tea-house ruins). Day 2: Sasanami / Michi-no-eki Asahi → Naka-no Pass → Issho Valley → Akiragi → Meiji stone tunnel → Hagi (24 km). Yamaguchi → Hōfu leg (≈13 km) not walked
With John McBride (scouting a tour)
- Ridgeline Walking the Hagi Ōkan
- Ridgeline The Year in Walking, Ridgeline 2020
- Ridgeline The Body on a Long Walk
- Ridgeline Yamaguchi City — My ‘New York Times’ Pick This Year
- Roden Goodbye Old Friend, Diamonds, Deleting All Your Tweets
- Other John’s English draft Wikipedia entry for the Hagi Ōkan
Los Angeles neighbourhood walks
A small quadrant of LA — reservoir, lakes, hillside enclaves; 12-hr Amtrak Oakland → LA first
- Ridgeline A Walk is a Tool and a Platform
- Ridgeline A Talking Horse
- Roden Goodbye Old Friend, Diamonds, Deleting All Your Tweets
- Roden New WIRED Essay: Code & Therapy
Saba Kaidō taster walk, Obama City
≈5 km of the Saba Kaidō (mackerel road) from Obama toward Kyoto; Myōtsūji, Jingūji, morning fish market
With Bin Sugawara (poet), Jérôme Quilbeuf (chef) and Obama tourism-bureau guides
- Ridgeline Obama, City of Saba
- Ridgeline Monkeys, Literature, Food, and Walking
- Ridgeline The Year in Walking, Ridgeline 2020
Ise-ji southbound, Ise → Shingū (Pop-Up Walk 001)
Ise Jingū → Kawazoe → Ise-Kashiwazaki → Furusato Onsen (Pop-Up Walk day, Dec 4) → Owase (rest day Dec 6) → Mikisato → seven-pass day into Kumano City (Sun Dec 8) → 25 km along Shichiri-mihama to Shingū (Mon Dec 9)
Pop-up: Pop-Up Walk 001 — Ise-Ji + SW945 season 3
- Website Ise-ji: Walk With Me
- Ridgeline My Kingdom for Bread
- Ridgeline Pop-Up Walk
- Ridgeline Do You Drink?
- Ridgeline That Floating Feeling
- Ridgeline Pop-Up Highlights
- Ridgeline Photos: Ise-ji Objects
- Ridgeline A Year of Walking, and Then Not
- Ridgeline A Very Big Walking Website
- Ridgeline Long Walk Thinking
- Ridgeline Membership Enabled Walks
- Ridgeline A Walk is a Platform for Creative Work
- Video Pop-Up Walk 001 highlights
- Podcast SW945 season 3
- Huh Huh S01I06 ‘Boat’, S01I07 ‘Bench’, S01I10 ‘Laundry’, S01I11 ‘Treebush’, S01I20 ‘Ise Ocean’
- Roden Craftspeople, Craftsplaces, Craftsreading
- Roden Membership Programs, Year Two
- Roden Pointers, Masterclasses, X100Vs, Billionaire Universities
- Roden A Single Link to a Website
- Roden Boules, Earning Tools, Photography News, Repetition
Kyushu private walking tour (writer-in-residence)
Northern Kyushu survey — Karatsu (Nakazato/Ryuta kiln, two nights at Yōyokaku), Saga pottery villages, Nagasaki/Dejima; ‘40% walking, 20% museums, 30% pottery’
With private tour group
- Roden Craftspeople, Craftsplaces, Craftsreading
- Ridgeline Pop-Up Walk
Guilin → Yangshuo walk-and-talk (southern China)
Guilin → karst country → Yulong River (bamboo rafts a few km) → Yangshuo Mountain Retreat (Yangshuo Heritage Trail)
With Kevin Kelly and eight others
- Ridgeline Cocoon of Sleep
- Ridgeline How to Walk and Talk
- Ridgeline A Walk is a Platform for Creative Work
- Ridgeline Walk Questions, Answered (#1)
- Ridgeline Europe Walking, New Pop-up Newsletter — MIBAW
- Map Google My Maps route
Post-typhoon Hagibis midnight walk, Kamakura
Back alleys and main shopping street of Kamakura in a blackout, by moonlight
Oze National Park (Hiuchigatake)
Oze marsh plank-ways, two nights in yamagoya mountain huts, ascent of Hiuchigatake (2,356 m, ≈1,200 m gain, +200 m wrong-turn re-ascent)
With Chris
- Ridgeline Oze National Park
Kyrgyzstan valley + Baikonur Cosmodrome group trip
Kyrgyz mountain valley (≈2,500 m, Soviet sanatorium, glacier, horse games) → 8-hr train to Baikonur → ‘many-kilometer walk of the Cosmodrome’ → Astana
With Kevin Kelly and three others
- Ridgeline Travel / Walking Gear
- Ridgeline Soviet Horse Race
- Ridgeline Postcards from the Baikonur Cosmodrome
- Ridgeline Europe Walking, New Pop-up Newsletter — MIBAW
- Roden Media Accounting 101: Appholes and Contracts
- Roden iPhone 11 Pro Photography, Backup Strategies, Ursula Le Guin
- Roden Craftspeople, Craftsplaces, Craftsreading
- Roden Airflow is Life
New York city walks (Yale Publishing Course + Postlight talk trip)
Park Slope, Central Park, Prospect Park, Brooklyn Bridge at dusk, Washington Square, East Village, High Line → Hudson Yards
With a buddy (East Village stamp-shop hunt)
- Ridgeline Country Texture, City Texture
- Ridgeline Walk as Public Talk
- Talk Walk talk at Postlight Studios, NYC, Aug 8 2019
Rokujūri-goe Kaidō yamabushi shugyō walk (35 km with 13 yamabushi)
Yudono-san torii → old Rokujūri-goe mountain road → Haguro / Tsuruoka, official Haguro Shrine ascetic walk in full white yamabushi kit
With thirteen yamabushi (Haguro Shrine)
- Ridgeline Ascetic Pants
- Ridgeline TBOT Cover and Three Mountains in Yamagata
- Roden Tiny Loops, Hold Me Closer
Ise-ji northbound, Shingū → toward Ise (stage three of the spring 2019 walk)
Shingū → Kumano City → Kōbō Daishi footprint spring → Owase → fishing villages and passes of the Kii coast → Kii-Nagashima/Kihoku; stopped ≈2 days short of Ise; final SW945 recorded at Ise Jingū (Takanomiya)
With Chris for the final stretch
Pop-up: SW945 season 2 (Shingū → Ise leg)
- Ridgeline Special photo edition: Didn’t Die in the Mountains
- Ridgeline The Unresolved Walk, the Best Walk
- Ridgeline Walk and Transcribe
- Ridgeline SW945: The Sound of a Walk in Japan
- Ridgeline My Kingdom for Bread
- Ridgeline Pop-Up Walk
- Ridgeline A Famous Journalist
- Podcast SW945 S02 E08 Kōbō Daishi footprint spring; S02 E13 Ise Jingū Takanomiya
- Roden Tiny Loops, Hold Me Closer
- Roden Pointers, Masterclasses, X100Vs, Billionaire Universities
- Website walkkumano.com/iseji notes Craig walked it S→N in May 2019
Ōmine Okugake-michi, Yoshino → Kumano Hongū (stage two of the spring 2019 walk)
Yoshino → Sanjōgatake (Ōmine-sanji) → Misen → Shakagatake → Ōmine ridgeline (camping on ledges) → Tamaki Jinja (camped) → Kumano Hongū Taisha / Oyunohara
With John and the great Asamura-san
Pop-up: SW945 season 2 (Kyoto → Hongū leg)
- Ridgeline Root Appreciation
- Ridgeline Special photo edition: Didn’t Die in the Mountains
- Ridgeline The Unresolved Walk, the Best Walk
- Ridgeline SW945: The Sound of a Walk in Japan
- Ridgeline Walking Nan Shepherd’s Mountain
- Ridgeline The Buzz Cut
- Ridgeline The Year in Walking — 2021
- Ridgeline A walk around Kii in the New York Times
- Podcast SW945 S02 E02 Sanjōgatake; E05 Tamaki Jinja tent; E06 Oyunohara
- Huh Huh S01I05 ‘Omine’, S01I09 ‘Mountain’
- Roden 710.14km Later
- Roden Membership Programs, Year Two
- Roden Pop-up Newsletters, Great Photo Books, Olympic Level Ennui, Vaxxing
Nakasendō — Kamakura → Tokyo → Kyoto (stage one of the spring 2019 walk)
Kamakura (Daibutsu hiking course) → Yokohama → Tokyo/Nihonbashi → Urawa → Saitama pachinko row → Usui Pass → Karuizawa (Mampei Hotel, day 9) → Wada Pass → Shimosuwa → Shiojiri → Kiso-ji (Narai, Tsumago, Magome) → Ōi → Mitake → Gifu → Sekigahara → Hikone/Maibara → Kusatsu → Ōtsu (Bashō’s grave, day 25) → Kyoto (Sanjō Ōhashi)
With Alex Smith for the first 15 km and David for two days
Pop-up: SW945 season 1 (binaural podcast, 25 episodes) + The SMS Project (Apr 15–May 14 2019)
- Book Kissa by Kissa: How to Walk Japan, Book One
- Book The SMS Book / Pachinko Road: Walk With Me
- Ridgeline A Few Feet Above the Earth
- Ridgeline Boredom and the Long Walk
- Ridgeline Walk Rhythms, SMS Publishing
- Ridgeline The Curious Incident in the Bath in the Day-time
- Ridgeline Inoh Tadataka and the Tools of a Walk
- Ridgeline Scale
- Ridgeline End of an Era
- Ridgeline That Shinkansen Whoosh
- Ridgeline The Unresolved Walk, the Best Walk
- Ridgeline Responses to SMSes – Part 1
- Ridgeline Responses to SMSes – Part 2
- Ridgeline A Review of Beds — Part 1
- Ridgeline Responses to SMSes — Part 3
- Ridgeline A Review of a Bed — Part 2
- Ridgeline A Billion Billion Steps
- Ridgeline Pizza Toast Tales: Thompson
- Ridgeline Pizza Toast Tales: Alps
- Ridgeline Responses to SMSs Part 4
- Ridgeline Kodomo-no-hi
- Ridgeline Kissa by Kissa by Book by Launch
- Ridgeline Karuizawa
- Ridgeline The Buzz Cut
- Ridgeline Diary Entry: March 19, 2021
- Ridgeline A Livestream Talk + Q&A
- Ridgeline Walking the Kiso-ji [Part 1]
- Essay Walking Across Japan, Disconnected and Bored
- Essay SMS Publishing
- Essay Packing for the Long Walk
- Essay My Epic Quest for Pizza Toast
- Podcast SW945 season 1
- Roden A Retreat, a Walk, SMS Publishing, Advice to a Young Me
- Roden 710.14km Later
- Roden Tiny Loops, Hold Me Closer
- Roden Fast Software, Paid Newsletters, Novels
- Roden Mastery
- Roden Of Kissa and Toast
- Roden Process: Words and Pictures and Walking
- Video Pizza Toast & Coffee: Kissa Būgen; The Craft of ‘Kissa by Kissa’
- Talk Yale Publishing Course keynote; Postlight NYC ‘Books and Long Walks’; Figma Config ‘Two Books and a Long Walk’
Mountain bath day-walk west of Tokyo (‘The Curious Incident in the Bath’)
Walks ‘in the mountains west of Tokyo’ near an unnamed favourite bath (location intentionally withheld)
With an unnamed bathing companion
Manhattan day-walks (end of the CERN → London → NYC trip)
≈30 km around Manhattan over the week
End-of-year Miura Peninsula walk (Misaki → Kamakura)
Hostel in Misaki on Dec 30, then a ten-hour walk up through the hills of the Miura Peninsula ‘the whole way back up to Kamakura’ on Dec 31
With Chris
Ōmine Okugake ‘draft’ walk with John — the root (autumn 2018)
Four days of the Ōmine Okugake-michi checking huts and water sources; a 12-hour third day; went over a 30 m edge in the sasa at twilight and was saved by a tree root
With John
- Ridgeline Root Appreciation
- Ridgeline Special photo edition: Didn’t Die in the Mountains
- Ridgeline Typhoon Stroll
- Ridgeline Walking Nan Shepherd’s Mountain
- Essay Getting the iPad to Pro
- Other Zoom field recordings — the pre-SW945 walking recordings
Camino Portugués walk-and-talk, Tui → Santiago de Compostela
Last ≈120 km of the Camino Portugués, Tui (Spanish border) → Santiago de Compostela; train Madrid → Vigo between the two Caminos
With Kevin Kelly and eight others
- Roden The Walk ’n Talk & the Camino de Santiago
- Roden A Retreat, a Walk, SMS Publishing, Advice to a Young Me
- Ridgeline How to Walk and Talk
- Ridgeline A Walk is a Platform for Creative Work
- Ridgeline Europe Walking, New Pop-up Newsletter — MIBAW
- Ridgeline Walking to Bath, London’s Greatness
- Ridgeline Walk and Talk — The Portuguese Coastal Camino
- External Trey Ratcliff — Stuck in Customs podcast series from the walk
Camino Francés, St-Jean-Pied-de-Port over the Pyrenees (first 140 km)
St-Jean-Pied-de-Port → over the Pyrenees → Roncesvalles → Pamplona (c. Sep 18) → Estella and on; ≈140 km of the ‘standard’ French Camino
With Oli — ‘the first person to walk the Camino de Santiago in jeans and Nike sneakers’
- Roden The Walk ’n Talk & the Camino de Santiago
- Roden The Explorers Club Membership
- Ridgeline Boredom and the Long Walk
- Ridgeline Travel / Walking Gear
- Ridgeline SW945: The Sound of a Walk in Japan
- Ridgeline The Walk and Talk: Everything We Know
- Ridgeline Talking While Walking the Camino Francés in Spain
- Other Kumano Kodō × Camino ‘Dual Pilgrim’ badge
Dewa Sanzan yamabushi training (+ Rokujūrigoe again), summer 2018
Haguro / Gassan / Yudono (Dewa Sanzan) shugyō over ~a week in white robes and jikatabi — ‘running up and down Gassan in the cruel heart of summer’; plus the 60-Ri Goe Kaidō ‘again’ that year
With yamabushi training cohort (Haguro Shrine)
- Ridgeline Charcoal
- Ridgeline Ascetic Pants
- Ridgeline TBOT Cover and Three Mountains in Yamagata
- Roden The Walk ’n Talk & the Camino de Santiago
- Roden A Million Weird Tricks, a Few Centuries Distilled
- Roden Summer Heatray Days
Manpei Hotel → Yokokawa over the Usui Pass
Karuizawa (Manpei Hotel) → old Nakasendō over the Usui Pass → Yokokawa
Seto Inland Sea island walks with John McBride
Island-hopping the lesser-known art islands of the Setonaikai from Takamatsu (Awashima, Takamishima; Noguchi’s garden museum); ‘napped in the middle of open-air installations’
With John McBride
Kumano Kodō solo — Kōyasan → Kohechi → Hongū → Nachi (Koya Bound in reverse)
Kōyasan → Ōmata → Obako-tōge (Mar 30) → Miura-guchi → Totsukawa Onsen → Hongū → Koguchi → Dogiri-zaka (Ōgumotori-goe) → Nachi Taisha; Kohechi southbound then Nakahechi east — ‘a kind of reverse++ of the path I took in Koya Bound’
With M&M for the first three days
- Roden A Walk in Japan, an Art Observatory, Therapy in Server Work
- Roden Pilgrim Laundry, Rebel Girls, Sacred Mirrors
- Roden Meditation & Blisters, Money on Medium, Parents in Japan
- Essay Books, Walks, and the Edge of the World
- Podcast On Margins 006 — ‘To make a book, walk in the woods with a book’; On Margins 004 intro
- Other Instagram series #notkumanokodo; ‘The Best of Kumano Kodo’ Google Map
- Ridgeline SW945: The Sound of a Walk in Japan
Kumano Kodō day walks, Feb–Mar 2018 (the ‘other’ 2018 Kumano)
Kii-Tanabe → Takijiri (Shiomi-tōge, Feb 14); Yunomine → Funatama (Akagi-goe, Feb 22); Hayatama → Nachi (Feb 26); Kii-Tanabe → Takijiri (Mar 1–2)
Tokyo multi-day photo walk (January)
Harajuku/Omotesandō scouting (Jan 15), then ‘Day 2’–‘Day 4’ across the city (Jan 16–19)
Shin-etsu Trail
Shin-etsu Trail ridge walk on the Nagano/Niigata border (Sekida mountains), days 1 and 3–6 recorded
Rokujūrigoe Kaidō (60-Ri Road), Dewa Sanzan — Walk Japan Bashō trip
Rokujūrigoe Kaidō pilgrim road, Yamagata (Shōnai → Dewa Sanzan direction), 3 recorded days; Haguro-san / Yudono-san area
With John and a Walk Japan group
Nakahechi day sections, March 2017 (Hongū → Koguchi → Nachi)
Hongū → Yunomine (Dainichi-goe) → Hongū → Koguchi (Kogumotori-goe) → Nachi (Ōgumotori-goe)
Nakahechi day sections, January 2017 (Takijiri → Hosshinmon)
Takijiri → Takahara → Tsugizakura → Hosshinmon
Kōyasan New Year’s — Chōishi-michi climb
Kudoyama → Chōishi-michi → Kōyasan (Dec 30), New Year’s Eve on the mountain (Dec 31)
Kōyasan New Year’s Eves — other years (Chōishi-michi climbs)
New Year’s Eve in a Kōyasan temple lodging, then the ≈24 km Chōishi-michi (Kudoyama → Kōyasan) — done in T-shirts one year, abandoned after a few km in knee-deep snow another year
With hiking buddies (unnamed)
- Ridgeline Nagano, 125 Years Ago
- Ridgeline Long Walk Thinking
- Ridgeline The Year in Walking — 2021
Kumano Kodō Nakahechi with Kevin Kelly & Hugh Howey (the first walk-and-talk)
Nakahechi around Hongū: Hosshinmon/Yunomine → Hongū → Koguchi → Dogiri-zaka (Ōgumotori-goe) → Nachi (5 day-tracks)
With Kevin Kelly and Hugh Howey
- Essay Kevin Kelly and the Golden Age of World Travel
- Podcast On Margins 003 — Kevin Kelly
- Ridgeline Cocoon of Sleep
- Ridgeline How to Walk and Talk
- Ridgeline A Walk is a Platform for Creative Work
- Roden A Mountain Walk
- Roden Meditation & Blisters, Money on Medium, Parents in Japan
- Roden The Walk ’n Talk & the Camino de Santiago
Kiso Valley Golden Week walk (Ontake → Nakatsugawa)
Hida Kaidō day, then Nojiri → Tsumago → Magome → Ōi (Ena) → Hosokute → Mitake along the Nakasendō
With John
- Hi Pizza and trains and Mt. Ontake … Nakatsugawa
Koya Bound — Kumano Kodō Nakahechi + Kohechi to Kōyasan
Takijiri → Takahara → Tsugizakura → Hosshinmon → Hongū → Yunomine → Totsukawa Onsen → Miura-guchi → Ōmata → Kōyasan (Nakahechi then Kohechi northbound, ‘ever Koya-bound’)
With Dan Rubin and Matt Mullenweg
- Book Koya Bound: Eight Days on the Kumano Kodō
- Website walkkumano.com/koyabound — the precise log, GPX, elevation
- Essay To Make a Book, Walk on a Book
- Essay Books, Walks, and the Edge of the World
- Podcast On Margins 002 & 006 — Koya Bound economics
- Roden A Mountain Walk
- Roden Residency Dispatch
- Roden Pizza and Attention
- Roden Back From the Big City
- Roden Pilgrim Laundry, Rebel Girls, Sacred Mirrors
- Ridgeline The Cafe With a View of the Waterfall
- Ridgeline Country Texture, City Texture
- Ridgeline A Book from Pizza Toast — Part 1
- Ridgeline A Walk is a Platform for Creative Work
Mishima → Hakone over the old Tōkaidō
Mishima → Hakone Pass on the old Tōkaidō (Mar 22, 20 km), then a short Hakone walk (Mar 23, 9 km)
With John McBride
Kōyasan New Year ‘winterwalk’ — Chōishi-michi on New Year’s Eve
Kudoyama (5:45 a.m.) → Chōishi-michi → Daimon, Kōyasan on Dec 31; goma-taki at Eikōin, torch-run to a Shinto shrine on New Year’s Eve, Okunoin cemetery walks in snow
With two friends
- Essay The Leica Q
- Huh Huh S01I17 ‘Koyasan’ — the NYE torch photo
- Ridgeline Nagano, 125 Years Ago
- Ridgeline Long Walk Thinking
Shikoku 88-temple pilgrimage sampler (≈30 temples)
Tokushima temples 1–5 area (Nov 26) → Minami-chō / temple 23 Yakuōji (Nov 28) → Kōchi coast → Matsuyama (Dec 2, morning chants) → Sanuki-shi, Nyotai-san / temples 87–88 (Dec 4); Shugendō fire ceremony, temple funicular; transit between sections
With John McBride, Kevin Kelly and others
- Essay The Leica Q
- Roden Infinite Pilgrimage
- Ridgeline Charcoal
- Ridgeline Responses to SMSes – Part 2
- Ridgeline The Rigor of Process
- Ridgeline Long Walk Thinking
Kohechi northbound (Yunomine → Kōyasan) with John, plus Yuasa / Tsushima / Chōishi-michi days
Yuasa (soy-sauce town) 12 km → Shingū; Yunomine Onsen (Tsuboyu) → Hongū Taisha → Kohechi to Totsukawa Onsen (25 km) → Miuraguchi (14) → Ōmata (16) → Kōyasan / Okunoin (17); rest; Kudoyama → Chōishi-michi → Kōyasan day (Apr 21, ‘The artists eat’); earlier a 12 km hike on Tsushima
With John McBride and a group of artists
- Roden A Fifteen Day Itinerary
- Hi To the mountains; The artists eat
Kōyasan Nyonin-michi in the snow
Gokurakubashi Station → Nyonin-michi (women’s pilgrim path) → Daimon; overnight at a shukubō; planned 22 km Chōishi-michi abandoned for snow
With two unnamed travel companions
- Roden Mountain Snow, Fire Prayer
- Video Kōyasan snow video
Kiso-ji with Kevin Kelly (first walk together)
Nojiri → Ne-no-ue Pass → Tsumago (Kiso Valley, Nakasendō); Hi.co moment in Nagiso Oct 16 2014; ‘the descent into Nagano’
With Kevin Kelly
- Essay A Need to Walk
- Essay Kevin Kelly and the Golden Age of World Travel
- Ridgeline A Walk is a Platform for Creative Work
- Ridgeline Walking the Kiso-ji [Part 1]
- Ridgeline Meeting Kevin
- Ridgeline Between Two Mountains — A New Pop-up Newsletter
- Ridgeline Walk and Talk — The Portuguese Coastal Camino
- Roden A Mountain Walk
- Hi Good morning :)
Kyushu / Yakushima walk-train-walk trip
Tokyo → Kirishima → Kagoshima → Ibusuki → Yakushima (May 5, yakusugi hikes) → Uto/Kumamoto → Unzen → Nagasaki (May 8) → Karatsu (May 10, Yōyokaku) → Kyoto (May 11–12)
With a few friends (unnamed; Ridgeline 055 implies John McBride)
- Essay Brando’s Room
- Ridgeline Flawless Mechanisms
- Ridgeline The Rigor of Process
- Hi The adventure begins / Field testing the D3
Kamakura ridge hike with the Hi team
Kita-Kamakura station → Daibutsu hiking course over the ridge → Great Buddha (climbed inside it); coffee brewed on the mountain
With Chris Palmieri and Amal
- Hi The mountain pour
Takao-san New Year night hike
Night ascent of Mt. Takao (Hachiōji) for hatsumōde / first sunrise
With ‘Takao-San crew 2014’ (unnamed friends)
- Hi Hike begins
Iiyama ‘thousand god walk’ + Nozawa Onsen
Iiyama (Nagano) — ‘the thousand tree walk / thousand god walk’; public onsen at Nozawa Onsen
- Hi Public onsen roofs
Kumano Kodō with John McBride (the first ‘walk walk’)
Kudoyama → Chōishi-michi up to Kōyasan (Daimon) → Kōyasan → Nakahechi (Takijiri/Tanabe → Hongū Taisha) → Kumano River by flat-bottomed boat to Shingū (Hayatama Taisha) → Nachi / Nachikatsuura → Ise Grand Shrine (62nd Shikinen Sengū year)
With John and David and Derro
- Essay Cameras, Goodbye
- Essay A Need to Walk
- Hi Wayfinding to the trailhead / The John Effect; To the boat; A wall of hinoki
- Huh Huh S01I21 ‘Wayfinding’ and S01I18
- Ridgeline Isobars
- Ridgeline The Rigor of Process
- Ridgeline A Walk is a Platform for Creative Work
- Book Things Become Other Things
Paris flâneur walk (the Fitbit walk)
Les Deux Magots → Luxembourg Gardens → Rue de Fleurus (Stein’s apartment) → Montparnasse → Les Invalides → Eiffel Tower (climbed the stairs)
Kōyasan temple retreat (first Kōyasan visit)
Four nights / five days in a temple lodging on ‘a mountain south of Kyoto’ (almost certainly Kōyasan): morning meditation, late-morning walks through the Okunoin forest cemetery
- Essay On Permission
- Ridgeline My Next Book: Things Become Other Things
Annapurna Base Camp trek
Pokhara → Annapurna Sanctuary valleys → Machapuchare Base Camp → Annapurna Base Camp (4,130 m) → back to Kathmandu
With a Nepalese guide (‘became like a younger brother to me’)
- Essay GF1 Field Test — 16 Days in the Himalayas
- Essay Annapurna Moonrise
- Essay Tools and Creative Permission
- Ridgeline A Walk is a Platform for Creative Work
- Ridgeline Drumming is a Kind of Walking
Mt. Fuji off-season climb
Fifth station → summit → back down (hitchhiked to the fifth station; mountain officially closed, snow at the top)
With a friend (unnamed)
- Ridgeline King of Summer No Tan
- Ridgeline A Walk Through Kagurazaka
- Roden Decisions, In-Person Joy, Mt. Fuji, Also — Skin Cancer