Letters to my solitary hiking sisters* – template
Letter foreword
- describe your former hiking experience before that trail and why you chose to take part
- Where do you live? (not in Finland? New to Finland/Helsinki region? Helsinki? other part of Finland?) How familiar have you been with the area before the hike? Is it part of your (extended) nearby nature?
-How was your own preparation before the hike? - when did you hike? name the time and describe the weather/temperature circumstances
- Did you hike alone or in a “alone but together”-group hike?
- When did you write that letter?
You can choose one of the swamp feathers for your cover picture of your letter!
- Quote (from trailguide/ your own, without comment or with own thoughts)
- Hiking day: Use structure from reflection template and/or your hiking diary
What makes hiking alone for you special? Benefits of hiking alone?
Link to your daily life and thougts about time alone?
- Quote (from trailguide/ your own, without comment or with own thoughts)
- Hiking day: Use structure from reflection template and/or your hiking diary
What did you experience as helpful from the workshop/alone but together concept regarding obstacles of hiking alone like fear (or others)?
Regarding fear, what did help you on this hike? Other things you remember while hiking before, what helped?
- Quote (from trailguide/ your own, without comment or with own thoughts)
- Hiking day: Use structure from reflection template and/or your hiking diary
How did you experience the alone but together—group hiking concept? How often did you meet? Could you still feel “the hiking alone” effect?
How was the experience to hike the trail completely alone, but be part of the workshop/reflection group?
- Quote (from trailguide/ your own, without comment or with own thoughts)
- Hiking day: Use structure from reflection template and/or your hiking diary
How was the experience to hike on a “DIY-trail” ? (Compared to maybe other hiking experience like wil- derness areas or marked hiking trails?
What new hiking skills did you learn?
Can you imagine to build up your own trails (to your nearby nature) in the future? Would you hike this trail again?
What are your thoughts on “hiking as a daily practice”? From walking, nights outdoors etc.? Are you planing to build in something in your daily life after that hike? Or did you already tried somethign out/ hiked again, between the hike and writing the letter?
- Quote (from trailguide/ your own, without comment or with own thoughts)
- Hiking day: Use structure from reflection template and/or your hiking diary
In the context of your former writing experience, how was the experience to write diary on this trail?
- Quote (from trailguide/ your own, without comment or with own thoughts)
- Hiking day: Use structure from reflection template and/or your hiking diary
Own thoughts on hiking & body-liberation
Letter – additional information
- Language: you can write in your mother tongue or English. Maybe after writing hiking diary and the reflection template in your mother tongue, switching to English for the letter, can have the effect after reflecting for yourself now writing for others (and yourself of course)
- Paper or computer: You could write per hand, if it’s possible to read and send me a copy, I would even offer to type it to the computer. Or write directly on the computer, as you have your hiking diary written per hand 🙂
- Publishing on website/partly instagram –> former solitary hiking sisters* will get the letter info per mail & you also get their letter infos per mail 🙂
- This template is only an idea for a a structure, you can also modify it. Most important, that it feels good. You can also draw/paint etc.
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