Michael Stieb
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- Time of past OR future Camino
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I have to ask, what to you think the Camino terrain is made of?
I have never used line skates, but I doubt they would do well over mud puddles in the woods, or over stones laid to cross streams, and one would think that over tractor tracks things may be a bit iffy. And the thought of rolling backwards on the Napolean or O'cebreiro routes...
Don't you need a fairly flat surfice to use these?
I didn't say this, but am inclined to agree.Many people would not be happy with the circus-ization factor. Has anyone ever done the Camino on a unicycle (probably)? Walking backwards? With an elephant? Wearing a tutu?
Unicycle - slow, quiet, quaintly anarchic, risky, unhinged, whimsical, somehow self-effacing. A non-threatening, vulnerable and therefore particularly human conveyance. An apt choice for The Camino, perhaps.saw someone doing it on a unicycle the first time I walked it...
saw someone doing it on a unicycle the first time I walked it...
NoHello, I was wondering if anyone has completed the TRAIL on inline skates? There are off road Nordic skates available and wondered if anyone has used them on the actual trail to complete?
Thanks,
Michael
My own feeling about wheels on the Camino is that, while they are permitted
Yeah, I suspected a troll as well, but I suppose not too far fetched a trolling subject as there are people out there I am sure actually thinking about an inline Camino, ha ha.Pretty sure this is someone just trying to wind us all up. Looks like it worked too!
Really? Go for it I am sure you will buen caminoing your way along in grand style.Hello, I was wondering if anyone has completed the TRAIL on inline skates? There are off road Nordic skates available and wondered if anyone has used them on the actual trail to complete?
Thanks,
Michael
Not me. I'm not wound up about it in the slightest!Pretty sure this is someone just trying to wind us all up. Looks like it worked too!
Love to see him going up O'Cebreiro.I would want to see them going up the Alto!
An indelicate expression - "...my arse off" - used after terms like "working" or "laughing" for emphasis. Perhaps not a colloquial term in your part of the world.ROFL I understand. But MAO?
agreed...nothing to get wound up about in the leastNot me. I'm not wound up about it in the slightest!
Well, if it's not clear yet, I'll translate: if you don't walk, you're an alien. And you're bound to be disregarded/disliked/hated.Has anyone ever done the Camino on a unicycle (probably)? Walking backwards? With an elephant? Wearing a tutu? - Inline skates on the CF? Really? Sigh. - I have to accept the presence of cyclists with the little good grace I can muster. - inline skates to me are no different than a bike or a horse I share a path with
Have any proper pedestrian here ever came across someone telling them there were no good reason to walk across Spain in a century that can just drive/land you in Santiago?I can't see any good reason to do it this way except for bragging rights - it begs the question: why?
Just go somewhere else. Why? Well, you're not walking. Yep, that's it. Oh, and also because...why not try The Grand Canyon? - maybe you should consider a different trail
Translation: it's a pilgrimage, you pagan! A true spiritual adventure you shall not spoil with your crude frivolities!This is not just a TRAIL, but a Camino - If you are doing this as a Camino then I wish you well
ummm.....you do realize that the OP in all likelihood started the thread as a joke, don't you?Hi Michael, welcome
Sorry, no idea if it can really be done, but I've seen some pretty amazing videos on the subject that makes me think it is possible... There are all kinds of grounds on the Camino, from big rocks to paved roads, hard and soft. It may be wrong, but I'm thinking if bikes/unicycle (yep!)/boards (yep! too) do it, why not off road skates?
Like @Doogman, I tell you go for it! Prep well, experiment, enjoy! And please, share you Camino with us!
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And then again, here I am feeling angry-sad-sorry(-pity?) to read such intolerance...Oh yeah, there is some tolerance around: the feeble "everyone does his-her own Camino" is still around.
But truly, it's otherwise. What mostly crossed my mind while reading this thread was "Who the **** do you proper pedestrian pilgrim think you are????" Pardon my French. And of course, I also thought of the answer: "Well, 'true' pilgrims, obviously!" Chosen bits here and there:
Well, if it's not clear yet, I'll translate: if you don't walk, you're an alien. And you're bound to be disregarded/disliked/hated.
Have any proper pedestrian here ever came across someone telling them there were no good reason to walk across Spain in a century that can just drive/land you in Santiago?
Let me return you the question: why? I mean, except for bragging rights of course.
Just go somewhere else. Why? Well, you're not walking. Yep, that's it. Oh, and also because...
Translation: it's a pilgrimage, you pagan! A true spiritual adventure you shall not spoil with your crude frivolities!
Although literally, it doesn't mean anything. "Camino" means "way", "trail", "road", "path" (out of the dictionary). And even if I take "Camino" a little more spiritually (which I do myself, so which I get), it still doesn't mean much here.
Because the Camino is 1 single trail of dirt/rock/mud/whatever, but has many faces. And has always had! It's never been only a pilgrimage route through History, whatever tales are told on the Way. There were no Camino until the 20th century! Today, it's a pilgrimage as well as a cultural itinerary as a touristic attraction as a sport trail as an international meeting ground as ... as ... as ... .
So, dear fellow proper pedestrian pilgrims, I truly wish for us all to go back on the Camino. Obviously, you've got some tolerance to learn (or, if you prefer it told that way: inline skaters have to teach you some tolerance). Or elsewhere yourselves (for a change), as you don't seem to get it there...
Pick your Camino. And deal with the others, because whether you like it or not, the Camino has many identities that all have a right and a reason to be. Especially today, when spirituality makes more and more sense through materiality.
I don't intent to point fingers to people, but to an attitude that is a true and big part of the Camino. Its dark but very real side I sometimes get sick of.
I know I've been direct and sarcastic here and if I'm censored, so be it. It won't change the attitude I try to denounce, neither the fact than non-proper pilgrims are mostly welcomed that way and certainly feel the same than I do right now.
Angry-sad-sorry-pitying pilgrim troll out.
I don't think a bell will be necessary. You'll hear the ear splitting screams and the snapping bones a long way off. IMHO.Thank you one and all for the good laugh. Enjoyed each and every post. Am assuming that like the vast majority of bicycles on the Camino, inline skates do not come complete with a bell. Having literally ended up in a bush beside the path as a result of a near brush with yet another stealth cyclist I can only imagine the fun you will have scooting by pilgrims on inline skates. And if you want to take the example of most cycle pilgrims further you must say a cheery and extremely loud 'buen camino' just after you've snuck up on the unsuspecting walking pilgrim because that compounds the element of surprise. My advice to you is go for it. You should have a heap of fun and so will everyone else.
Hi Michael,Hello, I was wondering if anyone has completed the TRAIL on inline skates? There are off road Nordic skates available and wondered if anyone has used them on the actual trail to complete?
Thanks,
Michael
Ah, but I knew that. That 'trail' has been part of our Way to the Sundering Seas for a few millennia but we don't mind anyone else using it so long as they show it a bit of respectTranslation: it's a pilgrimage, you pagan!
Smells like a troll. Probly them Russkies. That hacker Putin again. I say build a wall around The Camino. Geez.
Hi Sabine,Hi Mike...do you know the secret code/ handshake to get in ?
@Michael Stieb , I watched this video-Patinando el camino / Skating the Way.
Looked actually inspiring. There are further links shown at the end of the video but I did not check them out. I think the skater is a Spanish woman, apparently born in Santiago de Compostela.
Alas, it's not because you typed he is a joke that he is. 5-7 years ago thinking of the type of people we now see on the Camino would also have seemed as a joke, and yet they fill up the bars from Sarria to Santiago.ummm.....you do realize that the OP in all likelihood started the thread as a joke, don't you?
Whilst this video does show someone skating the highway in norther Spain and I think I recognised some of the scenes (apart from the Cruz de Ferro) - it does not appear that she followed the Camino to any great extent. No scenes from the Meseta; climbing that hill west of Castrojeriz for example. Other BIG plus - she was supported all the way!
OK - she does not "appear" to follow the suggested "walkers" camino trail. As for getting into Burgos (from Belorado) there is no way she could have followed the camino from Villafranca and especially the 3-5 km immediately west of Atapuerca on those skates - I did cross this section on my bike but it was a real struggle. I walked about 3 km that dayI wasn't planning on defending or criticizing this enterprise. When you say that she didn't "follow the Camino to any great extent", you are probably saying that she did not follow the prescribed hiking trail step by step. A quick look on the map leaves me puzzled as to how one cannot haved crossed the meseta if one did about 1000 km on skates from Saint Jean Pied de Port via Burgos, Astorga and Ponferrada?
By "racing bikes" do you mean the ones that the professional cyclists ride in the Tour de France? If yes then the answer is NIL. However I did encounter a number of people riding bikes with tyres around 19/22 mm width (road tyres) as opposed to the real off-road tyres that I had on my hybrid-mountain bike.To go on a pilgrimage to Santiago, by whatever means, from the humbler to the gaudiest, does not require "following the Camino". And -- how many racing bike pilgrims have you ever encountered on the dirt trails in the Meseta ?
there is no way she could have followed the camino from Villafranca and especially the 3-5 km immediately west of Atapuerca on those skates
By "racing bikes" do you mean the ones that the professional cyclists ride in the Tour de France? If yes then the answer is NIL. However I did encounter a number of people riding bikes with tyres around 19/22 mm width (road tyres) as opposed to the real off-road tyres that I had on my hybrid-mountain bike.
So much for the (? ... what then?) who are millions to go to Rome, Jerusalem, Lourdes, Mecca, Medina, the Ganges, ........ and so many other sacred places by plane/train/bus/car. Too bad guys, Santiago de Compostela set the rule! This pilgrimage's compulsory features are an exception in pilgrimages? No matter, that's the way it is!If you want to be a pilgrim, just walk.
There are a bunch of videos on YouTube of her going to obviously great effort. She does wear double-wheel cross-country skates during one brief shot in the song video, but is walking in them. On the gravel sections she always walks wearing the road skates. She appears in the other videos during a lot of rainy weather, and looks very worn down so it was a long grind, no doubt. I only saw her carrying a small pack once, so support from someone, also someone else did all the shooting. I don't speak Spanish so I can't tell if there is a charitable donation theme to the whole project. Hats off to her regardless.I think that accusing the OP of trolling is greatly disrespectful and wrongful -- despite some people's apparently over-romantic notions that there's some sort of template that all pilgrims must conform with, we're all of us still just fellow pilgrims on the Way dealing with all of our choices, compromises, and sufferings.
Putative and theoretical inline skates projects, quite apart from being fun in their own right, are not antithetical to the Way of Saint James.
Hello, I was wondering if anyone has completed the TRAIL on inline skates? There are off road Nordic skates available and wondered if anyone has used them on the actual trail to complete?
Thanks,
Michael
I think the OP may indeed have been a troll.The OP has not returned since his post at 11.39pm last Sunday. I do hope he hasn't fallen off his skates...
I met Simon from Utrecht (The Netherlands) this year in Astorga. He did his camino on inline skates and the parts were he could not skate he walked. He told that he did not walked much.Hello, I was wondering if anyone has completed the TRAIL on inline skates? There are off road Nordic skates available and wondered if anyone has used them on the actual trail to complete?
Thanks,
Michael
Hi Michael,Hello, I was wondering if anyone has completed the TRAIL on inline skates? There are off road Nordic skates available and wondered if anyone has used them on the actual trail to complete?
Thanks,
Michael
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