My first North American walk
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This weekend I was lucky enough to be invited out for a bit of a day walk with some people from work. Unfortunately most of my outdoors gear is still in transit. This meant that I had to do a quick dash down to the local camping gear store (REI) to pick up some hiking boots amongst other things. I ended up with a nice pair of Asolo’s.
Although the weather was fine when we left town, we hit lots of fog and drizzle on the highway to our starting point. It didn’t look like it was going to be too pleasant but we made a start anyway. It turns out that the weather wasn’t too bad at all - no wind, not too cold, a little sunshine at times.
After a challenging climb up the snow covered ridge we eventually made it to our lunch spot.
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The hardest bit for me was communicating distance and measurements. I ended up setting my GPS to feet/miles just so that the other’s could understand what I was saying 
It’s also good practice for me to do the conversions.
It was a great walk and we were all quite amused comparing some of the differences between Australia and America. They’re also considering training to attempt the summit of Mt. Rainier next year - I’m in!
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You now use a GPS? What happened to the map and compass? Sounds like a great day hike Grant and I am sure that differences in terminology became apparent quite quickly with your US colleagues. I miss the hiking bit soooo much.
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mark
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