Though it rambles here and there, a few firm philosophies underpin this column.
Spend time exploring the terrain with a local guide on a tailored full-day trek - the district offers everything from easy rambles to challenging hikes.
Mr Gros is a prodigious walker, going on hours-long rambles at times when not deskbound by his academic post.
And while rural rambles are still popular, fewer people are walking to their weekly grocery shop.
Mr Angell casts the story as a tragic drama about an ageing competitor and the emotional strain of coming to terms with lost greatness.The book rambles at times, and the game's jargon, nicknames and famous moments are seldom explained, which is likely to baffle the uninitiated.
They may have to hang up their ropes and carabiners and settle for rambles in the foothills.But the optimists think it is possible to avoid losing altitude by building a bridge between where they are and where they would like to be.
Mr Schwartz's book contains extraordinary and fascinating stories of Bosnia's Jews, many of whom came there after being expelled from Christian Spain in 1492.Occasionally, his writing rambles or turns to a rant about Bosnia's war-time fate, and his academic inquiry may prove too dense for some lay readers.
Irksome, too, are the places where Mr Chaudhuri's theorising rambles far from the text where it began.
A substantial part of school time is now dedicated to learning passages from the "Rukhnama" (Book of the Soul), in which President Saparmurat Niyazov rambles on about practically everything, from proper social behaviour and morals to the motherland and its glorious leader.
The writing often rambles and its in-your-face tone may not appeal to everyone.
In the United States, the American Volkssport Federation is an umbrella organization made up of more than 500 local walking clubs nationwide that promote recreational walking and organize group walks or rambles.
