Kai Yamamoto
The Peak District

Kai Yamamoto

Walks the same five miles every morning. Draws maps from memory, mostly wrong.

  1. noteThe first cold morning
    1 min
  2. noteA map of the kitchen
    1 min
  3. A year of walking the same five miles

    Same route, every morning, whatever the weather. I have never paid so much attention to anything.

    evergreen 4 min
  4. noteBlackberries
    1 min
  5. noteA walk with no destination
    1 min
  6. Drawing maps of places from memory

    Draw a place from memory and you learn how little you looked at it. Then walk it again.

    seedling 4 min
  7. noteCow parsley
    1 min
  8. noteFirst light at seven
    1 min
  9. Walking in the rain is underrated

    Empty paths, loud smells, puddles like mirrors, and the best part: coming home.

    evergreen 3 min
  10. noteThe shortest walk
    1 min
  11. Looking after a pair of boots for nine years

    A brush, a tin of wax and ten minutes a week. Everything I do to keep old boots walking.

    budding Members 3 min
  12. The seventy-two small seasons

    My grandmother's old calendar of five-day seasons, and a local version for an English valley.

    seedling 3 min
  13. Keeping a nature calendar

    One page for each week, and the first time I see something. Three years of saying hello to the year.

    evergreen 3 min

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