How about a hike?

[Gaul]

So I was thinking about making a hike through the location, where the game takes place, maybe take a
photo or two. Then make a report about it in the forums.

But then I thought that maybe more people would like to do this. So why not plan a hike with more
people who are interested in the time period, the game and the beautiful Czech countryside.

I thought about some ways of doing this:

1. 2 day hike (we’d sleep somewhere in the forest), this will give us the time to see all the castles, visit some interesting places in the countryside (and try the beer in local pubs J)

2. 1 day hike (we’d start in the morning and end around night fall) we could decide what we want to see most and plan the route accordingly.

The place in actually a pretty common destination for hikers (there are quite a lot of hiking paths as seen on the map).

http://www.mapy.cz/#!x=14.927432&y=49.858457&z=12&l=16

Transport (as far as reaching the place goes) would also be no problem, since there is a very good train
link.

So what do you say?

[Swampous]

Sleeping in forest? Sounds cool, but I dunno :D…

[evil_blond_goth]

Interesting idea, but correct me if I am wrong are there still not bears in that part of Europ as a whole?!

Infact I am sure there are as my brother was married to a lady from just outside of Praug and on one of his many holidays over there , he said there was a town (where they fillmed one of the Hostle films, forgive me for compleetly forgetting the towns name) that had a huge castle with a dired out mote.

There where trees in the mote and, as it was quite as vast mote there where bears living it. So yeah random capming in woods might not be the safest of ideas; but I love the idea of haveing a hike around the locations if I was rich I’d have pledged the highest tear just for the guided tours alone, let alone the personalised sword and sheild.

[Swampous]

Bears unfortunately doesn’t live in Czech republic anymore, but I heard something about them returning trough some underpass or something…wolves used to live here too, not anymore…

Campfire isnt safe and its actually lawless

[Senseless]

Sounds interesting. If time, money and some other minor details fit, I might be in.

@evil_blond_goth: [quote]if I was rich I’d have pledged the highest tear just for the guided tours alone, let alone the personalised sword and sheild.[/quote] ^ this

[Freix]

Bears and wolves do live in the Czechia, though they are very rare and only in a few particular locations (Sumava, Beskydy). They returned in the last few years from other states. However, they definitely shouldn’t be around Rataje and hence there is nothing to worry about.

[Athad]

When I ws a kid we used to camp in the bush all the time (west coast of Canada) we had a lot more bears, wolfes and other preditors and never got eaten. I’m more worried about people.

[uajii]

Just because there are [bears at the castle][1] it doesn’t mean they live in the wild too.
[1]: http://www.castle.ckrumlov.cz/docs/en/zamek_1nadvori_mpriko.xml

[evil_blond_goth]

I was not told the where kept bears. The way it was described to me made it seem they where in fact wild, there was really no need for such sarcasm in ones reply; I did say I was not sure, plus another poster has also said there are some bears in the wild in the Chzechia just as others had said there are not.

Either way my personal view stays the same, I would not be keen on camping in unfamiliar woods and I worry abou people and wildlife equally if they are potentialy dangerouse for what ever reason. Heard enough storys from my dad who went many places during his years in the RAF to know you don’t put yourself in a even more dodgy sittuation in a potentialy hostile enviroment, though poor choices.

Plus I do camp quite regularlyand I do freely admit I like preffer a heated enviroment, it was so cold at one recent event I acctually considered dragging my sleeping bag into the disable toilets and sleeping in there because they had a radiator in, I wanted to feel my toes again; and that was with sleeping in my kit ( a linen shift and woolen/ linen linned kurtle) with three layers of socks, two extra blankets. Yup I don’t do cold weather I am a wuss.

Anyway this has shot way off topic, would I, if I had the money and time, like to do a tour of the locations used in the game, 100% yes.

[Freix]

I would be also afraid of camping in woods in a foreign unknown country so I understand your concerns, but I can asure you czech woods are really safe. I would say you are in much more danger walking on a road than sleeping in a forrest.

[wkstrm]

As a comparision, I spent 4½ month driving around in Africa and bush camping more or less every night. I probably spent about 2 weeks in hotels, all the other time me and the people I was going with campin. Sometimes camping at real camp sites but mostly we did bush camping. I remember one particular interesting place to bush camp was in Botswana, the land of lions. Of all the countries in the south eastern Africa Botswana is the country with the highest amount of lions.

Now, most of the time it’s no worries really because lions do avoid humans most of the time, and I say most of the time. One day in the morning when we crawled out of our tents we found foot prints on the ground in the size of a smaller plate. Cat foot prints.
Couple of days later, when struggling through the Kalahari desert, right after we started moving again after lunch we saw 3 lions cross our path, and I swear, this was just a minute after we had breaked our camp. Never during my time there I was afraid of the wild animals, but I did treat them with respect at the times when we encountered them.

Now, what does this has to do with bears in Chzech Replublic? If you encounter a wild animal, enjoy the moment, this is something not many people will do any more because civilization is slowly killing the “wild”. If you surprise a wild animal, they might react in a hostile way, if you back away they will too. We have bears in Sweden too, but the occasions when someone gets attacked by a bear is very rare (funny enough it did happend like 1 day ago or so). Most of the time bear attacks are not fatal anyway.

[wkstrm]

I would love this, but I’m not sure my time in Czech will allow this, nor my girlfriend. Also, I guess this will not time well with my planned trip through Europe anyway. Starting in August in Croatia, then moving to Budapest, Bratislava, Vienna, Czesky Krumlow, Prague (and Kutna Hora) and then finishing in Krakow, Poland.

[Gaul]

So exam time is over… I am planing a one day hike at 28.6. (leaving Prague “early” in the morning and getting back before night time). If anybody likes to come with me replay on my post.

(sorry for my bad english)