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What we’re about

Escape from your city & feel the benefits of exercising outdoors:
as spending a few hours in nature can boost your mood and well being!

Since February 2012 we've been setting up (about twice a month) all-day hikes, half-day bike rides or afternoon walks.
Come out with us to discover (together with locals & internationals) the very interesting landscape diversity of the greater Paris' area known as "Ile-de-France".
This group has been very influencial over the years, being the 1st french led group describing the hikes in english mostly - & setting up new standards of quality both in the events' description as well as during the events:
like a meeting time 15 minutes before the train departing time, stopping for lunch-breaks in scenic areas whenever possible, a pre-hike briefing of do's and don'ts, a useful list of what to bring to the hike, ...

To make things convenient most of our events start from locations easy to reach by the Métro or using suburban trains (RER network).

The level of our hikes is easy/moderate, but never too hard - usually it's 15 to 24 km all day or afternoon hikes (at the very average pace of about 4,5 km/hour - easy to follow if you are just a bit sporty).

Our Mountain bike rides events will also never be above level "moderate".

Our events are not often cancelled for a "bad weather reason" because even if it's sometimes raining for a short time or not too warm during the day,  it's just so good for health (incl. the immune system) to be exercising in the great outdoors for a couple of hours,
... among other benefits of hiking & relaxed cycling.

We may ask for a 3 to 5€ fee to join our hikes but it is not to make any profit, just to COMPENSATE for the time, the training (by French Hiking Federation), the efforts and the costs incurred in setting up quality events, by the person(s) leading the hikes or the bike rides.

However we have nothing to sell in this group: we are not professionals, & certainly not trying to get the biggest number of guests/events/new members,
& we don't need to use the common marketing tools (FB, twitter, instagram etc.) or to "maximize" our number of participants at each event!

Also do not expect to find here any commercial speech (using a great number of superlatives to attract more people &/or photos made by professionals, etc.) in the description of our events: since 2012 we are only genuine hikers in this group so we only use simple words ...

The photos made by the participants talk for ourselves - so please take a look at our several photo albums if you want to get an idea of how and where our events take place.
Join our events & get some exercise outdoors while having fun and meeting others … quite a program!

Looking forward to meeting you at our next event, 
Nous espérons vous retrouver très bientôt sur les chemins d'Ile-de-France !

Chris and the group's occasional hike leaders.