"They dont compare at all" . . . LOL . . . that's the first thing I thought of when I saw the title so I'm glad Dixie said it first.

"Y'all quit that mess and everybody just needs to be sweet"... Love it, words to live by! Happy New Year Dixie!

@Syncop8rNZ

4 жыл бұрын

Should be a meme.... or a soundbyte.

@jpboileau5473

4 жыл бұрын

Spoken like a true "GRITS" :)

@Syncop8rNZ

4 жыл бұрын

1:54

@angi46131

4 жыл бұрын

That needs to be on t-shirts, coffee mugs, posters, pillows, dish towels, etc. Words to live by!

@333AppalachiaEnergetics

3 жыл бұрын

Going to start off my nursing staff meetings with Dixie’s phrase! 😂🌻💛

They are both walking recreation trails. The experience and aesthetic are different, but that is all about taste and preference. If trails were the same, then why walk more than one?

Thanks, Dixie. Why do we so often feel threatened and then angry when some people prefer activities or events that we don't? I like what I like and I don't need other people to like it as much as I do. I'm happy that they have things they like.

Thank you for making the videos Dixie!

Love this video and the comparison of different trail cultures. Thank you Dixie!

Great video. Thanks Dixie 😊👍🏼

I loved all the extra video of the Camino. Cant wait to hike it. THANKS!

I’m so grateful for your experience and insights, Dixie. Happy new year. 🌳

Happy New Year Dixie! Thanks for all of your positive contributions to the hiking community.

Happy New Year, Dixie! Love your videos!

Love the thought put into your content. A new decade to hike and explore Dixie!

Awesome Dixie, love your work..

Excellent video! This is exactly what I needed. Thank you for the comparison.

Love this video and the comparison of different trail cultures. Thanks for sharing. Keep it up and stay safe.

What a great comparison, thanks!

Excellent comparative review. Happy New Year Jessica. Best wishes for you and your family in the new year!

Thanks Dixie. Wishing you all a Happy and Healthy New Year. Good Luck, Rick

Another awesome video Dixie! We are thru hiking the AT starting on March 16. Super interesting to see the comparisons!!

Happy New Year to all! Thank you, Dixie for another wonderful year of good evening TV time. Love to Miss Fancy- Dancy too!

Thanks for sharing your experiences with us I enjoyed watching and I am going to have to visit the Appalachian trail some day

Nice job of giving the pluses and minuses of both trails. Your excellent comparison left me wanting to do both for the varied experience of each.

Thanks for sharing!!

So interesting to me as I walked the Camino just a few weeks before you last year and plan to thru hike the AT this year. Though I have section hiked the AT its very interesting to get your perspective.

Los dos caminos suenan espectacular! Thank you for the valuable information, planning this years trip to the A.T.

I enjoyed your whole series. The lack of civility in some people is sad, but not universal. I believe this video provided great reasons for any hiker to consider cultural experiences outside of the woods.

@hikerJohn

4 жыл бұрын

It's all the drinking that causes it LOL. I bet it's not as bad is it seems on the surface. I often act like that when it comes to cruise ships. No harm intended but I definitely will never do a cruise ship adventure if you can call that an adventure. ;o)

I’d absolutely love the interaction of different cultures of the Camino, the sharing of bathrooms not so much. I hope the two of you do more videos together.

Also hope this channel really blows up and you start making some serious dinero. Good luck.

Great contrast discussion! Blessings

“ putting yourself in situations where it’s not your norm helps you grow” what a profound statement Dixie!!! While I find the Camino interesting, I don’t think it’s something that I would enjoy. Hmm...maybe I’m the exact person that needs to do it??? Something I never thought about it till now. :) Thanks for a great video and I’ll keep the Camino in mind. 🙏

Another great, informative video. I followed your Camino de Santiago trip, along with you other adventures AT, PCT and CDT. From this video it sounds like I'm also more the AT type however... I'm 72 years now so I think if I do, I'll research section hiking. I did a few miles (25) of the Southern terminus when I was just 62 years back in 2009, on a 2 day solo trip while the wife enjoyed a nice hotel and touring small towns in Georgia. Happy New Year Jessica, have a great one...

Love seeing you & Montana together.

I've always set my mind to through hiking the Appalachian trail or the Long Trail because they are the trails I grew up with. I'd want to complete my own backyard before doing something else. Great video!

Dixie, I don't know if you will see this but I want to say thank you for your posts. I just found your channel about a month ago. I've been getting ready for a time in my life where I can begin taking some of the trips I've been wanting to take (I've been busy raising kids!). Thru-hikes in the U.S. and walking the Camino are both on my list. Of all the channels/KZreadrs I use as resources you give some of the best and most usable advice for me as a novice to backpacking. My son and I have been watching your Camino hike series recently. Seeing y'all's adventure makes us anticipate our trip even more. Thanks again for all the great information on equipment, costs, general advice, etc.

Happy New Year. Another great video. You are comparing extremes of long distance walking. There are numerous other trails in Europe (especially France) that allow wilderness type walking with accommodation in a hotel, B&B, hostel- gite every night. As 70+ year olds we find this a great way to spend 4 to 6 weeks in Europe each year. Often our walks have been on feeder route to the Camino Frances. You see and experience the detail of another culture and we have had many wonderful experiences.

It is about walking through this world, in all it’s variety. I love the full spectrum of experience that this channel is taking on. I am a wilderness hiker and the Camino’s are not on my list but I have a love of walking and adventure, I will keep this channel close to my heart.,

Dixie, Great job comparing, contrasting and respecting both sides. Please run for president.

You have also nature in Spain if you want. Check out the GR11, which is all mountain, around 800km and you would need 2 or 3 months.

@ondro3584

4 жыл бұрын

Javier S there is also the Balkan true-hike in Europe, pretty new, and goes thru 7 countries :)

@flamenco1961

3 жыл бұрын

2 years and 3 months if you're willing to learn some spanish :-)

Great video ! Lets just enjoy !

Happy New year 🎉

I’d love to do both someday ,God willing-thanks for the info.

“People brush their teeth differently...Gargling and chokin, it’s just very interesting.” Lol I love you Dixie!

I hope you have a good trip. Thank you for the good video.

Happy New Year Dixie

Glad you pointed out the cows, I started wondering what was behind you.

I love Vermont. So, if and when the day should come. I'll have to do the Long Trail first.😎HAPPY NEW YEAR!

solid info

Wonderful. Thank you.

Dixie! Happy New Year!

Happy New Year Dixie!!!

Happy New Year! It is so much fun to be able to enjoy both kinds of adventures. On the JMT - in the summer, I did meet lots of people from other countries, as the Sierra Nevada are a big attraction for people around the world. I am sure that your sister will be more adventurous in the future, now that you have introduced her to travel and hiking. She might always prefer a hut to hut -- but maybe you can get her to go on some hiking tours of the Alps, or the shorter treks in New Zealand where you stay in huts as well. Happy Trails.

@Henning_Rech

4 жыл бұрын

Hi Linda - did we meet? - I was hiking NoBo in August, arriving at HI the 23rd. Coming from Germany.

@lindaselover2536

4 жыл бұрын

@@Henning_Rech I did the JMT TM to Onion Valley in Sept/Oct 2016 and in Sept 2017 OV to Whitney and Whitney Portal. , so probably not. I did not go hiking in 2018 and 2019 due to continued knee pain. (old joints).

Dixie, I just found this video after watching your through hikes. I think it's fantastic you got to share the Camino with your sister. Also, on this comparison, you nailed it in terms of the nature or culture, but there's other road less traveled Camino routes that while are not wilderness experience like the PCT that I have hiked parts of, but routes that get very few folks hiking them. I'm looking at hiking the Camino de Levante next year and figure it will be largely a solo hike through the middle of Spain, where villages are far fewer and pilgrims even more so. You mentioned you might be up for hiking Camino del Norte sometime. Maybe give a look at the Camino de Levante too.

Awesome video. Liked the part where you showed the differences in wildlife and show a bear for the AT and a cat for the Camino. Keep up the good work!!

15:10 Is that a ghost cow? btw addicted to each episode.

@mattiasnilsson613

4 жыл бұрын

Exactly what i wanted to know :)

@juliem6401

3 жыл бұрын

Pretty sure it is lol

I liked the horse comparison!

Happy New Year Dixie.

great comparisons! FYI, I completed the Camino Frances this summer and I met several groups of people who were camping every night (or most nights). Sometimes in designated places, sometimes in places that are just known to be camper-friendly, and sometimes just in remote places where they were unlikely to be found or have problems. They said they never ran into any issues, so that is an option for those who want a more outdoorsy experience on the Camino Frances! As another commenter mentioned, I think other Camino routes lend themselves much better to camping if that’s a priority for someone considering a pilgrimage.

This is a really helpful video as I'm and deciding between the two for my gap year

@antheablackmore5838

4 жыл бұрын

Really Random my son has just done this Camino walk and absolutely adored it !!! He is doing the PCT in May but intends to go back to do more Caminos

@queeny5613

4 жыл бұрын

@@antheablackmore5838 thanks. I'm thinking now to do the Camino first simply because of the surroundings and the infrastructure as it will be my first solo backpacking trip

@catesc9367

3 жыл бұрын

Wow, im thinking the exact same for my gap year! Did you already hiked one?

@queeny5613

3 жыл бұрын

@@catesc9367 no I havnt yet but I've done a lot of day hiking and kinda section hiking in thr lake district in the uk where I'm from

@catesc9367

3 жыл бұрын

@@queeny5613 oh cool! Sounds beautiful

My wife and I lived in Vigo Spain for a couple of years. Vigo is about 1.5 hours South of Santiago by car. Santiago is one of my favorite cities in Spain. My wife and I plan to do the pilgrimage in the next couple of years. I will always love Spain.

I walked a stage of the GR10 and from St. Jean to Pamplona on the Camino last year. They both have their charms. I am going back to Spain this year to finish it.

Hi dixie, I stopped watching tv and crap Hollywood movies 2 years ago. Been watching your hikes video blogs all over xmas. People like you are f+/=ing amazing. Love your channel and human spirit.......uk fan.

Wonderful video and perspective. Too, I see the through-hikes as being pilgrimages...certainly seems so by evidence of the videos (both yours and ones that others have done).

Great comparison Dixie! I will never understand why people are so quick to job and stick their nose up in the air at others for doing something they enjoy. Why can’t you just let people live their lives, as long as it isn’t hurting or harming others lives/environment, and do what they enjoy too?! Great stuff!

I thru-hiked the AT in 2015 and the Camino Frances in 2017. Loved them both. I'm Catholic, so the Camino was a pilgrimage for me, but several in my "Camino family" were not. I still keep in touch with them on WhatsApp. Both hold a special place in my heart for different reasons.

Good overview of the differences between thru-hiking the American trails and walking the Camino Frances. By the way, there are more caminos that are less crowded, where you sometimes have a whole albergue for yourself and with more nature experience. There are also more long distance trails in Europe that are a bit in between the AT and the Camino Frances, for instance the GR10 through the French Pyrenees, the GR5 and GTA in the French and Italian Alps, and the Pennine Way in England.

Smart- logical- wise- good sense of humor-easy going. Very easy to watch all your vids. Wife really wanted to see Camino because she is 100% Portuguese, and hard core Catholic. Plus we have retired friends that have walked the same Camino in its entirety and loved it enough to d it again from another trail. No dynamite movie making though. lol Wife and I looking forward to NZ vids in 2020.

I thought these were some very good points Dixie! I have found that most people do not like anything that is different than what they like. I guess its like you, and many other hikers have said "hike your own hike--and I further say let others hike their hike. Almost all of the hikers I have followed on you tube plan on 5 to 10 days between resupply, about 90% of my hikes resupply is after 2---30 days. Which is right, BOTH, its what you are used to and comfortable with. My hikes have gradually gotten shorter over the years, will get shorter yet, as I am now approaching 73 years. I love what you are doing, followed all of your triple crown hikes as well as the Comino, and will follow you in New Zealand. Take care and please stay safe, I still need my DIXIE fix.

This made me want to go back and watch all your AT videos 😂 edit: for the third time, I mean. Lol

@russianbotfarm3036

4 жыл бұрын

For me it’s the PCT - love the calendar-grade scenery.

Nice compare and contrast Dixie

Thanks again. A good recap for this vicarious hiker. The religious roots of hiking El Camino is not lost on me. I love nature, it’s just that I love my air conditioning in Florida. What mountainous (or hilly) trek is next? Or maybe take a break and re-evaluate your future. 🏔🗿🛶🧗‍♀️

Your mention of noisy hostelers on the Camino, starting around the 7:00 mark, reminds me of an experience at a hostel in Barcelona (obviously not on the Camino, but ironic that it was still in Spain!). There were probably around 10 bunk beds in my room, and people came in at a variety of times, and woke up at a variety of times as well. Many who came in late would wake up for the free hostel breakfast, only to then go back to sleep for a few more hours. In my room, there was this one who who packed his clothing in these.... shrink-wrapped plastic bag type things (I don’t know how quite to explain it), which made SO. MUCH. NOISE. Also, he was in the top bed of his bunk, and was standing on the ladder while doing all of this on his bed, causing the bunk bed to shimmy and shake some, which only added to the noise. I was trying to sleep some more, as were 2 or 3 others. While I get that I booked a shared room, I had reached my breaking point with this guy. Climbing out of bed (not even bothering to put on my pants, so in my undies), I walked up to him and said, “Dude! Are you blind?! Some of us are still trying to sleep in here! Take your shit out to the common room where you can make all of your noise without needlessly being rude to us!” He looked at me with the fear of God in his eyes, as I stood there in my undies and a t-shirt with disheveled morning hair, not even asking him, but telling him what to do. He looked around the room, and saw the handful of us in bed, annoyingly giving him the stink eye, apologized, and promptly moved his noisy mess out to the common area.

Both. I'm both. I want the camping and solitude and I love history. The day will come when I get out there too. I'm starting here in the states though.

When we were in Spain on a cruise I found myself noting things that were older than America vs younger than America. It’s the only way my head could process the context of historical sites. Now I need to convince someone to do the Camino with me. Maybe for my 40th birthday.

Sometime in the future try the Via Alpina in central Europe. You can walk through up to 8 countries and god only knows how many languages but can always get by in English. Or, do the High Pyrenees trail and trek from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean along the Spanish/French border. I'd like to hear how they compare to the CDT.

@youreworthyourweightinavoc7189

4 жыл бұрын

yeah 100% if I had more cash I'd be doing this! Might have to do it stealth camping one day. Also gonna look at going to Argentina one day soon as their currency is just tanking and tanking, could make a cheap trip to see the Torres del Paine etc.

It's not about the destination. It's about the journey. See you on the trail Miss Dixie. Addicted To Freedom. Happy New Year

If you ever find yourself wanting to do a more breathtaking hike, filled with the best of the natural beauty Europe has to offer, I recommend the Tour du Mont Blanc or the AV1. Both offer mind boggling vistas, but with the bonus of lovely European towns and villages dotted along the way! The best of both worlds, but with an awful lot of up and down too!

My last name comes from "Castellon De La Plana." A city in Spain. I was born in Mexico. Am now a US citizen, US Navy vet and all. As far as history. I've an acquaintance that is a professor of Mayan archaeology at UCSB. He recommended a book, "7 myths of the Spanish conquest." History has a huge human element. There is history in nature. One of the things that I love about the USA. National parks and the respect for them as in the PCT and others. I don't believe that you have to look at the written history to experience that history. You have to live it. The trails that are on this earth especially those that are not so governed allow you to become more of that history. After all, these lands were here much before we invaded them. So hike on, whether pilgrimage or wilderness and have respect for each other.

Happy New Year Dixie & Hiker Trash! Thanks for the great overview as usual, just wondering, has anyone helped out the Appalacian Trail Conservancy?

Not sure why I watched this because I will never hike either one. My feeling is I just love to hear Dixie talk. Just a hint of Alabama, just enough to make an Oregonian like me say....hmm...is I pronounced eye or ahy....like wahne or wine? She is a gifted travel expert. Good job, Jessica.

Happy new year Dixie, I am still holding out hope you may have plans to canoe / kayak the Mississippi, And video document it, it would be great to see.

@SoulDevoured

4 жыл бұрын

That's one thing you don't want to do like the way she did the AT. You definitely need practice before going on a canoe/kayak trip like that. She might be able to hop on with a guided group though. More experienced folk to look after her. And I'm not saying that just cuz she's a woman. It's a bad idea for *anyone* to go out on water like that without having enough experience to know how their craft works and how the waters will treat it.

@vxnova1

4 жыл бұрын

SoulDevoured thanks for the reverse psychology I have heard the best way to get a motivated person to do something is tell them it can’t be done, Also I have seen a few videos where people have done it with no experience and the first few weeks are on pretty small rivers giving plenty of time to get the feel for the boat and get used to it gradually, Please note this is Dixie she can do whatever she can put her mind to, make it look good, and make other people happy along the way while she is doing it, Dixie I’m hoping you give it some consideration for your next adventure,

1:15 It is the way it is because many people are mean and petty and addicted to chaos and drama and will always find something to attack and complain about.

@brianhildebrand1816

4 жыл бұрын

Brian Cuprisin I think it may also be that we are being “trained” to be polar. It may just be my perception, but I perceive an increased level of polarization as we are becoming increasingly aware of others’ perspectives via social media. I want to say this is a bad thing, but perhaps it’s a neutral thing we just have to learn to deal with.

I did the AT in 1990 and even though there are areas that are remote, I'd not really call it wilderness, either.

I walked the Camino and as someone who did not do a lot of hiking, I think it was best. Was nice to walk all day but being able to stop in villages to eat and sleep. I would like to walk the Northern route next... Not ready for an AT quite yet lol

One is AT and the other is Camino. We use different methods to get from point A to point B. We see different stuff and experience different things. If you have issues, do start walking. Leave the keyboard at home. ;)

I prefer wild spaces and places. Jess please do the west coast trail on Vancouver island

Another good episode. It is amazing when sit a dinner table with many different people from all around the world. I found they are alike loving and caring, passionate and wanting to live life without conflict. Only if the world governments could be so intelligent. Thanks Dixie

@markmoore5380

4 жыл бұрын

You are so correct. Some would convince us we are enemies, however once we sit at the same table breaking bread we learn that we all want the same thing to live our lives and live in peace.

@Bohonk212

4 жыл бұрын

Some of my best AT memories, seeing hikers vastly 'different' from myself on the trail in casual passing and later having wonderful conversations with them all sheltering from the rain in a lean-to.

@radagastbrown9001

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed. Just remember better politicians start with better, more informed voters. In a democracy it is up to the people (*us).

Hi Dixie actually it's tolerated to camp on the camino de santiago in the french and spanish part. However staying a bunch of days is completly forbidden. The unsaid rule is you are free to camp discretly from 6 pm to 8 am basically.

I followed your Camino trip and although I would choose a thousand other trails over the Camino I don't see any sense in giving others a hard time over choosing it.

@Marbella125

4 жыл бұрын

chiicks

Most people in Europe have 6 weeks of paid vacation a year. You can take your holidays and in that time easily complete the 500 miles of the French Way, for instance, sleeping in hostels and dining in restaurants every night. Try that in the AT.

"They don't compare at all" was exactly what I was thinking.

Thank you Dixe for all of your video`s I realy enjoy them I know it`s been some times since you hiked AT but what are your thoughts a bought hiking all of the Eastern Continental Trail from Key West Florida to Quebec Canada. Connecting the Overseas Heritage Trail, Florida Trail, Alabama Hiking Trail, Coosa Trail, Pinhoti Trail, Benton Mackaye Trail, Appalachian Trail, New Brunswick Trail, and International Appalachian Trail.

Having hiked both, i agree with this 98%. i think the Camino costs are a bit low. If you stay in a bunk room every night then 35 euro might be about right, i spent about 50euro per day in 2018 on the french Camino and about 70 euro per day in 2019 on the Portuguese route. i stayed in albergue bunk rooms about half of the time.

i look at it in the historical view point not religious. and it should not matter what trail it is. it is just getting outside and walking. enjoying the outdoors and meeting people. Happy New Year too you and your family.

Well for those who think that the camino does not go thru any wilderness, they should try coming from another further country in Europe to Santiago. I myself left from Belgium and decided to take all routes that include as much forests as possible. By doing so I added over 800 km to my pilgrimage. So believe me, there are routes out there which are really more nature based with a lot of nature walking and as little as possible roadwalks. When doing this I do take my tent with me and only sleep in albergues in the biggest city's or at the monasteries and abbeys I would like to visit and see. So I think it is what you make of your hike yourself is what kind of hike you will have. On the trails in America everyone is going thru the wilderness. Try doing that when you know most of the other hikers that are walking the trail are having daily showers and good nights sleep just a couple of kilometers away. Like on the camino. For me, it is all about that mindset of making yourself get stronger by doing this. It is what you make of it yourself.

Brushing teeth noises 😂 I love it. Thanks for your words. I don't get these contemptuous remarks on different kinds of hikes. Every hike has it's own history and justification. And every person on a hike has an own history and reason why doing the hike. Why spit on that? Europe is extremly densely populated, if you would do a hike like the AT or PCT you would cross a lot of different countries and cultures, but walking for 5 months mostly through nature isn't really possible here. It's just two different kinds of hikes. But yes, I like hikes in nature better, so most of the hikes are shorter, sometimes just several days to two weeks, but they provide a lot of great views, lovely cultures and a lot of history. Happy new year, Dixie.

It's possible to start the Camino from any cathedral in Europe, so that could be a very long way. Obviously, most people do a shortened version. It's also "permissible" to cycle!

Interesting! I’ve done the camino seven times (different ones) and I’d love to do the AT so I’m surprised you found any camino people who turned their nose up at the AT? Spoken to others who felt the same but for sure the AT is a much more serious hike and a lot less comfortable!

Another interesting historical hike is Hadrian's Wall in Britain.

@vickiehart3707

4 жыл бұрын

Steve Brown I did that one first. Planning a Camino. The part of Camino looking at doesn’t look as rugged as th Hadrian. I was surprised how many British didn’t even know about the Hadrian’s

Dixie for President! ⭐️

Dixie, did you hear about the AT trail collapse at Harpers Ferry after a train derailed?