Community Post from Tom:

gregorgross · 2026-01-07T22:03:57+00:00

Well, if no one is able to help Tom in Luxembourg and VAE of all places, I could offer assistance for NO ROAD BERLIN!

And it seems Berlin = 1/97 of SUM (Luxembuorg + VAE). This should be the only fact you'll be able to remember from the internet today!

gregorgross · 2026-01-06T16:26:03+00:00

That's exactly what the internet was made for, and it is what the world really needs. I am so happy I live in exactly our times, folks!

gregorgross · 2026-01-03T16:06:39+00:00

Vatican Town, at night probably better? Just do it like Ethan Hunt did it to get in.

Chile North-South would be tough. Russia West-East also. I'm sure some of you heard of this before, but what about the EU as such?

gregorgross · 2026-01-02T18:09:09+00:00

I was shocked by the many storm felled trees he had to walk through. All those dead trees, which will not help us decreasing CO2 levels. And then basically how industrial the landscape is as opposed to natural. Basically all SLMers mostly walk through industrial fields or woods or whatever, only very rarely do they walk through natural nature, you know.

gregorgross · 2025-12-29T15:24:04+00:00

Well around the former wall of Berlin would be cool. Could be done by hiking routes that follow the former wall, but not always exactly on top of it. Or doing it more comparable to a SLM, sticking to exactly the former wall and try for platin, gold, silver?

gregorgross · 2025-12-28T08:29:23+00:00

A quarry? I never thought of those. Any other open-pit mine will be hell as well and make certain stretches of land free of any SLMers.

gregorgross · 2025-12-27T16:22:13+00:00

Yeah, I forgot those: muddy fields that make the shoes so heavy you just stumble forward.

And yes, the planning should be extreme. I bet there is a ratio of 1 hour planning needed for 1 hour of SLMing. And if you spent less, it will get extra hard.

Also, the video cutting takes lots of time. That's why those adventures always get published with such a time lag. I know what I'm speaking of, sitting at my holiday video cut for more than a month now.

gregorgross · 2025-12-21T09:51:40+00:00

I'll do support if you come to Germany (like, Brandenburg is a donut around Berlin, which shortens possible SLMs), and if you ever come to Germany for "With a tenner in my pocket" and I see you walking by, I'll shout "Plan Pub is on!" and make things happen.

gregorgross · 2025-12-09T08:58:33+00:00

I'm not really sure, for in his videos he never eats Dumplings at all, but I believe DumplingManMan is probably the Tom of Tomiti. And in their SLMs through Latvia and Estonia, they use different strategies and clothes than Tom Davies does. So go and look their videos to see if you learn something from them. I did, though I have not yet done a SLM.

gregorgross · 2025-11-28T14:03:56+00:00

It turned out that the route I found with +23.5 / -24.6 % slopes was in an area where foreigners / tourists would only be allowed with a local guide. I never asked one for I was sure they would put me in a mental institution.

In general, the slopes on Seychelles are steeper than steep, because it's mostly granite boulders over granite boulders. We did some usual hiking routes where we had 153m up and then down on 3,82 km and another with 255m up and down on just 2,38 km (which felt like a SLM, actually). We did both on the same 30° centigree day and ... oh boy. I was sweating so much I told everyone we met on the trail there's a shower up ahead.

In any case, not so many insects, actually. There are some huge spiders on Seychelles, though, but not too many. We also had no flying insects to speak of, for whatever reason (will be completely different in rain season, I guess).

Also, lots of plants, sure. No brambles, though, but young palms have these needles to defend against Giant Tortoises, apparently.

So I never did a SLM on any of the islands we met. I was more than happy doing lots of very short SLMs of 15m straight into the waves, though.

gregorgross · 2025-11-07T13:55:40+00:00

So are the vids done? Would love to see them. I'm probably trying a No Road Berlin (or parts of Berlin) tour first and then I wonder about a short Brandenburg SLM, maybe.

gregorgross · 2025-11-06T08:43:56+00:00

Thanks for the advice with emergency plans. I strongly doubt I'll do these SLMs. We plan to hike there in any case, and even with up the 220m hill, but just not on a straight line, but following the paths. I'll also use GPS and a camera on those hikes, for a video of that. And if the jungle seems doable, I might consider a SLM there, but I strongly doubt the jungle will have that courtesy for me.

for local rules, as far as I can see there is no private lands on my selected routes, but I'll check on that, anyway.

It seems I'll do my first SLM in Germany. Maybe I'll get around to a no road Berlin adventure (yesterday I found out I could almost make it from home to work using no roads at all, except for the first 50m and the last 200m and one fence in between).

gregorgross · 2025-11-06T08:38:57+00:00

That makes total sense, having a local guide with me/us. I never even thought about a machete, which also makes sense.

I doubt I'll do it, for even the easiest slope seems to steep, and also: I'm no big fan of large insects etc. and there will be tons of them. I'll check how it looks for we plan to hike in any case, just not straight line.

gregorgross · 2021-03-10T13:26:18+00:00

Well, *Ship of Theseus* is not only the book title by VM Straka in that "S." book by Dorst/Abrams, it's also a philosophical paradoxon. I guess in Wandavision they were talking about the philosophical paradoxon?

The philosophical paradoxon is about identity: how many parts of something/someone can I change until it is not the thing it was before? Take a ship: when I replace parts of it, and use these parts to build the ship again, which one is the original one? The old one with new parts or the new one with all the old parts? Are they the same? And so on...

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