Loading ...Community moon walk this Wednesday on the Hike and Bike Trail
Posted By admin on June 13, 2011
The monthly full moon walk for June will be held on the Wimberley-Hays County Hike & Bike Trail, this Wednesday, June 15, at 7:30 p.m. Local residents and their pets on leashes are welcome at the walk. The May full moon is the Full Flower moon. Participants in the two-mile walk meet in the parking lot of the former First Baptist Church near the entrance to Blue Hole.
Sponsored by the Wimberley Mayor’s Fitness Council, the moon walk is a non-competitive, un-timed community fitness walk, and it is part of the MFC’s program to encourage local residents to make healthier choices to improve their overall physical well-being and to make Wimberley the fittest little town in Texas.
The origins of the idea to tie a community fitness event in Wimberley to the cycle of the moon are known only to members of the fitness council, but full moon names date back to Native American tribes in what is now the northern and eastern United States. The tribes kept track of the seasons by giving distinctive names to each recurring full moon. Their names were applied to the entire month in which each occurred. There was some variation in the moon names, but in general, the same ones were used throughout the Algonquin tribes from New England to Lake Superior. European settlers followed that custom and created some of their own names.
June’s full moon is the Strawberry Moon. This name was universal to every Algonquin tribe. However, in Europe they called it the Rose moon. Also because the relatively short season for harvesting strawberries comes each year during the month of June . . . so the full moon that occurs during that month was christened for the strawberry!
Everyone is invited. Bring flashlights and wear light colored clothing. Pets on leashes also are invited to participate.
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