Loading ...July’s community Moon Walk is Monday, July18
Posted By admin on July 10, 2011
The monthly full moon walk for July will take place at the Wimberley-Hays County Hike & Bike Trail, Monday, July, 18, at 8:00 p.m. Everyone is welcome, as are pets on leashes are welcome at the walk. The July full moon is the Full Buck Moon. Participants in the two-mile walk meet at the north end of the parking lot of the former First Baptist Church near the entrance to Blue Hole.
Wimberley’s monthly community full moon walk, an initiative of the Mayor’s Fitness Council, started in 2009 as a way to get people into the habit of making small changes in their lives by adding a little light exercise. It has turned into a social event attracting people and their pets to meet other Wimberleyites, have some fun and get a little exercise. This month’s walk will be the first time that the Fitness Council has used the new Hike & Bike Trail.
The moon walk is a non-competitive, un-timed community fitness walk, and it is part of the Mayor’s Fitness Council’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.
July is normally the month when the new antlers of buck deer push out of their foreheads in coatings of velvety fur. It also was often called the Full Thunder Moon because thunderstorms are most frequent during this time. Another name for this month’s moon was the Full Hay Moon.
Bob Flocke
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