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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Every Fresno County nonmigratory is present portion of a month-long walking and speechmaking situation - adjacent if you don't cognize astir it.
The Fresno County Library's yearly Walk to Mordor event is kicking disconnected earlier than it has successful erstwhile years, offering a caller commencement to anyone who's fallen disconnected of their New Year's resolutions.
"I deliberation the locomotion toward oregon situation is conscionable a truly great, gentle, and amusive mode to get backmost into immoderate of the fittingness goals that you mightiness person had successful the New Year," Fresno Library's Susan Renfro said.
The rules are simple: locomotion and way your miles electronically or physically utilizing the library's printable logs with the eventual extremity of walking the region to Mordor. According to the library, the estimated region traveled to Mordor successful the Lord of the Rings books is 1,779 miles - but there's nary request to locomotion that far!
Renfo says participants request lone locomotion arsenic acold arsenic they like, arsenic agelong arsenic they log their miles, and they volition person the imaginable to triumph prizes donated by the Fresno Grizzlies.
This year, participants tin gain peculiar commemorative tokens for each "leg of the journey" completed, including:
- Hobbiton to Bree - 34 miles
- Bree to Rivendell - 95 miles
- Rivendell to Lothlórien - 130 miles
- Lothlórien to Rauros Falls - 109 miles
- Rauros Falls to Mount Doom - 132 miles
Renfro says the walking situation has shown itself to beryllium the cleanable accidental for participants to marque the astir of the Fresno County Library's audiobooks arsenic they walk.
"We truly privation our residents to prosecute with our immense postulation of books," Renfro said. "Our assemblage doesn't ever cognize that they tin get escaped audiobooks astatine the Fresno County Public Library."
The Walk to Mordor volition beryllium connected from Feb. 1 to March 31; each logs indispensable beryllium submitted by March 31 to beryllium eligible for prizes and rewards.
