Walking is one of humankind’s most basic acts. Yet, beyond its everyday utility and purposefulness, walking often carries other pursuits along with it. People walk to relax, to exercise or to complete a pilgrimage. There are many different types of ‘walkers’, from the long-distance hikes of the Maasai warriors on the East African planes to the leisurely urban strolls of the Parisian flâneurs. Some walk to think or to stimulate the faculty of human imagination. Many of history’s great philosophers and writers recognized the benefits of ambulation. Nishida Kitaro, the illustrious Japanese philosopher, practiced meditation on a daily walk, and his route is now the heavily visited Philosopher’s Path in Kyoto. Immanuel Kant was famous for the extreme regularity of his walks in late eighteenth-century Königsberg. In this participatory outdoor walk, participants will experience firsthand the advantages and limitations of walking as a method in anthropological research and teaching. Many anthropologists have engaged in walking during their fieldwork—walking with informants, walking from one ethnographic ‘activity’ to the other, or walking as a way to relax—but so far there has been little reflection on what the practice of walking does to our (anthropological) understanding of the subjects we study, whether these are mobile or not. We will also share personal experiences with walking as a tool for teaching and mentoring, and the interesting possibilities this offers in terms of linking thoughts with feelings, legacies with ephemera, materiality with imaginaries, and mobility with immobility.