"caminar" o "caminando"?
Disfruté caminar (o caminando) por los caminos pequenos.
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"Disfruté caminar por los caminos pequeños".
Both would be OK, although the nuance is minimal.
For the second one, which everybody makes it seem wrong:
Disfruté mi caminata...
Disfruté (mientras estaba) caminando ....
ac and everyone else, just to clear things up. While many factors are at play consider the following ones...
Definitions of "I am a native" here in the US.... which serves to confuse a bit the issue.
My, chileno, specific case.
I was born in Chile, I came to the US when I was 25 y.o.
Some people are born in another country and are taken by the parents at various stages through childhood up until being a teen.
Some people are born in the US from parents that are Hispanics, whether their first language was or not Spanish, it seems not to be of any relevance?!
And then we have those that are born like second generation in the US and still talk some kind of Spanish, in some cases very well considering the case, but others....
Lastly, you have the regional/each country different ways to say the same thing.
With all that to take into consideration, I would advise you to ask more about the degree of "nativeness", which in any event should be taken against or in favor of...
Education is another factor. Ultimately, that's why I propose to talk to yourself, as in reading out loud and recording yourself, so that you can try to "imitate" the people you hear in movies etc...
When you translate a novel from the target language to your native language, then you understand what it is written in the target language. It is normal, but it seems that nobody understands that in a conscientious way. When you transcribe from the target language to the target language (copy), you are making sure you "adopt" a good form of writing. At the end of that novel, most likely you will be in a position of writing something out of your behind completely correct, without knowing why it's correct.
;-D
Re-Edit:
Disfruté caminar.... y Disfruté caminando is pretty much the same. Both ways are OK.
Please listen to Chileno, who is a native speaker.
It is perfectly appropriate to use the gerundio here, serving as an adverb modifying disfrutar.
In the dictionary at this site examples include:
http://www.spanishdict.com/translate/disfrutar
disfruto escuchándoles reír -> I enjoy hearing them laugh
disfruté muchísimo hablando con ella I very much enjoyed talking to her
If you choose to put in "de", ie "disfrutar de algo" then you have to use caminar, as it now serves as a noun, and you cannot use the gerundio as a noun. But disfrutar is a verb that allows a gerundio to serve as an adverb directly modifying it. Despite what many people seem to think.
More from the definitive source (RAE):
http://lema.rae.es/dpd/?key=disfrutar
disfrutar. 1. Cuando significa ‘sentir placer a causa de algo’ es normalmente intransitivo y se construye con un gerundio, o con un complemento introducido por de o con, que expresa la causa del disfrute: «Disfruta mirando ese mar enfurecido» (Vázquez Narboni [Esp. 1976]); «Farnesio y él irían a acompañarlo para [...] disfrutar del clima sano» (UPietri Visita [Ven. 1990]); «Disfrutó con la comprobación de saberse protegido» (Andrade Dios [Arg. 1993]). También es válida la construcción transitiva, con el sentido de ‘obtener placer [de algo]’: «Disfruté la compañía» (Boullosa Duerme [Méx. 1994]).
- Con el significado de ‘tener algo bueno o placentero’ puede ser transitivo: «Desde que concibió la idea de construirlos, ya no disfrutaba ningún momento de sosiego» (Aguilera Pelota [Ec. 1988]); o, más comúnmente, intransitivo, con un complemento introducido por de: «Yo disfrutaba de todos los lujos» (Hernández Secreter [Esp. 1995]).
Disfruté (Disfrutaba- if it was a reoccuring event that you used to do in the past.) caminar por los caminos pequeños.
"Disfruté de caminar por los caminos pequeños".
Disfrutar needs the preposition 'de' if it's followed by a verb. 
Caminar
