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Susan Alcorn (backpack45@yahoo.com) loves hiking in the S. F. Bay Area. She's the award-winning author of two travel essay books, has hiked extensively in the U.S., Europe, and South America, and climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro. Visit Susan on the web at www.backpack45.com.

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Walking Spain's Camino de Santiago, Part 2

Monday, November 9th, 2009

In the previous article about my 2001 walk on the Camino de Santiago, a 500-mile pilgrimage trail across Spain, I...
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Walking Spain's Camino de Santiago, part 1

Thursday, November 5th, 2009 · 1 comment

In 2001, my husband Ralph and I walked the Camino de Santiago, which is a 500-mile path across northern Spain. In this first installment, follow us as...
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Shelton Johnson on Buffalo soldiers and old wounds, part 2

Friday, October 30th, 2009 · 1 comment

When Shelton Johnson, author of the recently published Gloryland, commented that Oprah Winfrey taking a tour of our National Parks would help heal old...
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Canadian hiker dies after coyote attack

Thursday, October 29th, 2009 · 3 comments

This past Tuesday, Taylor Mitchell, a folk singer from Toronto was attacked by two coyotes while she was hiking in Cape Breton Highlands National Park...
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Shelton Johnson speaks eloquently of Buffalo soldiers, part 1

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Shelton Johnson's new book, Gloryland - a novel, has recently been published by Sierra Club Books. In Johnson's book, we are introduced to...
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Hike or boat and camp overnight at Point Pinole

East Bay Regional Park District is opening a new group camp, its first shoreline campground, at the 2,100-acre Point Pinole Regional Shoreline Park,...
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Hiking in your own backyard

If you are an independent traveler, as I am, one of the first things you probably do when you reach a new city is start exploring the area around your...
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How to enjoy hiking in the rain

Remember when you were a kid and you thought it was great fun when the first rains came and you got to splash in the puddles? Ever wonder why we lose...
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Hiking in Oakland's Montclair District

Because the Montclair District of Oakland sits in the hills above Hwy 13, it doesn't have many flat places to hike, it does however have one...
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Williamson and Bradley set new PCT speed record