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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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Sparkling San Francisco hike for Thanksgiving week

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009 · 2 comments

Try as we might, it always seems that we eat and drink more than we intend during the holidays. What better way to work off a few calories than to...
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Walking Spain's Camino de Santiago, Part 4

Monday, November 23rd, 2009 · 2 comments

One of the things that one quickly learns when considering walking Spain's Camino de Santiago (AKA Saint James Way) is that millions have hiked...
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Walk Spain's Camino de Santiago, part 3

Thursday, November 12th, 2009 · 1 comment

Most people who want to walk the entire pilgrimage route of the Camino de Santiago across Spain -- a 500-mile trek -- start either on the French side...
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Walking Spain's Camino de Santiago, Part 2

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

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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

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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

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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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