<div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-size:12px;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing:0px">BBQ and Bon Voyage for this Year’s Hikers</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing:0px">If you’re a hiker and live near the San Francisco Bay Area, I’ll be hosting a Hiker BBQ and potluck on Saturday, 2-22-14, in Martinez CA to celebrate the start of another hiking season. As I live across the street from the John Muir National Historic Site, we’ll also be throwing in a hike of Mt. Wanda and Mt. Helen, where he took his daughters walking when they were young. From there we’ll hike to the Muir gravesite and then tour his home. The desk on which he penned the articles and books that changed the world remains in his “scribble den”, a sacred spot for hikers. Cross the grounds and you’re back at my place and we’ll BBQ and Partay into the evening. </span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing:0px">The following day, 2-23-14, we’ll be hiking up Mt. Diablo, 16 miles, 4,000 vertical roundtrip. If it’s a clear day you’ll see the “Mountains of Light”, the entire Sierra Nevada and the beginning of the Cascades, snow capped and poured out across the landscape in a ribbon of white, over 700 miles of mountains at a glance and one of the great views of America.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing:0px">Come to any or all of this, and meet some of those who will be hiking the PCT, CDT, JMT and the AT this year with you. If you’re interested, send me an email at <a href="mailto:Baidarker@gmail.com"><span style="letter-spacing:0px;color:rgb(24,0,177)">Baidarker@gmail.com</span></a> and I’ll shoot you the details.</span></p>
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