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3 Great ‘Workout Hikes’ in the Bay Area to Try (When You Can’t Face the Gym) | KQED
Want to get some heavy exercise without a treadmill? Pick one of these arduous — but rewarding — local mountain trails.

Reflections from the Alpine Trail | Offprint
The unfulfilled promise of Bay Area slow and leisurely cycling.

Home | Houston Black Hikers
Step outside and into your next adventure! Every month, we host hikes, wellness gatherings, and community experiences designed to heal, connect, and inspire.

The East Bay out : a personal guide to the East Bay regional parks : Margolin, Malcolm
Search the history of more than 1 trillion web pages.

Hiking in Houston | 12 Amazing Trails | Blog
Explore the breathtaking trails & natural beauty of Houston. Plan your outdoor journey now and embark on an unforgettable adventure!
25 Things I wish I knew before moving to San Francisco
I moved to San Francisco 9 months ago from the East Coast bastion of Boston. Despite having experience living in a major US city, I found quite a few surprises coming here. Some have been great, w…

Walk and Talk — The Portuguese Coastal Camino
We were lucky. Maybe the luckiest group walking the Portuguese coastal Camino. (Certainly the second luckiest.) All the things conspired in our favor: The weather, the food, the quality of the path (lots of great seaside boardwalk walking for miles and miles), the kind old café owners who suffered our group’s order-chaos with inspired equanimity.

Bay Area Hip-Hop | That’s My Word | KQED
A Year-Long Exploration of Bay Area Hip-Hop History

Manton Reece - Yet more views from the train, earlier t...
Yet more views from the train, earlier today going across a bay on the Hudson River. 🚂

East Don Trail
I decided to check out the East Don Trail today. Rob Zaichkowski has already written about it extensively, so I wanted to check it out for myself. Starting at the entrance to the new trail which is…

National Geographic named this 25-mile California trail among its ‘100 hikes of a lifetime’ — it follows the longest stretch of undeveloped coastline in the continental U.S.
If the Lost Coast Trail isn't on your bucket list, its recent inclusion in National Geographic's '100 Hikes of a Lifetime' will convince you.

Your Guide to Glamping in Texas
The very best places to camp in style near Houston.

America's best poke is in a tiny Calif. mountain town, not Hawaii
A sunny day with the giant lakeside shark.
