In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.
— Douglas Adams
I thought about declaring the San Francisco Bay Area the hiking capital of the world, but it occurred to me somebody might take such a claim seriously enough to expend considerable effort crafting an eloquent counter-claim as to why their neck of the woods is the real hiking capital.
I don’t want that on my conscience.
The brains behind the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy obliges a more universal declaration, I figure, and what the heck, it might look good on a T-shirt or something.
Excuse me, but I’m going hiking now.
I’ll spare the rest of you the effort of typing this in: Tom, whatever.
I declare that the Bay Area IS the Numero Uno hiking capital of any comparably sized urban area on earth.
I MIGHT be able to go along with “comparably sized urban area”.
Don’t make me slap down you “California is the centre of the hiking universe” flacks again by expanding that definition, though.
Queenstown, New Zealand would definitely be the outdoor adventure capital of the world. Probably the hiking capital too.
PS
Love the flickr pix widget. Could be wider though.
man, you guys weren’t paying very close attention: the universal declaration was expressly designed to prevent such differences of opinion
The only possible capital of the hiking universe is your brain when you’re on the trail.