I’m thinking if you live in Orinda you pretty much have to belong to a hiking club (it’s a village in the hills east of Berkeley), to catch up on who’s not talking to whom and such. But anyway: The…

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Meetup.com has scads of hiking groups, including quite a few in the Bay Area. These are the most promising ones I scouted out this morning: Related links Etiquette for group hikes Hiking clubs of note in the Bay Area Oakland…

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This sounds interesting: Marin Moonshiners Monthly Moonlight Hike. Experience the sunset and moonrise from beautiful Mt. Tam. This monthly 3 mile hike takes place during the full moon. Enjoy socializing and picnicing by the campfire. We’ll start hiking near Four…

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Do flash mobs even exist anymore? Anyway… I thought it’d be interesting to post a link to one of the local hikes listed on meetup.com. A group based in Mountain View called “Let’s hike and maybe take a break if…

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Today’s sites worth seeing: Tribe.net and meetup.com. I posted a note flogging our new Bay Area focus at Tribe.net’s Bay Area Hiking tribe and got a reply from a guy offering to lead anthropological hikes around the area. Of course…

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The SCMTA maintains trails at Big Basin and Castle Rock state parks, plus the Skyline-to-the-Sea trail. They also have hikes most Sundays — scroll down to the bottom of the page to find links to photos from their hikes; somebody…

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