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Long Ridge San Mateo County High Point

Hiking Long Ridge – San Mateo County’s High Point

It’s been a while! My last adventure updates were in March 2022 from my New Mexico trip. Since then I’ve kept to mostly local adventures. They’ve been fun but not necessarily worth posting about. Good things in family and career have kept me from peakbagging lately. This unique opportunity to “summit” the high point of...

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Tank Hill Park

Bay Area Nifty Ninety Peaks

I cover a lot of obscure mountains and hikes on this website. Often I hike a mountain because it lands on an equally unknown peakbagging list, such as the Bay Area Nifty Ninety Peaks. Peakbagging is a relentless though highly questionable pursuit of tagging summits in a systematic way. Though heavily ridiculed by “serious climbers”,...

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