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urban hiking

Walking Across the Country

June 25, 2010

This week, I stumbled across the very cool web site of a man named Matt, who has a very simple goal – to walk from Rockaway Beach, NY to Rockaway Beach, OR. He doesn’t have a cause, a sponsor, or a specific reason for doing it … and has appropriately named his site I’m Just [...]

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Climb Some Stairs This Weekend

June 10, 2010

For those who like their hiking a bit more urban … and involving more staircases, then you’ll be happy to know that the team behind the Big Parade is back again, and gearing up for a 2-day, 35 mile walk through Los Angeles, including 101 public staircases. The event kicks off Friday morning with an [...]

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Great Los Angeles Walk 2009

November 18, 2009

If you like your hiking mixed with a bit of urban exploration, civic pride, and the occasional rest stop at a cafe, then you might be interested to know that the Fourth Annual Great Los Angeles Walk is on-schedule to take place this Saturday, November 21st. The annual event takes hikers on a long-distance urban [...]

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The Big Parade – A Two-Day Hike in L.A.

July 7, 2009

When I first started Modern Hiker, the primary hiking/blogging joke I heard (yes, there’s at least one) was that I should devote a section of the site for walks around the urban areas of L.A. Hilarious, right? After a while, I actually came around to like the idea – there’s a lot of history buried [...]

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The Great LA Walk

November 19, 2008

If you want to do some hiking this Pre-Thanksgiving weekend, but maybe want to try something a little different than your usual wilderness tromp, you may want to consider tagging along on the 2008 Great L.A. Walk. In the third annual march across the city (or at least the west side of the city), a [...]

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Urban Hiking … Again

June 25, 2008

Last March, I dismissed an idea from some colleagues to do “urban hiking” — a trek through the streets of Los Angeles with my CamelBak, GPS, and camera, treated like a regular hike write-up. I thought it’d be boring and unfulfilling — and was worried someone would try to gank my GPS. Now, it seems [...]

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City Hikes

February 19, 2008

Rick from Best Hike was recently in San Antonio, Texas, and did himself a little urban hiking on the city’s famous River Walk. San Antonio by JarkkoS. Despite looking like just a fancier version of one of those fake lazy-river urban faux villages, the River Walk actually has a pretty interesting history. Around the same [...]

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