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The Walk That Ate San Francisco

The Better.Cheaper.Slower map to a great way to spend the day in San Francisco. Eat a bunch of delicious, healthy foods while you burn way more calories than you consume on a spectacularly scenic walking tour of San Francisco.
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To the Summit of Sargent Mountain. C’mon. My dog did it.

It goes up - quickly and steeply - to 1379 feet. The elevation's not much compared with mountains out West - but the hiking can be as challenging. Check out these views. I bet you want to go here. Or someplace a lot like here. Take a nice long walk.
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Strange Skylines: Three Magical Miles

Take a long walk this weekend. With or without the magic. I was thinking about the totally weird and beautiful skyline of New Mexico's Tent Rocks while I walked down the suddenly magical Park Avenue on one of three summer Saturdays when it's a 2.8-mile pedestrian mall. If you were a Cochiti Indian who'd never left home, this would be one strange hike.
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Big Sur: Your private beach. For free.

Yours for the walking. One hour. Two and a half miles along a bluff overlooking the Pacific; down a winding unmarked trail to a really beautiful beach. Walk to the end. Get brave for a few seconds, time the waves, wade around the rocks. All yours.
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Walk To The Very Edge:The Nu’alolo Trail

A beautiful, free 7.5-mile walk. Three hours outdoors; three hours outside the routines of your mostly indoor life. Let this be an example of three or four hours well spent and a thousand or so calories burned.
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Stretch of the Week: Calf Muscles

You've loosened up your lower back; you've given your hamstrings and quadriceps a good long stretch. Now stretch your calf muscles, Achilles tendons and the muscle fascia that surround your heels.
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