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		<title>How to Make Huckleberry Muffins</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160;&#160;&#160; &#160;&#160;&#160; &#160;&#160;&#160; First, pick the huckleberries.
&#160;&#160;&#160; &#160;&#160;&#160; &#160;&#160;&#160; Huckleberries have not been successfully tamed and are not grown commercially. You can&#8217;t pop into Safeway and pick up a can of Wyman&#8217;s huckleberries. So, the first step in making muffins is to find a patch of wild huckleberries.
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; Some years ago my friend Carol introduced [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crissy Field, San Francisco</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Length of hike: 1.3 miles from East Beach to Torpedo Wharf
Difficulty: Easy
Best time: Any clear day
Highlights: Bay, bridge, city&#8212;what more could you want?
To get there: If you are already in San Francisco, take Marina Boulevard toward the Golden Gate Bridge. At the west end of the Marina Green, bear right on Mason Street into the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Winds of Tomales Point</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Length: 9.4 miles round-trip, out and back (four to five hours).
Difficulty: Moderate.
Best season: You choose: Late summer is elk mating season, but the hills look desolate from the summer drought. Winter and early spring offer a greener, less stark landscape. Wildflowers are abundant in June.
Highlights: The great views and bird watching where the Pacific Ocean [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mud Lake</title>
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Stewart, Ridge, Lake Ranch, Bolema, and Olema Valley Trails
Point Reyes National Seashore
Length of hike: 7-mile loop
Difficulty: Moderate
Best time: Summer
Highlights: Cool forest, solitude
To get there: From the junction of Sir Francis Drake Boulevard and California Highway 1 at Olema, continue south on Highway 1 for 3.5 miles to the turnoff signed for Five Brooks Trailhead.
The trail: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Estero Trail, Point Reyes National Seashore</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; These hills have everything taken away from them except curve. It&#8217;s like walking into a painting. Or into an illustration in a children&#8217;s book, one about a reclusive child who discovers a landscape reduced to its geometry, a kid geometry of lollipop trees, hills the backs of sleeping giants. Half the painting is wide [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beyond Beauty Ranch&#8211;Jack London State Historic Park</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Length of hike: About 10 miles round-trip, out and back (about 4 hours)
Difficulty: Easy to moderate
Best time: Any season of the year, but the cool weather of autumn and spring is most enjoyable
Highlights: Trees, trees, and wind soughing in trees
To get there: Take California Highway 12 from Santa Rosa to the town of Glen Ellen. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Rowers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kiesling, Stephen. The Shell Game: Reflections on Rowing and the Pursuit of Excellence. Nordic Knight Press, 1982.
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&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; I like to walk at dawn along the river. At this time of day it belongs to a few exercise freaks, the birds, and the rowers. The university rowing team trains here, putting their boats in the water [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Improbable Life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Reiss, Tom. The Orientalist: Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life. Random House, 2005.
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&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; As in the best biographies, the times take center stage in The Orientalist, and what times they were. Perhaps they existed more in the fevered dreams of the vast population of Europe&#8217;s uprooted than in actuality. Nevertheless, the early [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://janemerryman.com/archives/42</link>
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		<title>When a Lover Enters the Room</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rosenblum, Mort. Chocolate: A Bittersweet Saga of Dark and Light. North Point Press, 2005.
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; Phenylethylamine, a molecule produced in the human hypothalamus, triggers the same warm glow one feels when a lover enters the room. This substance is also found in Theobroma cacao, a tropical bean from which we make chocolate. No wonder chocolate expert [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where the Wind Lives</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Zwinger, Ann H., and Beatrice E. Willard. Land Above the Trees, A Guide to American Alpine Tundra. The University of Arizona Press, 1972.
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The land above the trees is a harsh land. Mostly rock&#8212;boulders, talus, scree, pebbles, grit. The sun is merciless; even shadows hide from it. The wind lives here, close to the thunder that [...]]]></description>
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