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hiking a sport
TALES

Is Hiking a Sport?

Is Hiking a Sport? During my long tenure as the Los Angeles Times hiking columnist, my weekly hiking columns were published in several different parts…
John McKinney
January 23, 2020
better have switchbacks
TALES

Homage to Switchbacks

“What’s wrong with this trail?” the perspiring young sportsman in the Boston Red Sox baseball cap complains to me as I catch up with him…
John McKinney
January 18, 2020
laughter
TALES

WALK with Laughter

Maybe it’s the outwardly stern image of the serious exercise-walker, striding with erect posture, a jabbing arm swing, and unsmiling face that suggests walkers can’t…
John McKinney
August 10, 2019
hiking humor
TALES

Hiking Humor

Hikers have a sense of humor. Really. Perhaps we project a too serious demeanor as we climb to the top of the hill, prompting non-hikers…
John McKinney
January 19, 2016