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Disturbing Details Emerge In Death of 37-Year-Old Woman on Big Sur Camping Trip

Friends say they're heartbroken and details remain sketchy following the death last week of a 37-year-old woman in the Ventana Wilderness area of Los Padres National Forest, near Big Sur.

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Field Notes: Ube, Latkes, Native Plants of the Presidio, and Sarah Winchester’s Architectural Vision

This week: The real story behind the Winchester Mystery House, a historic artist’s studio-turned-artwork, a gifted local teenage violinist, and entrepreneurial high schoolers. Plus, hiking via public transit, the Presidio’s native plants, all things ube, and tasty holiday latkes.

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Day Around the Bay: Drag Queen Pattie Gonia Raises $1 Million for Nonprofits on 100-Mile Hike to SF

Regulators from the European Union fined Elon Musk’s X $140 million for violating transparency rules; Governor Newsom had a public spat with actress Halley Berry; and drag queen and environmentalist Patty Gonia raised $1 million for nonprofits prior to her show at the Warfield Saturday.

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The 21 Best Socially Distant Hikes to Take in the Bay Area

With the Bay Area now firmly in summer's grip — and still very much held hostage by the pandemic, as well — taking some time to go on a walk on the wild side is one of the safest, least risky activities one can partake in currently.

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One Person Killed After Cliff Collapse In Point Reyes

A hiker was killed and another injured after a cliff collapsed in Point Reyes National Seashore. The Arch Rock overlook, popular with hikers, crumbled into the sea sometime before 6 p.m. on

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Bickering Kills Some Coastal Trail Upgrades

by Matt Baume Well, it would have been nice, but it's not going to happen. A delightful upgrade to a waterfront trail in the Presidio has officially been given the gong.

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Marin Headlands Hiker Falls to Her Death

While taking in the (allegedly) gorgeous weather yesterday, a 20-year-old Marin hiker fell from the cliffs above Rodeo Beach in the Marin Headlands, and died. The unidentified woman, while walking with

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Eat it, Portland! San Francisco Most "Walkable" City

Everybody get and Fancy Free: A Field Survey of Walkable Urban Places in the Top 30 U.S. Metropolitan Areas here in .pdf. But why are we talking about Portland? And what about

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Three Questions For The Burritoeater

We enjoy visiting Charles Hodgkins' Web site, Burritoeater. Not necessarily for the opinions within his numerous reviews of taquerias (which can be a valuable resource), more because we just like his writing.

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Elsewhere in the Ist-a-verse

LAist is experimenting with blogging dates from J-Date, but finds the best men are found offline. Some date vicariously online and that is one reason why porn is big -- really freaking big

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The Great Outdoors: El Corte Madera Creek Open Space Preserve

First off, let's clarify the name. It may be El Corte Madera Creek Open Space Preserve (ECM) on the maps, but in the hearts and minds of locals, it's

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Justice for Strippers

According to plaintiff's attorney Greg Walston, this hourly minimum (derived from the rate at the worker-owned and operated Lusty Lady), is meant to protect dancers from having to resort to

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Sometimes We Have To Wait Until November To Get Our September Summer

The only thing missing from this full-blown summer are the extra hours we lost to Daylight Takings Away a couple weeks back. (Did you know the federal government has already legislated extending

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SFist Cares ... About Public Land

It's a total no-duh that the Bay Area is filled with natural beauty. The hills and the bay and the bridges and the ocean - all of it stunning and fabulous.

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This Weather Blows And It's Not Even Windy

What in the name of Sam Francisco is going on here? We paid our dues. We holed up in our homes for the winter storms. We crawled along in Bay Area traffic thanks

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SFist Weekend Getaway - Point Reyes National Seashore

Not everyone at SFist had Columbus Day off, but that did not stop us from taking advantage of a beautiful, cloud free Saturday to head up to Point Reyes National Seashore. Point Reyes

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Getting The Shakes

Earthquakes of magnitude 2-2.8 are nothing by San Francisco standards, but when Mount St. Helens starts feeling 10 of them in a 24-hour period, we here at SFist know that&