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"content": "\u003cp>What are these structures popping up along the sidewalks of Berkeley? Big birdhouses? Doll houses? Or are they homes small enough to actually be affordable in this crazy real estate market? Nope. None of the above. They are actually part of a worldwide phenomenon called Little Free Libraries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley now has over 20 of these charming mini-libraries that have become neighborhood meeting spots for book lovers of all ages. The idea is simple: Take a book, return a book.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10345736\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library1.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10345736\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library1.jpeg\" alt=\"A Little Free Library in Berkeley, on Yolo Avenue near Milvia, one of at least 22 in the city. 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It was set on a post outside his home and filled with books that were free to passers-by, who then returned them or brought other books to share.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea grew, and Bol partnered with Rick Brooks soon after to launch the \u003ca href=\"http://littlefreelibrary.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Little Free Library nonprofit\u003c/a>. An early goal was to build more little libraries than Andrew Carnegie’s 2,509 real libraries constructed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. That number was easily surpassed. There are more than 18,000 Little Libraries officially registered on a world map on \u003ca href=\"http://littlefreelibrary.org/\" target=\"_blank\">the group’s website\u003c/a>, where you can zoom in on your neighborhood to see where the closest one to you might be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The website also has an assortment of different makes and models of libraries you can order but, this being Berkeley, we are lucky to have lots of interesting and unusual designs to house books.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10345737\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library3.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10345737\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library3.jpeg\" alt=\"This library is made from an old wine box and is on Sonoma Avenue near Neilson. (Colleen Neff/Berkeleyside)\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library3.jpeg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library3-400x225.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This library is made from an old wine box and is on Sonoma Avenue near Neilson Street. (Colleen Neff/Berkeleyside)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Who can resist the library with a living roof that is near several community gardens on Santa Fe Avenue? Or the tall, thin, three-shelved box lit up with a solar panel on The Arlington? Or the earliest Little Library in town up on Santa Barbara near Marin (registered #1449), with the small notebook to sign out your books? Or the one on Sonoma near Neilson that is made from a wooden wine crate? Each library has its charms — and its steward, as the owners and caretakers of Little Libraries are called.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the sweetest in town is in the front yard of Linda Davis on Parker Street. Complete with a miniature banner on top that announces a new poem of the day inside and a homemade curtain that decorates the front window, this library has been “a real neighborhood project”, says Davis. The dedication ceremony in November 2013 included tea, cookies and lots of folks from the block who pitched in with the construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Children’s books are the hardest to keep stocked in the library,” said Davis. “They just fly out the door!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10345739\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library4.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10345739\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library4.jpeg\" alt=\"This library is on Francisco Street, about a block up from San Pablo Avenue. (Colleen Neff/Berkeleyside)\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library4.jpeg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library4-400x300.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This library is on Francisco Street, about a block up from San Pablo Avenue. (Colleen Neff/Berkeleyside)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Caring for her library has not been without its difficulties and heartbreak, however, as the Little Library has had a couple of thefts of the entire contents. Davis’ neighbors, Barbara Shayesteh and Chris Witt, speculate that someone was trying to resell the books to a secondhand store. Hoping to alert stores and potential buyers, each book is now stamped with red ink on the inside cover: “Always a gift; Never for sale, This book is from a Little Free Library.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So grab a book you no longer need and head out for a walk to your nearest Little Free Library to see if there’s something there you might want to borrow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I just noticed a brand-new Little Library last week on Walnut Street near Live Oak Park that is registered as #18,153. That’s quite a success story that all started with six simple words: “Take a book, return a book.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10345742\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 690px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library-5.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10345742\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library-5.jpeg\" alt=\"This library, with a solar collector for the lights inside, is on The Arlington in Berkeley just before you reach Kensington. (Colleen Neff/Berkeleyside)\" width=\"690\" height=\"1028\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library-5.jpeg 690w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library-5-400x595.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 690px) 100vw, 690px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This library, with a solar collector for the lights inside, is on The Arlington in Berkeley just before you reach Kensington. (Colleen Neff/Berkeleyside)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10345743\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library6.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10345743\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library6.jpeg\" alt=\"This library, with its little notepad and pencil, is the first Little Library Neff saw in Berkeley years ago. It is on the corner of Marin and Santa Barbara avenues. (Colleen Neff/Berkeleyside)\" width=\"720\" height=\"498\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library6.jpeg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library6-400x276.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This library, with its little notepad and pencil, is the first Little Library Neff saw in Berkeley years ago. It is on the corner of Marin and Santa Barbara avenues. (Colleen Neff/Berkeleyside)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10345744\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library7.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10345744\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library7.jpeg\" alt=\"This library is on Eunice Avenue near Arch. The library owner/steward was the late Vera Bomse (she died in February but loved her library!). The house has since been sold but the library remains. (Colleen Neff/Berkeleyside)\" width=\"720\" height=\"537\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library7.jpeg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library7-400x298.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This library is on Eunice Street near Arch. The library owner/steward was the late Vera Bomse (she died in February but loved her library!). The house has since been sold but the library remains. (Colleen Neff/Berkeleyside)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10345745\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library8.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10345745\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library8.jpeg\" alt=\"This library is on Shattuck Avenue where Walnut Street ends, and belongs to the author, Colleen Neff. (Colleen Neff/Berkeleyside)\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library8.jpeg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library8-400x400.jpeg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library8-32x32.jpeg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library8-64x64.jpeg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library8-96x96.jpeg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library8-128x128.jpeg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library8-75x75.jpeg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This library is on Shattuck Avenue where Walnut Street ends, and belongs to the author, Colleen Neff. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>What are these structures popping up along the sidewalks of Berkeley? Big birdhouses? Doll houses? Or are they homes small enough to actually be affordable in this crazy real estate market? Nope. None of the above. They are actually part of a worldwide phenomenon called Little Free Libraries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley now has over 20 of these charming mini-libraries that have become neighborhood meeting spots for book lovers of all ages. The idea is simple: Take a book, return a book.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10345736\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library1.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10345736\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library1.jpeg\" alt=\"A Little Free Library in Berkeley, on Yolo Avenue near Milvia, one of at least 22 in the city. (Colleen Neff/Berkeleyside)\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library1.jpeg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library1-400x400.jpeg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library1-32x32.jpeg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library1-64x64.jpeg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library1-96x96.jpeg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library1-128x128.jpeg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library1-75x75.jpeg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Little Free Library in Berkeley, on Yolo Avenue near Milvia, one of at least 22 in the city. (Colleen Neff/Berkeleyside)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It all started in 2009 in Wisconsin when Todd Bol built a small replica of a one-room schoolhouse to honor his mother, who had been a teacher. It was set on a post outside his home and filled with books that were free to passers-by, who then returned them or brought other books to share.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea grew, and Bol partnered with Rick Brooks soon after to launch the \u003ca href=\"http://littlefreelibrary.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Little Free Library nonprofit\u003c/a>. An early goal was to build more little libraries than Andrew Carnegie’s 2,509 real libraries constructed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. That number was easily surpassed. There are more than 18,000 Little Libraries officially registered on a world map on \u003ca href=\"http://littlefreelibrary.org/\" target=\"_blank\">the group’s website\u003c/a>, where you can zoom in on your neighborhood to see where the closest one to you might be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The website also has an assortment of different makes and models of libraries you can order but, this being Berkeley, we are lucky to have lots of interesting and unusual designs to house books.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10345737\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library3.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10345737\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library3.jpeg\" alt=\"This library is made from an old wine box and is on Sonoma Avenue near Neilson. (Colleen Neff/Berkeleyside)\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library3.jpeg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library3-400x225.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This library is made from an old wine box and is on Sonoma Avenue near Neilson Street. (Colleen Neff/Berkeleyside)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Who can resist the library with a living roof that is near several community gardens on Santa Fe Avenue? Or the tall, thin, three-shelved box lit up with a solar panel on The Arlington? Or the earliest Little Library in town up on Santa Barbara near Marin (registered #1449), with the small notebook to sign out your books? Or the one on Sonoma near Neilson that is made from a wooden wine crate? Each library has its charms — and its steward, as the owners and caretakers of Little Libraries are called.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the sweetest in town is in the front yard of Linda Davis on Parker Street. Complete with a miniature banner on top that announces a new poem of the day inside and a homemade curtain that decorates the front window, this library has been “a real neighborhood project”, says Davis. The dedication ceremony in November 2013 included tea, cookies and lots of folks from the block who pitched in with the construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Children’s books are the hardest to keep stocked in the library,” said Davis. “They just fly out the door!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10345739\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library4.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10345739\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library4.jpeg\" alt=\"This library is on Francisco Street, about a block up from San Pablo Avenue. (Colleen Neff/Berkeleyside)\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library4.jpeg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library4-400x300.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This library is on Francisco Street, about a block up from San Pablo Avenue. (Colleen Neff/Berkeleyside)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Caring for her library has not been without its difficulties and heartbreak, however, as the Little Library has had a couple of thefts of the entire contents. Davis’ neighbors, Barbara Shayesteh and Chris Witt, speculate that someone was trying to resell the books to a secondhand store. Hoping to alert stores and potential buyers, each book is now stamped with red ink on the inside cover: “Always a gift; Never for sale, This book is from a Little Free Library.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So grab a book you no longer need and head out for a walk to your nearest Little Free Library to see if there’s something there you might want to borrow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I just noticed a brand-new Little Library last week on Walnut Street near Live Oak Park that is registered as #18,153. That’s quite a success story that all started with six simple words: “Take a book, return a book.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10345742\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 690px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library-5.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10345742\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library-5.jpeg\" alt=\"This library, with a solar collector for the lights inside, is on The Arlington in Berkeley just before you reach Kensington. (Colleen Neff/Berkeleyside)\" width=\"690\" height=\"1028\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library-5.jpeg 690w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library-5-400x595.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 690px) 100vw, 690px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This library, with a solar collector for the lights inside, is on The Arlington in Berkeley just before you reach Kensington. (Colleen Neff/Berkeleyside)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10345743\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library6.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10345743\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library6.jpeg\" alt=\"This library, with its little notepad and pencil, is the first Little Library Neff saw in Berkeley years ago. It is on the corner of Marin and Santa Barbara avenues. (Colleen Neff/Berkeleyside)\" width=\"720\" height=\"498\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library6.jpeg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library6-400x276.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This library, with its little notepad and pencil, is the first Little Library Neff saw in Berkeley years ago. It is on the corner of Marin and Santa Barbara avenues. (Colleen Neff/Berkeleyside)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10345744\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library7.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10345744\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library7.jpeg\" alt=\"This library is on Eunice Avenue near Arch. The library owner/steward was the late Vera Bomse (she died in February but loved her library!). The house has since been sold but the library remains. (Colleen Neff/Berkeleyside)\" width=\"720\" height=\"537\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library7.jpeg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/library7-400x298.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This library is on Eunice Street near Arch. The library owner/steward was the late Vera Bomse (she died in February but loved her library!). The house has since been sold but the library remains. 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"content": "\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/170542112\" params=\"color=ff5500&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"20\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now, there are backpackers crossing into Canada after five months of hiking the Pacific Crest Trail. They're called thru-hikers, and they started the trail in Mexico and will traverse 2,650 miles. Now, the lazy among us might have just read \"Wild,\" Cheryl Strayed's memoir about the Pacific Crest Trail. The even lazier among us may be waiting for the movie to come out in December. The hikers who actually make this trek see toenails fall off and their feet can swell whole shoe sizes. They say the only thing they talk about more than their feet is food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After hiking 1,000-miles of their journey, food is what Silicon Valley engineer Hank Magnuski will have waiting for them. Once or twice a year, he sets up the Sonora Pass Cafe, a pop-up feast he provides at no cost for those hiking past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shopping at a Costco, Hank Magnuski picks up five packs of chocolate chip cookies and eyes a chocolate cake that's 7 inches high, a foot across, and covered with icing and shaved chocolate flakes. \"I can go through a cake like this in about a day,\" he laughs. He heads to the fruit section, piling packages of cherries, apricots and bananas into his cart. \"Bananas have a lot of nutrients. It's a favorite hiker food.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5\">If you Google Magnuski, you'll learn that he's kind of a big deal in telecommunications, but that's not going to matter to the people he's shopping for. After he leaves, he'll head out to the Pacific Crest Trail -- known as the PCT -- and wait for a herd of hikers.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They won't know about his Silicon Valley life. They'll know him mostly by his trail name, The Owl, a nickname he received for his pensive personality. They'll remember him as the guy who greeted them with the first indulgent desserts and fresh fruits they'd seen in hundreds of miles\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10342199\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/SonoraPassCafeTable.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10342199\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/SonoraPassCafeTable-400x225.jpg\" alt=\"Hank Magnuski (L) feeds hikers, including some who took advantage of his wifi with their smartphones. (Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/SonoraPassCafeTable-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/SonoraPassCafeTable.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hank Magnuski (L) feeds hikers, including some who took advantage of his wifi with their smartphones. (Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While Magnuski shops, unsuspecting hikers trek a really beautiful but tough patch of the PCT south of the Sonora Pass. It's deep wilderness. Within a 300-mile stretch, there's only one road -- Yosemite's Highway 120 -- that crosses the PCT. For a week, hikers scale a steep pass every day, with some peaks as high as 14,000 feet. They hike past lakes, dip into deep canyons and pass by granite cliffs, in wilderness areas with famous names, like Emigrant, Yosemite and John Muir. They face swarms of mosquitoes, unpredictable weather and snow, even in this drought year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5\">One hiker is Shannon Pepper -- trail name Pan -- from Missoula, Montana. The recent college graduate sings to lift her spirits on the trail. Pan says hikers typically leave the trail every five days or so to shower and restock their food. It's mostly dried and dehydrated to keep their packs light. \"When you're on trail and you're carrying all your own meals, it can get really scary when you are close to being out,\" Pepper says. \"I feel like I have a little better perspective on what it really means to be hungry. We live in a society of plenty, and there isn't plenty when you have to carry all of it.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\"They’re doing 25 miles a day. It’s like a marathon every single day for six months. Trail magic helps alleviate the pain.\"\u003ccite>Hank Magnuski\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5\">Plenty is exactly what Pan finds, when she walks into a picnic area where Hank Magnuski is waiting with a table full of all that food from Costco. As every hiker approaches, he says, \"I'm The Owl. I'm your host here, help yourself.\" \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5\">This is the Sonora Pass Cafe. Magnuski sets it up when he knows there will be a lot of PCT traffic. In the three days he's here this time, 50 hikers come through, with trail names like Gottawalk, Pesky, Laugh Track and Park. None of them expected this. Laugh Track is too distracted to talk to a reporter. \"Oh, I just got a cookie with a cherry on top. Magic!\" She and friends take selfies with the signature Sonora Pass Cookie. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5\">Pesky says, \"There's a chocolate cake you can't even imagine on the trail.\" Pan can't get over the high-quality beer or the Wi-Fi that Magnuski set up. \"Currently I'm blogging,\" she says, incredulously. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5\">Magnuski lays out china and bowls of fruit on a tablecloth. He arranges camping chairs and newspapers. On a nearby tree, he hangs a dartboard he calls \"Hikers Revenge,\" with a picture of a mosquito in the middle. Park is delighted. \"There's totally a mosquito on the dartboard! All right, I'm going to stick it to you for sticking it to me!\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5\">Magnuski doesn't say much, but smiles broadly as he brews gourmet coffee on a portable stove. \"The PCT folks, they're doing 25 miles a day. It's like a marathon every single day for six months. Trail magic helps alleviate the pain.\" Trail magic is any help or treat offered to PCT hikers. Trail angels provide water, or free rides, or hiker-friendly food like what Magnuski presents at the Sonora Pass Cafe.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10342213\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/PanCoffeeDoughnut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10342213 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/PanCoffeeDoughnut-400x333.jpg\" alt=\"Shannon Pepper, trail name Pan, grabs fresh coffee and a doughnut at the Sonora Pass Cafe. (Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\" width=\"400\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/PanCoffeeDoughnut-400x333.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/PanCoffeeDoughnut.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shannon Pepper, trail name Pan, grabs fresh coffee and a doughnut at the Sonora Pass Cafe. (Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There's a really experienced hiker here today: Marsha Powers (trail name Gottawalk) from the Bay Area town of Pleasanton. She's thru-hiking the PCT for the third time, solo this time, after completing the Continental Divide Trail, the Appalachian Trail and the cross-country American Discovery Trail with her husband.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Trail magic is serendipity. You don't hike along expecting to reach Sonora Pass and be fed wonderfully like The Owl did for us today,\" she says. \"As a hiker, I don't think that I expect it or deserve it, but I'm thankful and grateful for it when it happens along.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, what does it do for a hiker to come across a surprise like this? \"Connection with the outer world is part of it. Calories are part of it, because we hike along with calorie deficit,\" she says. \"It reinforces one of the major lessons that we've learned, that the people are good, kindhearted people, in spite of all the news that you read and hear. I think that's very reaffirming.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Magnuski says he considers it an honor to be out here. He discovered the Sierra nearly 20 years ago, chaperoning his son's Boy Scout trips. \"I grew to love the mountains. It's really my cathedral out here. I got involved in trail work when he went to college and I had no one to hike with.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Magnuski joined a trail crew maintaining this section of the PCT, and realized how barren the Sonora Pass is, even this picnic area. \"There's nothing here but trees and a privy. The thought of a full-blown cafe in the middle of the wilderness seemed like a neat idea,\" he says with a laugh. So, 10 years ago, he hosted his first Sonora Pass Cafe here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now he's spraying whipped cream onto a cookie and handing it to an exhausted Cat Addison, trail name Cat Dog. She's from Bend, Oregon, and she hasn't come down off the trail to rest or replenish her pack in nine days. \"When I got to the trailhead and saw this little sign that there was trail magic, I started to cry,\" she says, with relief in her voice. \"I was so tired. I'm so glad to be here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Addison is 62. Plenty of other hikers are 40 years her junior. A decade ago, she hiked the Appalachian Trail, but she's thru-hiking the PCT for the first time. \"The Sierras have kicked me around a little bit. I mean I've had a couple meltdowns, a couple face plants, that didn't feel too good,\" she says with a laugh. \"But people say the trail provides, and sometimes it does.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10342206\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/TrailSign.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10342206\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/TrailSign-400x225.jpg\" alt=\"Magnuski brings a sign for hikers to take their photos next to, marking the first 1,000 miles of the PCT. (Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/TrailSign-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/TrailSign.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Magnuski brings a sign for hikers to take their photos next to, marking the first 1,000 miles of the PCT. (Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gage Waffle nearly ran out of food on the trail and is gorging on whipped cream, cake and carrots. He's from Tulsa, Oklahoma, and he's in his 20s. He was working on a gas pipeline when a buddy called and proposed they hike the trail together. \"I didn't ask any questions. I just said, 'I'm in,' \" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three weeks before their start date, his friend backed out. \"So I decided to come alone. I'd never really done anything, been out on an adventure on my own, so I was kind of terrified at first. This whole experience has just taken all that away, allowed me to not worry about things that could go wrong, but just enjoy what's going right. Like this right here, at Sonora Pass.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, there's color in the cheeks and light in the eyes of the hikers as they throw on their packs, and head out for a few more hours on the trail. Before they leave, they give a big cheer for Magnuski and his trail magic. He wishes them luck on the rest of their journey, congratulates them on their first 1,000 miles and says, \"That's your last 10,000-foot peak up there. It's all downhill from there.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.californiafoodways.com/\">California Foodways\u003c/a> is made possible with support from Cal Humanities, a nonprofit partner of the NEH. Visit www.calhum.org.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Vickie Ly did additional reporting for this piece.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They won't know about his Silicon Valley life. They'll know him mostly by his trail name, The Owl, a nickname he received for his pensive personality. They'll remember him as the guy who greeted them with the first indulgent desserts and fresh fruits they'd seen in hundreds of miles\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10342199\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/SonoraPassCafeTable.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10342199\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/SonoraPassCafeTable-400x225.jpg\" alt=\"Hank Magnuski (L) feeds hikers, including some who took advantage of his wifi with their smartphones. (Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/SonoraPassCafeTable-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/SonoraPassCafeTable.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hank Magnuski (L) feeds hikers, including some who took advantage of his wifi with their smartphones. (Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While Magnuski shops, unsuspecting hikers trek a really beautiful but tough patch of the PCT south of the Sonora Pass. It's deep wilderness. Within a 300-mile stretch, there's only one road -- Yosemite's Highway 120 -- that crosses the PCT. For a week, hikers scale a steep pass every day, with some peaks as high as 14,000 feet. They hike past lakes, dip into deep canyons and pass by granite cliffs, in wilderness areas with famous names, like Emigrant, Yosemite and John Muir. They face swarms of mosquitoes, unpredictable weather and snow, even in this drought year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5\">One hiker is Shannon Pepper -- trail name Pan -- from Missoula, Montana. The recent college graduate sings to lift her spirits on the trail. Pan says hikers typically leave the trail every five days or so to shower and restock their food. It's mostly dried and dehydrated to keep their packs light. \"When you're on trail and you're carrying all your own meals, it can get really scary when you are close to being out,\" Pepper says. \"I feel like I have a little better perspective on what it really means to be hungry. We live in a society of plenty, and there isn't plenty when you have to carry all of it.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\"They’re doing 25 miles a day. It’s like a marathon every single day for six months. Trail magic helps alleviate the pain.\"\u003ccite>Hank Magnuski\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5\">Plenty is exactly what Pan finds, when she walks into a picnic area where Hank Magnuski is waiting with a table full of all that food from Costco. As every hiker approaches, he says, \"I'm The Owl. I'm your host here, help yourself.\" \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5\">This is the Sonora Pass Cafe. Magnuski sets it up when he knows there will be a lot of PCT traffic. In the three days he's here this time, 50 hikers come through, with trail names like Gottawalk, Pesky, Laugh Track and Park. None of them expected this. Laugh Track is too distracted to talk to a reporter. \"Oh, I just got a cookie with a cherry on top. Magic!\" She and friends take selfies with the signature Sonora Pass Cookie. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5\">Pesky says, \"There's a chocolate cake you can't even imagine on the trail.\" Pan can't get over the high-quality beer or the Wi-Fi that Magnuski set up. \"Currently I'm blogging,\" she says, incredulously. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5\">Magnuski lays out china and bowls of fruit on a tablecloth. He arranges camping chairs and newspapers. On a nearby tree, he hangs a dartboard he calls \"Hikers Revenge,\" with a picture of a mosquito in the middle. Park is delighted. \"There's totally a mosquito on the dartboard! All right, I'm going to stick it to you for sticking it to me!\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5\">Magnuski doesn't say much, but smiles broadly as he brews gourmet coffee on a portable stove. \"The PCT folks, they're doing 25 miles a day. It's like a marathon every single day for six months. Trail magic helps alleviate the pain.\" Trail magic is any help or treat offered to PCT hikers. Trail angels provide water, or free rides, or hiker-friendly food like what Magnuski presents at the Sonora Pass Cafe.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10342213\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/PanCoffeeDoughnut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10342213 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/PanCoffeeDoughnut-400x333.jpg\" alt=\"Shannon Pepper, trail name Pan, grabs fresh coffee and a doughnut at the Sonora Pass Cafe. (Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\" width=\"400\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/PanCoffeeDoughnut-400x333.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/PanCoffeeDoughnut.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shannon Pepper, trail name Pan, grabs fresh coffee and a doughnut at the Sonora Pass Cafe. (Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There's a really experienced hiker here today: Marsha Powers (trail name Gottawalk) from the Bay Area town of Pleasanton. She's thru-hiking the PCT for the third time, solo this time, after completing the Continental Divide Trail, the Appalachian Trail and the cross-country American Discovery Trail with her husband.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Trail magic is serendipity. You don't hike along expecting to reach Sonora Pass and be fed wonderfully like The Owl did for us today,\" she says. \"As a hiker, I don't think that I expect it or deserve it, but I'm thankful and grateful for it when it happens along.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, what does it do for a hiker to come across a surprise like this? \"Connection with the outer world is part of it. Calories are part of it, because we hike along with calorie deficit,\" she says. \"It reinforces one of the major lessons that we've learned, that the people are good, kindhearted people, in spite of all the news that you read and hear. I think that's very reaffirming.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Magnuski says he considers it an honor to be out here. He discovered the Sierra nearly 20 years ago, chaperoning his son's Boy Scout trips. \"I grew to love the mountains. It's really my cathedral out here. I got involved in trail work when he went to college and I had no one to hike with.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Magnuski joined a trail crew maintaining this section of the PCT, and realized how barren the Sonora Pass is, even this picnic area. \"There's nothing here but trees and a privy. The thought of a full-blown cafe in the middle of the wilderness seemed like a neat idea,\" he says with a laugh. So, 10 years ago, he hosted his first Sonora Pass Cafe here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now he's spraying whipped cream onto a cookie and handing it to an exhausted Cat Addison, trail name Cat Dog. She's from Bend, Oregon, and she hasn't come down off the trail to rest or replenish her pack in nine days. \"When I got to the trailhead and saw this little sign that there was trail magic, I started to cry,\" she says, with relief in her voice. \"I was so tired. I'm so glad to be here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Addison is 62. Plenty of other hikers are 40 years her junior. A decade ago, she hiked the Appalachian Trail, but she's thru-hiking the PCT for the first time. \"The Sierras have kicked me around a little bit. I mean I've had a couple meltdowns, a couple face plants, that didn't feel too good,\" she says with a laugh. \"But people say the trail provides, and sometimes it does.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10342206\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/TrailSign.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10342206\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/TrailSign-400x225.jpg\" alt=\"Magnuski brings a sign for hikers to take their photos next to, marking the first 1,000 miles of the PCT. 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Slotnick lost his hearing to meningitis when he was 3. His parents used every means possible to keep him from feeling isolated in the world. Looking back, he’s still astonished at everything he has accomplished.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m amazed that I went to Harvard,” he says. “I’m amazed. I don’t know how I did it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Harvard, he worked for decades in computer programming. It’s almost as if no one ever told him that he’s deaf. But then this time of year comes around. The Jewish scholar Maimonides said that Jews are obligated to hear the sound of the shofar -- which is something that’s not part of his world at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know some people love it and they’re very moved by it, but for me, no,” he explains. “I have no concept of sound at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10342409\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/12553_transform.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10342409\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/12553_transform-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Joe Slotnick and Florence Haberman, congregants at Temple Beth Solomon of the Deaf in Northridge. 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The incidents were documented by the American Library Association and the Kids' Right to Read Project. Targeted books in the Bay Area include T. Coraghessan Boyle's \"The Tortilla Curtain\"\u003ca href=\"http://extracredit.blogs.pressdemocrat.com/11762/parent-not-convinced-tortilla-curtain-belongs-in-class/\" target=\"_blank\"> in Santa Rosa\u003c/a>, Lois Lowry's \"The Giver' in the Mt. 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