The Progression of
HikaNation was a 14-month cross-country backpacking trip starting at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, California on April 12, 1980, and ending at Cape Henlopen, Delaware on May 27, 1981 after traversing over 4,286 miles and passing through 14 states and Washington, D.C.
Purposes for the hike included highlighting the need for more hiking trails across America and promoting hiking as a low energy consumption form of recreation. |
The HikaNation Story
by Jim Kern
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HikaNation was organized by
Jim Kern, William Kemsley, Jr., Paul Pritchard, Glenn Seaborg, and others, and was sponsored by the American Hiking Society, the
United States Department of the Interior Heritage Conservation and Recreation
Service, and Postum, along with various other suppliers & supporters, including Backpacker magazine.
The Progression of HikaNation details the journey with various organizational memos, letters, newspaper and magazine articles. |
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California Route Information
Cross-country hike...join up for a day or more
April/May 1980
Department of the Interior
April 1, 1980 news release
HikaNation News Releases
for Postum, General Foods Corportion
by Carl Byoir & Associates, Inc.
 
Hikers going back east the hard way
Steve Hascall & Bruce Ohlson
April 2, 1980
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| Sunnyvale hiker ready
for 2,800-mile U.S. walk
April 8, 1980
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Steppin' Out: 4,5000 miles
Linda Hull (with Sponsors)
April 6, 1980
Virginians Pack for Trans-U.S. Trail Hike,
John Mills no stranger to long walks
April 10, 1980
Cross-country hikers get set to leave California,
Bay bridge walk planned April 13
April 11, 1980
The American Hiking Society News:
HikaNation Begins April 12th
& Virginia Tidewater ATC Announcement
Opening Weekend Kickoff Posters,
City of Oakland Proclamation,
Budget for Departure Celebration,
The American Hiking Society's
1980 Transcontinental Hike Route
April 12, 1980
 
HikaNation Opening Weekend
Registration Packet Fact Sheet
with "Route through San Francisco"
April 12, 1980
TGIF
Walk across the Bay Bridge on April 13th, 1980
 
California Legislature--1979-1980 Regular Session
Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 109
Relative to (closing) San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge
 
Glenn Seaborg with HikaNation
including Seaborg's journal entries
April 13, 1980
Glenn Seaborg at 85 (1998)
They're Off and Walking
April 13, 1980
A trek across the nation
Hiking the Bay Bridge
San Francisco, California
April 13, 1980
Walking the Bay Bridge,
Heel 'n' toe
to Oakland they go
April 13, 1980
We Have Walked Where Others Have Only Driven
Oakland Bay Bridge
April 13, 1980
 
Bay bridge to open for hikers,
HikeaNation starts on Bay Bridge,
Bay Bridge stepping off place for Hike-a-Nation,
Hoofing It with Glenn Seaborg journal entries
April 13, 1980
 
HikaNation crossing the Oakland Bay Bridge,
5,000 on Coast Hail Cross-Country Hikers
April 13, 1980
Bay Bridge Hike,
7,000 Cross Span--First Time Since 1936,
7,000 hikers take a rare walk across Bay Bridge
April 13, 1980
 
Hikers on first leg,
4,000 miles by foot
April 13, 1980
15,000 to 25,000,
Hikers gather for U.S. march,
Big hike coming up
4/11/1980 - 4/14/1980
How 7,000 people hiked across the
Bay Bridge from San Francisco to Oakland
April 12, 2022 - San Francisco Chronicle
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Clarifying the Interview |
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AHS News: Volume 4, Number 3:
HikaNation Kick Off: A Resounding Success
March/April 1980
HikaNation Surveys
April 14 - 16 & June 3, 1980
February 23, 1981 & September 28, 2015
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HikaNation travels through
East Bay Regional Park District, California
Tilden Park - Brionnes Park - Shell Ridge - Walnut Creek
Mount Diablo - Black Diamond Mines
April 13 - 18, 1980
HikaNationers greeted in Lafayette,
Hikeathon Winds
Through County,
Diary of a HikaNationer from Moraga,
Hiking to Springhill Elementary School
April 15 - 16, 1980
'HikeaNation' Enters Contra Costa,
Hikers Greet Contra Coasta,
Hikeanation traverses Antioch,
60 Young, Old Walk Across US
April 15 - 22, 1980
They're Not Masochists --- They're Hikers
Walnut Creek, California
April 16, 1980
You're A Good Man, Jim Kern
by William Kemsley, Jr.
April 1980
HikaNation coming to capital,
126 Feet Forward Coast-to-Coast,
Cross-nation hike starts
April 17, 1980
HikaNation Steering Committees
Memorandum to State Route Planners
April 21, 1980
Pyles in the rain
Forecasters Surprised By Showers
north of Freeport, California
April 22, 1980
Sore Feet Slow Cross-Country Hikers,
HikaNation, Get a blister on your bunion,
Hardly a hitch on this hike,
HikaNation route through the Sacramento area
April 22 - 24, 1980
Canned Goods Were Verbotem
Sacramento, California
April 22, 1980
Hikers pause in Placerville, California
April 27, 1980
Department of the Interior and Related Agencies
(Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service)
Appropriations Hearings for Fiscal Year 1981
April 29, 1980
 
Tot learns how to hike before she walks
Kyburz, California
April 30, 1980
 
HikaNation: In The Beginning
by Rex G. Halfpenny
(Conception of HikaNation through California)
HikaNation Journal #1
by Toni Martinazzi
California into Nevada
April 9, 1980 - May 9, 1980
Chapter 1. California
by Janet Hartowicz
HikaNation Jeannie Harmon
One Woman's Journey Across a Continent
by Larry E Carpenter
Seattle Signpost for Northwest Trails:
John Stout's monthly reports on HikaNation;
Looking Back at HikaNation, an interview with Dwight Riggs
Susan Henley Reports from HikaNation
California through Delaware
A 4,000-Mile Trek To Save the Trails
Newsweek Magazine - May 5, 1980
& Backpacker Footnotes - July 1980
HikaNation Fever--It's Spreading
Backpacker Magazine
By William Kemsley, Jr.
The Progression of
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