Mike McReynolds
San Francisco Bay Area Chairman
San Francisco, California

The American Hiking Society News Hike-A-Nation Begins April 12	HikaNation - How It Began
Memos, letters, etc., detailing "HikaNation - How It Began": Mike McReynolds' HikaNation "Publicity, Public Relations, Logistics"

California Legislature - 1979-1980 Regular Session Assembly Concurrent Resolution    No. 109 Relative to (closing) Oakland Bay Bridge

Mike, Jim, Norman -- 4/12/1980 (photo by Janet Parsons)

Mike, after HikaNation

1983 -- Mike at the Arctic Circle on a solo trip to Baffin Island.	2008 -- Mike on the deck of the Russian Icebreaker Kapitan Khlebnikov while on a month-long circumnavigation of Antarctica.
August 2018 -- Mike and his dog Cole on the Oregon beach.
After HikaNation, I continued the challenge of the Canadian Rockies with a side trip over to Baffin Island, learning how to Scuba Dive at the age of 48 achieving Divemaster at 50, island-hopping across the South Pacific, sailing the Great Barrier Reef in a 32 foot Westsail, three safaris in Southern Africa, several trips to the Klondike and the Arctic Ocean, a summer in Scotland and the Outer Northern and Western Islands, and finally Argentina, New Zealand and The Russian Ice Breaker Adventure in Antarctica. Plus, there were the slightly more unpleasant memories of nearly drowning in the Zambezi River Class 5 rapids below Victoria Falls, hyperthermia on Baffin Island and contacting a very bad deadly strain of malaria on Papua New Guinea. Luckily I have pics and videos which (at 80) are major in keying off so many now almost latent memories. HikaNation still remains one of the most important events in my life because at a crucial time it taught me so much about myself, my abilities and potential, and most importantly about life's undreamed possibilities (see above as examples, and no, I am definitely NOT independently wealthy...far, far from it!). August 10, 2018: On our favorite beach. Notice how impossibly crowded it is. About ten to fifteen people scattered on this stretch. Very typical of Summer on this unknown stretch of the Oregon Coast. Great dog beach...leash-free and generally tourist-free. (That's a fog bank out on the horizon...Hawai'i a short distance (!) beyond...I wish.) Along with the pic of Cole and me, I though I'd enclose a second shot which shows about 15 miles or so of beach down to Cape Perpetua to the south. We're here almost daily.