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Head for the hills!

hey say you don’t appreciate what you have until it’s gone. When summer arrived last year, I contacted every friend and distant acquaintance for a season of hiking – mostly for fun, but also to collect stories for this year’sSunday hikes. The members? A handful of fellow hikers in Cape Town. The goal? To walk a different trail on Table Mountain every weekend. How many hikes did we do? Close to none. But I’m getting ahead of myself.

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