Yuvi Panda, of Berkeley, contemplates the view at Cesar Chavez Park in Berkeley, Calif., on Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group)
Ten years ago, Kurt Schwabe was walking his dog in Marin when he came across a sign for the San Francisco Bay Trail. So he went home and Googled it.
“I wanted a project, one that would mean something,” says Schwabe, a marketing manager in San Francisco who was unemployed at the time. “I had just finished reading Cheryl Strayed’s book ‘Wild,’ where she (wrote about doing) the whole Pacific Crest Trail. This seemed like something that was more