John Muir wrote the often quoted line “the mountains are calling and I must go . . .” in a letter to his sister Sarah Muir Galloway. Going to the mountains wasn’t that hard of a challenge for the man who incessantly studied, hiked, climbed, documented and wrote about the California wilderness and founded the Sierra Club.
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There are more than 170 mountain ranges in the Golden State with four of the biggest towering over the Great Central Valley