Whether it’s by donating, volunteering on path maintenance days, or cheering us on social media, your support for the paths continues to sustain us. If you value the paths as a local source of inspiration and restoration during these times, I hope you will support our group’s work into the new year and beyond.

It took falling down twice on Upton Lane — once on wet leaves and another on dry — for John Ford to choose the path for adoption.

On steep slopes on the north side of the UC campus, volunteers with the Berkeley Path Wanderers Association are hard at work bringing the Hilgard Path to life. “It’s going to be very attractive,” says Charlie Bowen, BPWA’s path-building lead.

Berkeley’s team of virtuoso path-builders has completed the rerouting of Wildcat Path, which connects Park Hills with Tilden Regional Park.