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hike up

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hike (something) up
to raise something, such as prices, interest rates, a skirt, pants legs, etc. The grocery store is always hiking prices up. She hiked up her skirt so she could wade across the creek.
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``Growing up she would hike up and down the river,'' said Carlene Lampela, Tellez's mother.
Other hikes include the Dutch Flat Road hike which visits the famous China Wall, a stone railroad passage built by Chinese migrants in the1860's; a six-mile round trip hike up to Roller Pass via the Pacific Crest Trail and the Mount Judah Loop; and a strenuous four to six-hour trek through Emigrant Canyon up Coldstream Pass to the Pacific Crest Trail.
 
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