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Sunday, May 19, 2013 | 7:32 p.m.

Hiker finds note left by teen in 1972

Forty years after he left a note on a mountaintop deep in the Sierra Nevada backcountry, asking its finder to write him, San Diego Superior Court Judge Tim Taylor has gotten his wish. Taylor, who was raised in La Cañada Flintridge, was hiking solo in Sequoia National Park in August 1972 — his Boy Scout troop bivouacked a short distance away — when he put a pencil to a lined sheet of paper: