Ah, spring, when a Pacific Northwest hiker’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of trails – maybe even the Pacific Crest Trail, the big kahuna of Pacific Northwest trails. If you're planning to get out ...

In 2020, Eugene, Oregon, trail runner Emily Halnon did something faster than anyone’s ever done before. She broke the record for running the fastest known time of the Oregon Pacific Crest Trail, ...

A new book documents the stories of a husband-and-wife hiking team and others who tackled the 2,653-mile long Pacific Crest Trail in the western U.S. The author is Barney Scout Mann. Having also ...

Andrea Lankford left a decorated career as a park ranger after growing tired of the bureaucracy involved. But years later, three young men went missing on the Pacific Crest Trail in relatively similar ...

Cheryl Strayed’s “Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail” (2012) — a best-selling memoir and later a successful film — introduced a large, new audience to the allure of the West’s most ...

Less crowded than the Appalachian Trail and better marked than the Continental Divide Trail, the PCT might just be the Goldilocks of long-distance National Scenic Trails. More than half of the ...

One of the longest hikes in America, the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) winds through the wilderness from Mexico to Canada, with rugged sections in California among the most difficult of any along the ...