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By Cristina Risa
Winter is Seattle native Rosemary Prescott’s favorite season. Skiing, climbing and mountaineering are favored pastimes — and she’s an advocate for women getting involved in these pursuits.
Add any-season hiking to her passions and it is no surprise that after spending several years on the East Coast, ... Read more
By Kendra Slagter
I remember sitting at my desk at the office in February, crossing my fingers and hoping there would be a permit date available for mid-April. I had already written off the possibility of getting one considering how quickly they were snatched up when originally released in October ... Read more
By Sara “Peaches” Basinger
April 16th was supposed to be my start date for the Pacific Crest Trail. Instead of standing at the PCT Southern Terminus that morning, posing for the picture I have been dreaming about for years, I went to my job as a registered dietitian at a... Read more
(Editor’s note: This story first appeared in the Winter 2019 issue of the PCT Communicator magazine.)
By Max D’Amato
Blue Gatorade, cheese sticks, fresh socks and underwear — these are some of the things that made a lengthy workday on a long hitch go by fast. In between moving granite ... Read more
By Cristina Risa
“The only difference between an adventure and an ordeal is your attitude.”
— Lauren Williams
PCTA’s Mid-Oregon Volunteers’ Outreach Coordinator Lauren Williams has always loved this sentiment. After speaking with her for this story, I pondered her comment in relation to three aspects of the Pacific Crest ... Read more
By Michelle “Corporate” Nacouzi
This September, my boyfriend Andrew and I flew from New York City to Seattle to join a group of PCTA volunteers for a week of backcountry trail maintenance work in the Goat Rocks Wilderness. It was absolutely incredible! Andrew has a background building mountain bike trails ... Read more
Photos by Aaron Peabody, Karen Wang, Linda Rostad, and Patrick Bangle. Words by Mila Benson, PCTA Volunteer Outreach Intern.
All along the trail, the Pacific Crest Trail Association hosts Trail Skills College (TSC) events. These are premier trail maintenance classes that are free and open to the public. In designing ... Read more
By Eleonore Anderson, Trail Crew Technical Advisor with PCTA
My first backpacking trip to Mission Creek Preserve, northeast of Palm Springs, couldn’t have been more perfect. It was 2018 and I was a new Trail Crew Technical Advisor with the Pacific Crest Trail Association.
The cacti were blooming a stunning ... Read more
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