Mark Larabee is the PCTA's Advocacy Director. He is the former editor of the "PCT Communicator" magazine and co-author of "The Pacific Crest Trail: Exploring America's Wilderness Trail" published in 2016. Larabee is a journalist, part of a team who won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news for The Oregonian newspaper. He hiked the PCT across Oregon for a 2005 series for the paper and has been with PCTA since 2010. He lives in Portland.
Volunteer Caretaker Jack Konner, who helped build the Pacific Crest Trail Association’s Mount Hood Chapter into a trail-maintaining powerhouse, died Nov. 11, 2016. He was 89.
Jack, who lived in Beaverton, Oregon, was one of the Mount Hood Chapter’s earliest section caretakers. As the chapter’s first volunteer coordinator during a ... Read more
Did you take that magical photo this year while hiking or riding your horse on the PCT? Got a great shot of the scenery, wildlife or volunteers taking care of the trial?
Then enter our annual photo contest.
We’ll select many of the pictures we’ll publish in 2017 from those ... Read more
Our new coffee-table book, The Pacific Crest Trail: Exploring America’s Wilderness Trail, hits stores today! We’re thrilled to have had the opportunity to tell this amazing and important story about the trail’s history and to work with so many amazing photographers.
Special thanks to Cheryl Strayed for her inspiring ... Read more
Excerpt from The Pacific Crest Trail: Exploring America’s Wilderness Trail
By Mark Larabee and Barney Scout Mann
The PCT has a creation story and it’s filled with interesting tidbits. Our trail’s history is rich with struggle and personalities who overcame them. Here’s a taste from Chapter One of our upcoming ... Read more
On Oct. 11, The Pacific Crest Trail Association and Rizzoli New York will release The Pacific Crest Trail: Exploring America’s Wilderness Trail. This book offers PCT fans the first in-depth history of the trail accompanied by more than 250 photographs that bring the trail experience to life in large, living ... Read more
Your efforts to protect the Pacific Crest Trail are being noticed.
On Wednesday, Ezra Romero of Valley Public Radio, the National Public Radio station for Central California, interviewed PCTA Executive Director and CEO Liz Bergeron about the Pacific Crest Trail Association’s recently completed campaign to save Landers Meadow.
Through more ... Read more
The PCTA recognized two of its outstanding trail maintainers during the July 22 Trail Dirt Live event at the Portland Marriott Downtown Waterfront Hotel. About 85 people attended to hear about the work you are doing to maintain and protect the trail.
The Regional Maintainer of the Year award went ... Read more
Art and the PCT make a perfect match. Composers have graced the world with their music written on the trail. You’ve shown us amazing drawings and paintings over the years as well.
But I have a soft spot for photographs. Images of trail landscapes, plants and animals one might encounter ... Read more
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