Pacific Crest Trail volunteers have many motivations for their service. If you ask volunteers what inspires them most I believe many of them would tell you that the camaraderie of their fellow volunteers keeps them coming back year after year.
There are many incredible volunteer crews up and down the ... Read more
On Monday, two weeks before the first campers would arrive, counselors at the Big Lake Youth Camp about a quarter mile off the Pacific Crest Trail in the Oregon Cascades readied the grounds and the cabins that will be summer home to up to 200 kids and teenagers each week.... Read more
PCT Days is set for Aug. 17-19, 2018, in Cascade Locks, Oregon! It’ll be a fun weekend celebrating the Pacific Crest Trail. Join friends old and new for a few days of camping on Thunder Island, movies, talks, a gear fair, games, hiking and more. This event is put on ... Read more
After 55 volunteer crews from the PCTA’s Mount Hood Chapter put in nearly 5,000 hours, the Pacific Crest Trail and other nearby trails in the Columbia River Gorge are open to hikers for the first time since the Eagle Creek Fire erupted last fall.
“The work has seemed daunting at ... Read more
Most who have hiked the Pacific Crest Trail or worked on trail maintenance crews know that use of the trail continues to increase each year.
On one hand, this is great—more people are outside being active, enjoying the outdoors, appreciating the PCT and the places that the trail leads them. ... Read more
By Dave Moore
Dennis Washburn, a stalwart volunteer with the PCTA’s Will Work for Krumms Trail Crew, passed away on 28 April. He was 75.
Dennis started volunteering with the PCTA in 2004, after he and his wife, Carol, moved to Brentwood, California. Dennis loved backpacking in the Sierra ... Read more
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What’s amazing about the Pacific Crest Trail Association is the simple fact that so many people care about the trail.
That ... Read more
The majestic Pacific Crest Trail through the Goat Rocks Wilderness provides the backdrop for this year’s top photograph in the Pacific Crest Trail Association’s annual photo contest. Photographer Clare Major titled the picture “Thru-rider on Knife’s Edge,” but the image ... Read more