By Ben Echt and Roger Sweet
Coming from backgrounds of all shapes and sizes, it’s safe to say we were mostly prepared for being unprepared. Our 11-person team, Gold 4 of AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps, set off on an amazing adventure, not through space and time, but to the ... Read more
The Pacific Crest Trail Association has hired two experts to lead the organization’s outreach efforts.
In January, Scott Wilkinson became the PCTA’s first director of communications and marketing, a position funded by a $250,000, three-year grant from the Vancouver, Washington-based M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust. The association also hired Mark Larabee ... Read more
It makes sense that the folks at Crux Fermentation Project, a popular small-batch brewery in central Oregon, felt a kinship to the Pacific Crest Trail.
Given that PCT travelers are staple customers — especially during the summer months when trail hikers and horseback riders flock to the Cascades — they ... Read more
It was a wool hiking sock with a safety pin poked through the toe, stuck to a bush hanging over the trail near Milk Creek in the middle of Glacier Peak Wilderness. The sock ... Read more
By Emmanuel Forge
This time last year I was sitting on a bit of a secret. I was planning to hike the Pacific Crest Trail. But I couldn’t exactly shout it from the rooftops. I had a job to keep through March.
Some days after work I’d slap on my ... Read more
Tax season is here! If you plan on using H&R Block to prepare your taxes, you can help PCTA receive a $20 contribution.
H&R Block will donate $20 to PCTA each time a new client has their taxes prepared at a local H&R Block office and presents this referral form.... Read more
Under the warm light of the Mission Inn’s Spanish Art Gallery in Riverside, California, an emotional crowd watched as the Pacific Crest Trail Association thanked and honored the legendary Pete Fish for his 20-plus years of volunteer work on the Pacific Crest Trail. It was the highlight of an evening ... Read more
By Dan Hane
It is another day of my journey along the Pacific Crest Trail.
... Read moreMiserable, miserable day. I should have my head examined for being out here in this kind of weather. I leave camp this morning with all of my rain gear on, my driest pair of wet