As Volunteer Programs Assistant with PCTA, I take great pride in helping coordinate an expansive and high-caliber volunteer program, one that offers sophisticated training opportunities such as our annual Trail Skills College. Over the last six years, PCTA’s Trail Skills College has evolved into a premier trail maintenance education program ... Read more
By Mary Anne Chute Lynch
On his first PCT maintenance trip this season, Bill Carpenter and crew cleared out 21 trees that had fallen during winter, the remnants of a 1995 fire. Another crew cut 150. But all that was a warm-up exercise.
Bill went back three days later to ... Read more
Make sure to soak up summer while it’s still here! Volunteering on a PCTA trail maintenance crew is a great way to spend time in the sun and mountain air, not to mention a chance to do your part in keeping the PCT accessible and safe for hikers and horseback ... Read more
On July 24, Trail Dirt Live is the place to meet other PCTA members, local volunteers, staff and board members and our agency partners. This get together at the Ashland Hills Hotel is a celebration of all you do for the trail. Come learn about how your involvement matters. Doors ... Read more
This article originally appeared in the summer 2015 issue of the PCT Communicator magazine.
PCT travelers, beware as you wander the rough and rugged northern country! Reports abound of roving bands of magically happy faces wearing green hats on the trail. With sharp tools, they just might be conjuring up ... Read more
When Jefferson Public Radio in Ashland, Oregon, asked us to do an on-air segment, we knew just the right person for the job. Our Big Bend Regional Representative, Ian Nelson, lives in Medford and knows the PCT inside and out.
In his 16-minute interview, Surviving a Hot, Dry Summer On ... Read more
Each year the U.S. Forest Service generously gives us funding to help carry out our mission to protect, preserve and promote the Pacific Crest Trail. This year they have granted us $800,000 in federal funds.
Our agreement with the Forest Service states that PCTA will raise an additional $400,000 to ... Read more
Did you ever wonder how a path thousands of miles long, traversing so many different types of public and private land, gets managed, maintained and protected as a single entity? It takes a feat of fancy agreement work to get all the oars rowing in the same direction. The document ... Read more
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