By Justin Brimer, PCTA trail crew technical advisor
As trail maintainers, we use many different tools to take care of the PCT. If you are a regular PCTA volunteer, you know how fun and rewarding it is to show up—rain or shine—to dig, lop, lift, sweat and get dirty for ... Read more
By Krystian “Snap” Repolona, 2017 P3 Hiker
“You can’t quit today. You can quit tomorrow, but at midnight, tomorrow becomes today, and you can’t quit today. You can quit tomorrow.”
I vividly remember seeing these words written on a shelter wall after a notably long day on my Appalachian ... Read more
... Read more“Nothing can be done well at a speed of forty miles a day …. Far more time should be taken. Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer. Camp out among the grass and gentians of glacier meadows, in craggy garden nooks full of Nature’s
The Inyo National Forest, through a forest order, is closing segments of the Rush Creek Trail for public safety from June 30 through Sept. 1, 2017.
The wet winter of 2016-2017, with more than 180 percent of average annual precipitation ... Read more
Sure, your legs, back and arms might be feeling the burn as you navigate the Pacific Crest trail, but at the end of a long day of logging miles, the real heroes are your feet. Without them, you wouldn’t make it very far. If you have daily mileage goals or ... Read more
Terminus Tom was our first PCT southern terminus host. He’s a former thru-hiker from the Class of 2014. We can’t thank him enough for volunteering! We’re grateful for this partnership with Cleveland National Forest. The trail is far more popular than it used to be and it’s together, as an ... Read more
Thru-hiking is tattooed on Lint Bunting’s soul and pretty much all over his body (the PCT is on his upper leg). Only a small number of people thru-hike as often as Lint does. In the long-distance hiking world, we often list the acronyms and years that we hiked the trail. ... Read more
NEWS UPDATE: Willamette National Forest announced on August 7 that the Pacific Crest Trail and most of the rest of Mt. Jefferson will be closed during the eclipse because of the Whitewater Fire. Read the announcement. We’re sorry, but you’ll want to go elsewhere for the eclipse.
A full solar ... Read more
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