Barney Mann tells the story of William Gray and The PCT’s Third Bestseller in our most recent Communicator Magazine. For more of his articles on the history of the trail, check out the collection at the bottom of our PCT history page.
The first bestseller about the Pacific Crest Trail, ... Read more
Send in your stories from this year. Rodger Dodger will edit them into a book.
PCT Class of ’13,
Want to help me create a PCT ’13 book? Hopefully you are all having fun reminiscing while getting photos/videos to Red Beard for the class video. So I thought now would ... Read more
If you dream of hiking the Pacific Crest Trail, but want a little help, Yama Mountain Gear has launched a program that’ll hook you up with free gear and advice. In return, you’re challenged to give back to the trail. Yama is an ultralight gear company founded by Gen “Magnet” ... Read more
The Keen room in Portland was at capacity, and author Cheryl Strayed had the crowd of 200-plus captivated from her first answer.
This was a PCTA fundraiser on the evening of Nov. 13. at Keen’s headquarters in the Pearl District. Keen is a PCTA corporate partner and Tim McGuire, a ... Read more
Every year someone volunteers to collect, edit and publish a movie about the year’s thru-hiking class. For 2013, Red Beard has streamlined the process at 2013pctclassvideo.com. If the site is an indication, this is going to be an outstanding class video. Submit your pictures and video ASAP. The deadline ... Read more
Gail Storey’s wonderful book about her hike on the Pacific Crest Trail won the National Outdoor Book Award! We’re thrilled. I Promise Not To Suffer: A Fool for Love Hikes the Pacific Crest Trail is Gail’s light-hearted yet heart-felt memoir about her and her husband’s adventures and misadventures, deepening marriage, ... Read more
Long time PCTA volunteer James Daniel Quayle died Sept. 2, 2013, of pancreatic cancer. He was 69. He devoted hundreds of hours working on the PCT in Southern California with the Trail Gorillas.
“Dan was well loved by fellow volunteers,” said Jennifer Tripp, PCTA trail operations manager. “He was a ... Read more
Someone asked us recently where they could find the digitized version of the 2007 Monument 78 register. We used to have a way to navigate to it on our old site. But since our web re-design, we no longer linked to it and it became impossible to find on Google. ... Read more
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