Only The Essential is a 40-minute documentary film made by thru-hikers about thru-hiking the PCT. It is available free online at www.wildconfluence.com
Colin Arisman and Luke Kantola are Pacific Crest Trail thru-hikers and filmmakers. They are the founders of Wild Confluence Films and the producers of the new full-length Pacific ... Read more
Friends of the Pacific Crest Trail,
We’ve told you a lot about the Land & Water Conservation Fund over the years because it has been an important funding source for our work to protect parcels along the Pacific Crest Trail from development and resource extraction.
Yet despite overwhelming bi-partisan support ... Read more
Plan on hiking the PCT in 2016? Start a PCTA fundraiser and encourage your family and friends to follow along on your journey and support the trail you love. It’s quick and easy.
Plus you could be one of three people to win a pair of LEKI poles.
PCTA has ... Read more
When Pacific Northwest mountaineer Lloyd Anderson began his search for an ice axe, the spirit of REI was born. Only finding what he wanted in an Austrian catalog, Lloyd and his wife Mary, along with 21 fellow climbers, established an outdoor gear co-op in 1938. From the beginning, REI was ... Read more
Did you take that magical photo this year while hiking or riding your horse on the PCT? Got a great shot of the scenery, wildlife or volunteers taking care of the trail?
Then enter our annual photo contest.
We’ll select many of the pictures we’ll publish in 2016 from those ... Read more
A new Pacific Crest Trail community cookbook launched and it’s seeking recipes. Imagine a book of innovative and trail-tested recipes, created by you, for you. That’s What’s Cooking on The PCT.
The creation of Martin “Rainman” Leghart, the book aims to be useful (who doesn’t want to take the ... Read more
By Dolly B. Chapman
Our community suffered a huge loss on Aug. 6. 2015, when John Glenn died from injuries he sustained in a work accident at Clover Meadow, where he volunteered with the Sierra National Forest.
John was my dear friend, a mentor to many, and a vigorous master ... Read more
The Fall 2015 issue of the PCT Communicator should be arriving in mailboxes around the world.
We usually make one article from our magazine available online, so check out this page for past stories. Want to receive the next issue of the Communicator? Join PCTA. We send the magazine out ... Read more
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