This year’s class of PCT thru-hikers will have to find a new place to stop and rest after descending the San Gabriel Mountains northeast of Los Angeles. Hiker Heaven, the Agua Dulce oasis that is woven into nearly two decades of PCT lore, is no longer an option.
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Get even more pumped for hiking season this year! Enter to win this pretty stellar pile of ultralight backpacking gear from Platypus Hydration, Therm-a-Rest, MSR, PackTowl and Scarpa! Special thanks to Platypus for being the title sponsor and for making this big-pile-of-gear contest happen. They’re our favorite partner that’s also ... Read more
Justin “Trauma” Lichter and Shawn “Pepper” Forry completed a winter thru-hike of the Pacific Crest Trail today. They generously sent us this video. They started their hike on October 21, 2014 and finished March 1, 2015 for a total of 132 days. That a remarkably fast hike considering the conditions ... Read more
Justin Lichter and Shawn Forry are 180 miles from the Mexican border and the completion of their remarkable winter thru-hike of the Pacific Crest Trail. They started in October and have been snowshoeing, skiing and hiking ever since.
Journeys on the PCT are remarkably personal. The trail is truly a ... Read more
The Pacific Crest Trail is famous for very good reasons. It makes “best hike” lists all the time, in part because it crosses many amazing ecosystems and landscapes, offering visitors the opportunity to see, smell and feel the wild in many ways.
Our wild places remain because we’ve chosen to ... Read more
Megan Wargo became the PCTA’s first Land Protection Director on Jan. 26 and will oversee the expansion of a program dedicated to protecting the landscape and trail miles that are still held by private landowners.
Megan’s hiring, funded by a generous private donation to PCTA, is in line with PCTA’s ... Read more
Southern California PCT enthusiasts gathered Saturday, Jan. 17, for the second Trail Dirt Live event.
Held at the Angeles National Forest Supervisor’s offices in Arcadia, PCTA members, volunteers, board members and staff got together to talk about the trail, the state of PCTA and to honor a couple of special ... Read more
It is with great pleasure we welcome Bill Hawley back to our staff in a new capacity, as Pacific Crest Trail Association’s North Cascades Regional Representative.
Bill was out hiking the PCT “back before it was the PCT,” and has been a life-long devotee. In the last several years Bill ... Read more
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