The Pacific Crest Trail Association hires Trail Crew Technical Advisors each field season to help oversee corps crew work, support PCTA volunteers and teach at PCTA Trail Skills Colleges. They are skilled and dedicated trail builders who spend most of their time in the field in support of the PCTA’s ... Read more
The September 2017 fire that swept through the Columbia River Gorge temporarily closed 10 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail and a popular PCT alternate route, the Eagle Creek Trail. Pacific Crest Trail Association volunteers were able to reopen the PCT quickly, but the Eagle Creek Trail, which follows a ... Read more
By Hannah Levy, ACE Corps Crew member
“I know it’s a rock. Don’t you think I know a rock when I see a rock? I spend a lot of time around rocks!”
— Flik, from “A Bug’s Life”
That’s how it felt, working on the PCT. Let me paint you ... Read more
By Johnny Wilke, ACE Corps Crew member
As I sit in ACE’s Ridgecrest, California housing on a September day where the air quality is “unhealthy” again, I stare through smog at China Lake Naval Weapons Station and reminisce about my first project on ACE’s PCT crew.
In June, I returned ... Read more
By Sandra Plato, PCTA Trail Crew Technical Advisor
“Unprecedented.”
“Flexibility.”
“COVID.”
“Wildfires.”
“Grateful.”
Honestly, I should make a 2020 word search with all the words that keep being repeated to me either by work colleagues, the news or the internet. These words are starting to lose their meaning. I want ... Read more
The Great American Outdoors Act, which fully and permanently funds the Land and Water Conservation Fund, is now the law of the land. The president signed the legislation in a ceremony this morning, a formality given Congress’ overwhelming bipartisan and veto-proof support of the law.
Many thanks to ... Read more
By Mary Anne Chute Lynch
Carrying a backpack through a sudden hailstorm, 6-year-old Steve Ghan got his first taste of trail dirt. Blown over by the wind, he face-planted on the beach during a storm so powerful it knocked out a canal bridge.
Unable to get up, Steve lay like ... Read more
(Editor’s note: This story first appeared in the Winter 2019 issue of the PCT Communicator magazine.)
By Max D’Amato
Blue Gatorade, cheese sticks, fresh socks and underwear — these are some of the things that made a lengthy workday on a long hitch go by fast. In between moving granite ... Read more
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