We recommend taking a few minutes to watch this account of near-disaster in the Goat Rocks Wilderness. Snow is easily one of the most dangerous conditions on the Pacific Crest Trail. Stories of hikers falling in the Sierra Nevada in June or being buried by fresh snow in the Cascades ... Read more
Come celebrate the Wilderness Act’s 50th Anniversary!
We have a panel of experts to share the Forest Service perspectives of Wilderness, Trails, and the 50th Anniversary of the Wilderness Act. Come hear:
Claire Lavendel, Pacific Northwest Region Director of Recreation, Lands, Minerals, Fred Way, Regional Trails and Dispersed... Read more
“Two Bar Betty” Wheeler’s report about our summer’s work in the Goat Rocks appears in the winter issue of the PCT Communicator magazine. We didn’t have space to include these pictures in the magazine, but they’re too glorious not to share.... Read more
Found a shuttle company willing to shuttle between @SnoqualmiePass and @StevensPass! http://t.co/uyKR7eXfbR $175 for 2 ppl @WTA_hikers
— Pacific Crest Trail (@PCTAssociation) November 19, 2013
Another piece of the PCT in the checkerboard lands south of Snoqualmie Pass is now permanently protected!
The U.S. Forest Service recently purchased the 480-acre Pyramid Peak property from the Plum Creek Timber Company. The Trust for Public Land was holding the parcel until the Forest Service could secure the ... Read more
Many thanks to Therm-a-Rest for supporting Pacific Crest Trail Association! In addition to financial support, the company provided all five of our regional representatives with new sleep systems this summer. Bob Woods reports back with his first bag nights: a trip talking policy with other PCT managers.
I was very ... 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
Ryan Lawrence and Andrew Post, North Cascades Wilderness Rangers, joined us on one of our trail projects this summer. Didn’t know that our program rocks? Neither did they.
Read their excellent account on the Mt. Adams Institute blog.
... Read moreAndrew and I just finished working on a Pacific Crest Trail Association
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