The Pacific Crest Trail is one of the most popular hiking routes on the planet, but portions of the Washington state course ...

Each spring, the small mountain hamlet of Idyllwild sees an influx of Pacific Crest Trail hikers who make a stop in town, which is located near the 179th mile of the 2,650-mile trek. The trail ...

What if a simple detour could let Pacific Crest Trail hikers walk to the ocean? That's the idea behind the Crest to Coast Trail, an in-progress path that would provide a path from the PCT to the ...

The 2024 Pacific Crest Trail hiker survey is out, and its data will interest long-distance backpackers. Halfway Anywhere, a blog run by long-distance athlete Tyler Fox, compiles the annual survey (now ...

Evan Miller hiked the 2,653-mile trial from the Mexican border in California to Canada earlier this year and learned a lot ...

Each spring, the small mountain hamlet of Idyllwild in California sees an influx of Pacific Crest Trail hikers who make a stop in town, which is located near the 179th mile of the 2,650-mile trek. The ...

Having Parkinson's disease doesn't mean you can't hike on the Pacific Crest Trail, and this nonprofit organization helps make ...

Tommy Slabaugh and a group of fellow northbound Pacific Crest Trail hikers set up camp for the night on May 9 near Apache Peak, located near mile 169 of the 2,650-mile trek in the San Jacinto ...

At 2,654 miles, the Pacific Crest Trail, or PCT as it's more commonly known in the hiking community, is considered the longest designated hiking trail in the world. Stretching from Campo, CA, near the ...

Cheryl Strayed’s “Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail” (2012) — a best-selling memoir and later a successful film — introduced a large, new audience to the allure of the West’s most ...

Screenwriter Nonny Okwelogu struggles to find diplomatic words to describe the scent of people who have spent months backpacking the Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail. The body odor is “robust, ...