Entries filed under 'Pacific Crest Trail'

1,700 Miles on the Pacific Crest Trail Squeezed into an Entertaining 3-Minute Clip

Thanks to the website Pete Thomas Outdoors for alerting followers to a video created by hiker Kolby "Condor" Kirk that imaginatively sums up the 1,700 miles that Kirk traveled last summer on the 2,650-mile Pacific Crest Trail. In his report, Thomas, former outdoor writer for the Los Angeles Times, includes many details of Kirk's walk, including the fact that the hiker from Bend, Ore., dropped 90 pounds during his 5-month trek. If you have yet to see this clip, enjoy… Photo below from along the ...

Posted by T.D. Wood on January 17, 2012 4:11 PM & Tagged Kolby Kirk, Pacific Crest Trail and video | permalink | Comments



Top Tales from the Trail in 2011

Here's a nod of admiration to the hiking headliners of 2011: Jake Bramante of Kalispell, Mont., age 34, became the first person to hike all 734 miles of trail within Glacier National Park in a single hiking season. Jennifer Pharr Davis of Asheville, N.C., age 28, set a new overall speed record on the Appalachian Trail, covering the 2,181-mile route on a supported hike, north to south, in 46 days, 11 hours, and 20 minutes. She broke the previous mark, held by a male, by 26 hours and averaged 47 ...

Posted by T.D. Wood on December 29, 2011 8:11 PM & Tagged Hiking, Pacific Crest Trail and appalachian trail | permalink | Comments



The Fix Is In: After Nearly 8 Years, the Pacific Crest Trail is Repaired in Washington

The breech, at last, is mended. Nearly 8 years after a huge flood destroyed a major bridge on the Pacific Crest Trail within Washington's Glacier Peak Wilderness, a new route and new bridge are officially open to PCT hikers and stock teams. On Sunday, Sept. 11, in a Promontory Point/Golden Spike kind of moment, members of 2 trail crews cut the final 60 feet of trail to connect the existing PCT with a new 3-mile approach trail that leads to an equally new 270-foot bridge that crosses the ...

Posted by T.D. Wood on October 11, 2011 9:58 PM & Tagged PCT bridge, Pacific Crest Trail, repairs and reroute | permalink | Comments



Rockin' with the Jack Pack: My First PCT Work Crew

If you think hiking the Pacific Crest Trail is a big challenge, consider what it takes to maintain it. Not only is the PCT more than 2,650 miles long, the forces that sculpt its spectacular terrain are also relentlessly efficient at breaking the trail down. On a recent break from my REI copywriting job, I volunteered to join a Pacific Crest Trail Association work crew for a week, grateful that the PCTA does everything from coordinating with government agencies to planning meals. All I had to do ...

Posted by Ken K on September 26, 2011 5:52 PM & Tagged Hiking, Oregon, PCT, PCTA, Pacific Crest Trail, stewardship, trail maintenance and volunteer | permalink | Comments



After 7 Years, Repairs of Storm-Damaged Pacific Crest Trail Nearly Complete

God willin' and the creeks don't rise, literally, a long-closed stretch of the Pacific Crest Trail in Washington will reopen to backcountry travel in 2011. Impassable to all but the hardiest souls since October 2003, when a colossal rainstorm triggered floodwaters that wiped out 8 trail bridges, a 45-mile section of the PCT in Washington's Glacier Peak Wilderness is undergoing its final, and largest, repair project--spanning the wide, fast-moving Suiattle River. Once the gap is closed, probably ...

Posted by T.D. Wood on September 15, 2010 5:02 PM & Tagged Gary Paull, Glacier Peak Wilderness, Mount Baker Snoqualmie National Forest, PCT, PCT detour, Pacific Crest Trail, Suiattle River and trail repair | permalink | Comments