One of the world’s most iconic long-distance hiking trails for hiking enthusiasts is the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT). It stretches 2,650 miles from the Mexican border in California to the Canadian ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This year, 764 thru-hikers completed the survey. That’s only about 9.5% of the 8,000 long-distance permits issued on average each ...

Every year thousands of aspiring Pacific Crest Trail thru-hikers navigate one of the first major obstacles in completing a ...

Natalie “Swell” Dillon, an avid backpacker who lives in Bishop in California’s Eastern Sierra, completed the 2,650-mile Pacific Crest Trail in 2022. And every year since, the occupational therapist — ...

On the morning of Sept. 1, 135 days after leaving San Diego County on the Pacific Crest Trail, Mike Brown hiked through a quiet pine forest and across the Canadian border. For the past four and a half ...

Two California wildfires on opposite ends of the state have closed access to parts of the Pacific Crest Trail. As of Friday, July 12, the Shelly Fire had burned 10,225 acres (16 square miles) and was ...

From coast to coast and deep into the backcountry, these hiking routes span thousands of miles across mountains, deserts, and ...

A majestic oak tree offers cool shade to Mike Brown as he rests in his gray, two-person tent on a late Friday afternoon in April. Brown, a 51-year-old from New Zealand, is about 15 hours away from ...

Where the Pacific Crest Trail is closed in Siskiyou County Where to detour at the north or south ends of the Shelly Fire PCT closure News about the Shelly Fire, burning in the Klamath National Forest ...

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, ...