As Backpacker's 2023 Pacific Crest Trail correspondent, David Gleisner is reporting on this year's PCT season as he attempts a thru-hike of his own We first met the Codgers on top of Trail Pass, as ...

Stretching a whopping 2,650 miles from the Mexican border to Canada, the Pacific Crest Trail is one of the most iconic and ...

“Have you ever heard of the cowboy straddle?” my partner, Emanuel, asked. Without waiting for a reply, he hoisted himself onto a log suspended above a rushing stream and began using branches on either ...

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 ...

WITH SOME DELAYS. A MAN WHO WENT MISSING WHILE SNOWSHOEING WAS FOUND SAFE THANKS TO SEARCH AND RESCUE CREWS IN NEVADA COUNTY. THE NEVADA COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE SAYS THE MAN GOT LOST NEAR THE PACIFIC ...

PORTOLA, Calif. — The rutted dirt road twisted ever skyward through miles of lonely pine trees and then abruptly ended at the base of a mountain peak. The workers parked their truck, hoisted a ...

SANTA CRUZ — The Pacific Crest Trail winds through blistering desert, ragged mountains and dense forest on its 2,653-mile journey from California’s southern border to Canada. Thousands of hikers ...

A Quincy-based nonprofit of trail builders is set to break ground on 10 miles of new trail just east of Truckee in North Lake Tahoe this spring. It’s the southernmost leg in a much larger project that ...