Pacific Crest Trail Offers Extremes in Both Weather and Terrain

“The Appalachian Trail is more difficult step-for-step, but the Pacific Crest Trail offers greater extremes.” That is the conventional wisdom. And unlike conventional wisdom on Wall Street, hiking community conventional wisdom is often correct. Indeed the PCT traverses 703 miles of desert before even entering the ‘High Sierra’. While not actually on the PCT most thru-hikers do attempt to go up Mount. Whitney, the highest...

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Big Morongo Canyon Preserve: a haven for hikers

Big Morongo Canyon Preserve: a haven for hikers Situated in the Little San Bernardino Mountains is a treasure called Big Morongo Canyon. The canyon is high in natural diversity due to it being in the middle of Mojave and Colorado Deserts. Big Morongo Canyon’s desert oasis, which is recognized as one of the most important avian habitats in California by the Audubon Society, is home to Cottonwood and Willow Riparian. The Big Morongo Canyon has...

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Pacific Crest Trail Is More Dangerous, Exhilirating Than Appalachian Trail

October is that time of the year. The search and rescue teams in the northern Cascades are busy. Much busier than any such teams in Maine. In both places, thru-hikers are finishing their long journeys. While Maine is as gorgeous of a place as one can find on this earth, it is no match, in one respect, for Washington State in the northern Cascades. Peril. Put simply, the northern Cascades receive more snow than anywhere else in the Lower...

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Which Hiking Movie Will Be Popular–Bryson’s Appalachian Trail Movie or Strayed’s Pacific Crest Trail One

https://www.facebook.com/ATHike/photos/a.142376382395.123009.16218202395/10152395520887396/?type=1&theater I am happy to report to those of you of ‘outdoor ilk’ that the rumors you have heard are not, in fact, rumors. Cheryl Strayed’s bestselling memoir, Wild–From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail’ is in fact now a movie starring Reese Witherspoon. It will be widely available to the public during the...

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Skywalker Appalachian Trail Book #2 in Amazon Non-Fiction Sports and Outdoor

Skywalker–Close Encounters on the Appalachian Trail now has an Amazon #2 ranking on Amazon for non-fiction, sports, outdoor, and camping. It is the tale of 6’11” Bill Walker’s thru-hike of the 2,663 mile Appalachian National Scenic trail running from Georgia to northern Maine which he calls “the journey of a lifetime.” Walker is also the author of  several popular hiking books including Skywalker–Highs...

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