The Pacific Crest Trail is the longest designated hiking trail in the world. It’s divided into 29 sections ranging between 40 and 15 miles long. With more than 100 major mountain passes, some ...

It wasn’t that long ago that aspiring thru-hikers had to explain what, exactly, they were doing planning to hike something like the Appalachian Trail or Pacific Crest Trail. The kinds of distances ...

If you want to walk all 2,650 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail, take a four-day hike up Peru’s Inca Trail to Machu Picchu, or bum around Southeast Asia for a month, just make sure you sit down ...

I hiked the majority of the John Muir Trail myself in 2014, as part of my hike of the Pacific Crest Trail. Even with 700 miles of thru-hiking already under my belt, and a planned 20 percent reduction ...

Frith had no plans to continue long distance hiking, let alone to complete the Triple Crown, when he took his first step on the Pacific Crest Trail. But after missing out on about 300 miles of the ...

Their latest adventure is continuing to hike the Pacific Crest Trail, this time from Washington into Canada. "There are no borders on the trail," Jim said. "People that we're meeting are from all ...

Hiking the PCT, while exhilarating, can be downright dangerous. Preparation and the proper gear are necessary to make the four-to-six-month hike. Quick Facts The Pacific Crest Trail spans three ...