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Pacific Crest Trail National Scenic Trail • Mexico to Canada Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail U.S. Forest Service California/Oregon/Washington Department of Agriculture Pacific Crest Trail National Scenic Trail • Mexico to Canada Welcome History The Trail Today Zigzagging 2,650 miles (4,265 kilometers) from Mexico to Canada, the Pacific Crest Clinton C. Clarke, Harvard graduate, successful The U. S. Forest Service has overall National Scenic Trail (PCT) spans three states and crosses national monuments, oilman and avid Boy Scout leader, dedicated his responsibility for the PCT but trail operation Jeffrey Johnson Jeffrey life to preserving a slice of the American West for is also shared by the National Park Service, national parks, national forests, Bureau of Land Management land, federally future generations. His vision, first articulated Bureau of Land Management, California designated wilderness, state and county parks, and tribal lands. Along the way, it by Catherne Mongomery of Bellingham, State Parks and the PCTA, as well as ascends more than 50 major mountain passes and skirts the shores of innumerable Washington in 1926, was a border-to-border trail managers of the tribal, provincial, state and along mountain ranges in California, Oregon and county lands through which the trail passes. bodies of water. Diversity is a hallmark of the PCT. For example, on its route, Washington “traversing the best scenic areas and For more information, contact the Pacific temperatures can top 100ºF in the deserts and drop below freezing in the mountains. maintaining an absolute wilderness character.” Visionary Clinton Crest Trail Program Manager, U.S. Forest Clarke with early trail It would take millions of dollars, 60 years and Service, Pacific Southwest Regional Office, The trail’s lowest point is 180 feet above sea designated for pedestrian and equestrian pioneer and explorer thousands of hours of labor, but eventually Warren Rogers 1323 Club Drive, Vallejo, CA 94592. level at the Columbia River Gorge between traffic. Bicycles and motorized vehicles are Clarke’s dream would be realized. To create Oregon and Washington; its highest point not permitted. The PCT is open to foot and horse travel and the PCT, Clarke recommended linking several is 13,153 feet at Forester Pass in California’s than 40 YMCA groups, traveling in relays and closed to motorized and mechanized travel Within a three to four hour driving distance existing trails: Washington’s Cascade Crest Trail, Sierra Nevada. In all, the PCT encompasses carrying a logbook over 2,000 miles, hiked, (i.e., bicycles). There are a few locations of San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oregon’s Skyline Trail and California’s John the greatest elevation range of any national explored and evaluated a route for the trail where the PCT is routed on the shoulder of Sacramento, Portland and Seattle, the PCT Muir and Tahoe–Yosemite Trails. scenic trail, traversing six of North America’s from Mexico to Canada. One YMCA staffer in highways and across bridges with motorized is easily accessible and passes through In 1932, Clarke founded the Pacific Crest Trail particular, Warren Rogers, was instrumental in travel. In these instances, recreationists magnificently untamed country. From yucca System Conference to lobby for and plan the exploring sections of trail after they had been should use extreme caution by traveling only Aaron Doss Aaron and cactus in southern California to alpine trail. Founding members of the Conference mapped out—a feat made all the more impressive in daylight and wearing bright clothing. lichen in the Sierra Nevada; from lava flows included the Boy Scouts of America, the Young because Rogers had been crippled by childhood in Oregon to glaciers in Washington; the PCT Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) and a polio. Today’s PCT closely follows the route In some areas, the trail passes through provides a unique opportunity to experience young photographer named Ansel Adams. blazed by Rogers and the relays from the 1930s. privately owned lands. Although travel on the the range of terrain, flora and fauna that During the summers of 1935 through 1938, more trail is not restricted, users need to respect characterizes the western United States. Crater Lake, OR On October 2, 1968, President Lyndon Johnson the rights of the landowners. signed the National Trails System Act, which named the Appalachian Trail and the PCT as Wilderness permits are required for the first national scenic trails. The Act defined most of the congressionally designated Gail Lowe Gail Deems C. Burton national scenic trails as “…extended trails so wildernesses through which the trail passes. Mojave Desert near Tehachapi, CA located as to provide for maximum outdoor In cooperation with federal agencies, the recreation potential and for the conservation and PCTA issues wilderness permits for trips seven ecozones: alpine tundra (above enjoyment of the nationally significant scenic, of 500 or more continuous miles in a single timberline); subalpine forest; upper montane historic, natural, or cultural qualities of the areas trip on the PCT. Trail users planning to stay forest; lower montane forest; upper Sonoran through which such trails may pass.” in developed campgrounds may be able to (oak woodland, chaparral/grassland); reserve campsites in advance. For detailed and lower Sonoran (Mojave/Sonoran Over the next 20 years, land management information on a particular location, please Deserts). Wildlife is abundant as the PCT agencies, the Pacific Crest Trail Association contact that recreation site directly. weaves through the habitat of rattlesnakes, (PCTA), other organizations and countless salamanders, eagles, roadrunners, coyotes, volunteers constructed nearly 1,000 miles of marmots, bear, elk, mountain goats, bobcats, Deems C. Burton trail. In 1993, at a golden spike ceremony in cougars and other species. The trail is Soledad Canyon, CA, the PCT was officially Glacier Peak Wilderness, WA PCT sign in Washington being taken back by nature declared complete. Community, Magic, and Culture of the PCT The PCT is not simply a footpath from own. Usually the term “trail magic” is used Mexico to Canada; it is a trail that connects to describe the kindness of strangers, who landscapes, communities, and people. Each sometimes come to be known as “trail angels.” Lennox Joanne year, thousands of people from all over the Trail magic may be as basic as the gift of a cold world and from all walks of life embark on drink at a road crossing, or a ride into town PCT journeys. These journeys may last a few from a trailhead. It may be a home cooked Henzell Thunder” “Rolling John hours, a few days, or a few months. meal, a clean pair of socks, or a soft bed to sleep on for the night. It may be anything that Among the most inspiring PCT journeys are infuses a hiker or rider with gratitude and faith those that encompass the trail’s entire 2,650- in the human spirit. mile length. Around springtime, at the PCT’s southern terminus near Campo, CA, several Another core aspect of PCT life is the adoption hundred northbound hopefuls begin the of “trail names.” Thru-hikers, thru-riders and adventure of a lifetime: a thru-hike. A thru- others who trek long distances along the PCT hike is a continuous journey along the length often give themselves (or are given) new names of the PCT – a walk or horseback ride from – names that convey personal characteristics, Mexico to Canada, or from Canada to Mexico. personify the PCT’s wonders, have a spiritual Along the way, thru-hikers and thru-riders meaning, or are simply funny. Regardless of experience the serenity and fullness of life at their origins, trail names are another way “Cucumber Boy” near Mount Baden-Powell, CA nature’s cadence and meet residents of nearby that trail users forge a community and make communities, who sometimes perform acts of connections – with nature and each other. Join us for a peek into trail journals: profound generosity (called trail magic). Hopi Horse near North Cinder Peak with Mount Jefferson in the background, Mount Jefferson Wilderness, OR To communicate up and down the trail, “The fact that a footpath exists that stretches from “The forest this morning reminded me of an over- For many PCT users, trail magic is tangible hikers and riders take to the Internet, social Mexico to Canada for 2,650 miles through mostly sized playroom [Crater Lake, OR]. Logs lay fallen “The three of us watched in silence as the last a schedule, but not of the scenery, horseback evidence that the trail brings people together media and blogs. They text one another. untrammeled wild landscape still astonishes me. across the earth as though two giants had just begun sliver of the sun slipped below the horizon [Mount riding or outdoor life. We have a lot of fun when in unique ways and has a culture all of its They send letters ahead. And they make That I was able to walk it (over 4 months and a game of Pickup Sticks. Electric-colored mushrooms Whitney, CA]. We talked as it fell, but at that people we meet ask us where we are going, or great use of the more rustic 6,300,000 steps!) seems like a dream. But the fact exploded from beneath the dirt in purple, yellow, moment, as if on cue, our words disappeared, lost where we rode in from. I just say, Canada, or trail registers, leaving notes to that my experiences on the PCT, and subsequently and red. The trees, their trunks covered in knobs, in the awe, stolen by the beauty. Sometimes you Mexico, and grin, waiting for the next question, others who may be coming up with the PCTA, changed the course of my life is a resembled boa constrictors finishing a recent meal.
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