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(Runtime 1:00)Jaelle Downs was a wilderness ranger for the Cle Elum Ranger District in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness Area. Being out amongst the towering…
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(Runtime 3:32)On a cloudy Sunday morning, a large group of volunteers with axes, shovels, saws and rakes gathered to help clear a trail on Moscow…
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(Runtime 3:45) There's a lot of good ways to start off the week on a Monday morning, but none come close to a beautiful hike through tall grass and pines.…
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Long-distance hiking can be the experience of a lifetime. It also can present dicey to mundane hurdles, like having to hike stretches along busy highways or logging roads. Trail crews are working this summer to improve some enticing regional routes -- that you may or may not have tried -- including the Oregon Coast Trail and the east-west Pacific Northwest Trail from Montana to Washington's Olympic Coast.