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Date: Aug. 1 Location: Tolo Springs, 16 miles north of Mt. Thielsen. Days hiked: 11 Days left on first segment: 4 Miles hiked: 176 ...

Date: July 31 Location: north base of Mt Thielsen Days hiked: 10 Days left on first segment: 5 Miles hiked: 160 Avg. Per day. 16.0 ...

Pacific Crest Trail Box score Days hikes: 8 Days left on first segment: 7 Miles hiked: 131 Avg. Per day. 16.4 Percent of journey...

PCT Box Score Date: Monday, July 25 Location: Griffin Pass, south of Mt. Mcgloughlin Elev.: 5800 ft. Weather: Sunny high 80 Days on...

Today’s PCT Box Score Date: Location: Elev.: Weather: 85 sunny Days on trail: 3 Days left to Elk Lake (end of Phase 1): 13 Miles...

Just arrived at first water source in 12 miles. 22-mile day. Way more than we planned but couldn’t find a spring the PCT guide said was...

Today’s PCT Box Score Date: Sat. July 23 Location: Callahan’s Lodge, Siskiyou Summit Elev.: 3,970 ft. Weather: Sunny. 85. Days on...

Today’s PCT Box Score Date: July 22 Location: 12 miles north of Cal-Ore border, near Mt Ashland. Elev.: 5,883 ft. Weather: Sunny 75 ...

Went for a final sail Tuesday on Fern Ridge before turning full attention to the trail. #PCT

After a year of preparation, my brother-in-law and I leave at daybreak Friday for the Oregon-California border and the start of our...

My hiking partner (and bros.-in-law) Glenn Petersen on PCT primer last summer near Mt. Washington #PCT

In 1999, after an easy hike to the top of Little Belknap Crater, I met a young woman named Laura Buhl who was hiking the entire 2,650...

Saturday, July 16, Sally and I created 16 one-gallon zip-lock bags, one for each day of the first two weeks of the hike, Cal-Ore border...

I’ve been training for a year, intensely since late January: p90x for three months, then lots of hiking, Eugene Marathon and stadium...

After a year of planning, training and learning what to pack and what not to pack — bring single-blade Swiss army knife, leave the 10...

As the summer deepens and I start planning our Fall Beachside on the McKenzie Writers Workshop, I’m thumbing through my favorite books on...

AS I PREPARE for the Feb. 25-27 Beachside Writers Workshop in Yachats, the question comes up as it certainly will that weekend. Why...

Note: I’m snowed so until the end of the year I’m running some stories from long ago. This column ran 10 years ago, Nov. 3, 2000, in The...

WALDPORT — Amid 50 mph winds, sideways hail and all sorts of other fun weather, I spoke here Saturday. My book, “American Nightingale”...