Some Pacific Crest Trail hikers in California suffered a norovirus outbreak along the trail. Here's how it can spread ...

It takes most most hikers 6 months to finish the Pacific Crest Trail's 2,600-mile journey. This ultrarunner hopes to do it in ...

There have been dozens of reports of Pacific Crest Trail hikers in Southern California falling ill to a highly contagious ...

With the National Park Service tracking a cluster of cases of severe stomach illness in Shenandoah National Park, it's ...

The Pacific Crest Trail Association is asking hikers to complete a health survey after a recent illness struck Southern ...

While mountains in the Western U.S. are taller, the hikes are thought to be less grueling than Eastern trails. The reason for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This year, 764 thru-hikers completed the survey. That’s only about 9.5% of the 8,000 long-distance permits issued on average each ...

Thru-hikers on the 2,650-mile Pacific Crest Trail have long relied on the kindness of strangers to get them through difficult stretches. Trail angels fill water caches, open their doors to smelly ...

Wednesday marks the first day of the Pacific Crest Trail season, with over 50 hikers each day starting their journey north to Canada from the trail's southern terminus along the Mexican border. Over ...

Status can be a funny thing. Of course, it is most obviously expressed through shiny hardware and easily recognizable logos, but it gets far more interesting when you start to observe the more subtle ...