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 Overview of the Pacific Crest Trail
4300
Km in length, the PCT takes hikers from the USA/Mexican Border to Manning
Park in Canada. It is one of three trails that cross the length of the USA. The
Pacific Crest Trail begins in the Sonoran and Mojave deserts. It soon
climbs over the spectacular shoulders of
Sierra
Nevada Mountains
and
Cascade
Mountains.
Crossing the Sonora and Mojave deserts are tough! Water
is usually scarce and the heat is often unrelenting.
In the high Sierra, the trail crosses wilderness unbroken by roads for 200 miles.
From here, the trail weaves it way through the
Cascade Range of northern California, Oregon and Washington,
the trail explores a string of wildernesses in volcanic landscape.
With winter lurking around the corner, hikers often
find themselves racing to beat the cold winds and storms of the
winter storms of the Cascade Mountains before
entering
Canada
at Manning Park.
Inspired in
the 1930s by the idea of a long-distance mountain trail, citizen activists
worked with the Forest Service to establish the trail. With its completion in
1969, it passes through 24 national forests, seven national parks and 33
wildernesses.
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