Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. It was the end of a long, hot day of backpacking. My hiking companions Erik Petersen and Parker ...

Six years ago, I had newly discovered the tenkara approach to fly-fishing, and I was eager to get into more wilderness areas to try it out. I had been in and around wilderness most of my life, but I ...

CARSON, Wash. (AP) Will Rossi of Portland was looking to take advantage of the final bits of summer. So he and his friends decided on Thomas Lake trail No. 111 in Indian Heaven Wilderness. "This is my ...

Few moments cry out for the use of vacation time more than warm and sunny days in September and October in Oregon’s Cascade Mountain wilderness areas. The trails, lakes and peaks of Oregon’s most ...

Westslope cutthroat trout — like this colored-up, 15-inch male — are a common find in Idaho’s high-elevation fisheries. Jordan Rodriguez Huffing and puffing, my friend Clayton and I crested the saddle ...

Fall nights in the Pecos Wilderness are long and cool, and even if the closest human is miles away, the sounds echoing through the Sangre de Cristo Mountains let you know you are not alone. Over four ...