Hardesty Mountain News Today

Celebrate Earth Day, public lands protections at five Central Oregon hiking destinations.

She chose one of Oregon’s most grueling challenges.  In the early morning darkness of Aug. 1, the 35-year-old Eugene resident laced up her shoes at the Oregon-California border and stepped onto the Pacific Crest Trail. Then she started running. Over the next week, Halnon ran up mountains and down river valleys, through a frigid thunderstorm and boiling temperatures, felt her shins ache and feet swell up on 17-hour days in remote wilderness. When she reached the Washington border on Aug....